Genealogy Workshop: Shaping your Family Research

ONLINE Genealogy Workshop Spinning Gold: Shaping your Family Research into Compelling Stories with Christine Halvorson Hosted Sunday, September 20 In this workshop, local author Chris Halvorson inspires you to dust off your boxes of family memorabilia and start mining them for golden stories - true or not. Last Fall, Halvorson published a young adult novel, Inmate, very loosely based on her family. She will focus on that book's genesis, which was her curiosity about the technology behind such websites as ancestry.com. Halvorson will share her research process, the mistakes she's made, and a bit about the story-writing process. "The work that goes into genealogical research so often never see the light of day beyond, maybe, family members," she says. "Every family has secrets and stories to tell. It's a shame to let them molder unseen." If you’d like to give the Portsmouth Public Library feedback on our programming, and enter to win a library book bag, please fill out a brief Event Feedback Form here: https://forms.gle/uLaj2MrLtenEZmvH7 Want to learn about more upcoming events at the library? Sign up for our monthly newsletter here: https://www.cityofportsmouth.com/libr...