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HYBRID Fable or Fact? Verifying Old Family Stories

Family Storytelling Series (Zoom)
2026-09-08 14:00:00 2026-09-08 15:00:00 America/Chicago HYBRID Fable or Fact? Verifying Old Family Stories Family history is about more than ancestor trees and pedigree charts. Join us for a series of live webinars on topics designed to help you capture and tell the stories of your ancestors. Ela Area Public Library -

Tuesday, September 08
2:00pm - 3:00pm

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Family history is about more than ancestor trees and pedigree charts. Join us for a series of live webinars on topics designed to help you capture and tell the stories of your ancestors.

Speaker: Sunny Jane Morton

Don’t you wish you knew just HOW true certain family stories are? Though you may never be able to fully prove (or disprove) some stories, this lecture demonstrates an approach for “de-mythifying” handed-down tales into truer ones that may be even more compelling. See the results for case studies from the speaker's own family tree: that of an unlikely hero and an immigrant scoundrel. 

If you would prefer to watch the webinar at the Library with our Genealogy Interest Group use the click here to attend In Person.

AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Meetings | Lectures and Performances |

TAGS: | genealogy |

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