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Share Your Family Stories: One Week Only ~ Save 50% on All Research, Write, Connect Courses!
Are you ready to serve up amazing family stories this coming Thanksgiving weekend? Perhaps you won’t be ready to have all your stories ready to write a full book, but you can get started NOW and determine how to collect those stories when you get together with family.
I can help you turn those memories made at the Thanksgiving table (whether past or present) into shareable stories.
For one week only, I am offering an unprecedented discount on the courses offered through my online education website, Research, Write, Connect.
Through 24 November, 2018, save 50% on any course by using coupon code Early50 at checkout.
All courses are self-paced, meaning, there are no start and end dates. Materials are organized into weekly lessons, and you can begin your course immediately after purchase or whenever it is convenient for your schedule! Learn from an instructor who is a working writer and published author, and has a proven track record of success with her online courses!
Available Courses
Write Stuff I: Telling the Story, regularly priced at $149.00 USD, now just $74.50 USD – click HERE to start today! Learn the skills to finally go from blank page to shareable personal or family stories. View a full description here.
Write Stuff II: Advancing the Story, regularly priced at $149.00 USD, now just $74.50 USD – click HERE to start today! Take your family history skills to the next level and finish the story! View a full description here.
Discovering Genealogy, regularly priced at $87.00 USD, now just $43.50 USD – click HERE to start today! Learn the skills you need to start building your family tree and trace your roots! View a full description here.
Write Stuff: Telling the Story – Homeschool Version, regularly priced at $149.00 USD, now just $74.50 USD – click HERE to start today! Designed for students to build writing skills and share stories. View a full description here.
Sale valid through Saturday, November 24, 2018, 11:59 PM Eastern time.
Click here to register today and take advantage of this one week only offer!
Start sharing those stories NOW!
Copyright 2018, Lisa A. Alzo, All Rights Reserved.
Black Friday Special – Save an Extra $10 on The Write Stuff Genealogy Writing Intensive Spring 2017!
It’s back! Our popular family history writing course, The Write Stuff, returns for the Spring 2017 season starting January 2nd! Come join me, Lisa Alzo and my colleague, Thomas MacEntee on a a six-week collaborative, results-driven, group coaching environment focused on writing family history narratives. And for BLACK FRIDAY ONLY, save an extra $10 on your registration fee!
Is “write up all of my years of genealogy research” one of your goals for 2017? Are you looking for more than just the standard genealogy report . . . do you want something that you can publish and share with family? Are you interested in crafting ancestor profiles and allowing their stories to “pop” off the page? Then you need to be a part of The Write Stuff – a Genealogy Intensive™ offering.
Here are the details from the HackGenealogy Website:
- Learn writing skills and techniques to produce a quality family history; build on the skills each week.
- Focus on getting a working draft.
- Receive constructive and helpful feedback.
- Overcome fears and anxiety about writing.
- Have fun!
- Video: Setting Writing Goals
- Assignment #1
- Facebook Group
- Introductions
- Participants ask questions on assignment; share resources; respond to prompts from instructor (2 prompts each week).
- Online Session: Introductions, Goal Setting and Review Assignment #1
9 January 2017 via GoToTraining
9:00 pm EDT / 8:00 pm CDT 1 Hour, recorded.
Topic: What do you want to accomplish? What’s important to you? What does writing success look like to you?
- Video: Plot, Plan, and Scheme: Storyboard Your Family History Project
- Assignment #2
- Storyboard your project idea. Write by hand on index cards and then scan them or photograph them to share; or use a program such as Scrivener or Index Card App or StorySkeleton.
- Facebook Group:
- Participants ask questions on assignment; share resources; respond to prompts from instructor (2 prompts each week).
- Video: Tap into Family Treasures
- Assignment #3
- Tap into Family Treasures: write 500 words using a photo or document or heirloom or keepsake as your prompt. Instructor will provide a sample.
- Facebook Group:
- Participants ask questions on assignment; share resources; respond to prompts from instructor (2 prompts each week).
- Online Session: Review Assignments #2 and #3
23 January 2017 via GoToTraining
9:00 pm EDT / 8:00 pm CDT 1 Hour, recorded.
Topic: Review Assignments #2 and #3.
- Video: Character Development through Oral History and Profile
- Assignment #4
- Facebook Group:
- Participants ask questions on assignment; share resources; respond to prompts from instructor (2 prompts each week).
- Video: Shaping Your Story Using Plot and Structure
- Assignment #5
- Putting it all together. Building on the skills you learned in the previous weeks, and using your outline, write a 1200 word narrative (approximately 2 pages) about your ancestor or family. Instructor will provide an example.
- Facebook Group:
- Participants ask questions on assignment; share resources; respond to prompts from instructor (2 prompts each week).
- Online Session: Review Assignments #4 and #5, Wrap-Up.
13 February 2017 via GoToTraining
9:00 pm EST / 8:00 pm CST 1 Hour, recorded
Topic: Review Assignments #4 and #5 and Wrap-Up.
- Video: Top Ten Tips for Family History Writing
- Facebook Group:
- Thank you, good-byes, next steps

Copyright 2016, Lisa A. Alzo and Thomas MacEntee, All Rights Reserved
Don’t Miss It! Black Friday Flash Sale at Hack Genealogy – 50% Off Digital Downloads
Here’s your chance to save 50% off of digital downloads of Hack Genealogy Boot Camp sessions – such as Evernote, Self-Publishing, Scrivener, and more!
Here is the information provided by Hack Genealogy.
- Blogger Boot Camp
- Evernote Boot Camp
- Self-Publishing Boot Camp
- Genealogy Writing Boot Camp
- Get Your Genealogy Groove Back Boot Camp
- Newspaper Research Strategies Boot Camp
- Research Right: Tracking and Evaluating Your Genealogy Research Boot Camp
- Scrivener Mini-Boot Camp: Getting Started with Scrivener