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Zoom information will be sent out the week before the meeting to JGSMD members. So you have your stack of documents. How do you make them "come to life"? What hints do they hold that allow you to "see" your ancestors and understand them? Lisa Belkin is a longtime journalist, who began with a few documents a decade ago and used them to write Genealogy of a Murder, a book spanning four families, three generations, and... one murder. "It reads like fiction" reviewers say, and yet every word is documented and true. If your goal is not just to fill the tree, find the facts, break the brick wall, but also to weave what you learn into a compelling narrative tale, Belkin will show you where to look and how to start. Known for tales that are deeply researched and artfully told, Lisa Belkin’s career spans nearly three decades at The New York Times (mostly at the Magazine, also as creator of the Life’s Work column and Motherlode blog) and four narrative non-fiction books (including her latest, GENEALOGY OF A MURDER, and also SHOW ME A HERO, which became an Golden Globe award winning HBO miniseries.) When not writing narrative non-fiction, she is teaching it, at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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