Building the Academy
for Essential Genealogy
By 2020, my plan was to become an Edupreneur and share what I know about writing and genealogy with others. This plan became a reality during the first COVID epidemic. I wanted to expand my online teaching skills and build a Preserving Family History Academy. During the years 2020 to 2023, I took a deep dive into learning how to create, manage and promote my online academy - it all began with my enrolment in Sarah Cordiner's 'Concept to Course' 30-day Coaching Program. As of March 2024 I have 30 courses in my academy - that range from free 5-day challenges to full coaching courses to a membership subscription!
The Academy is designed as a Pathway to Success for the Essential Genealogist. The courses take you on a journey from a novice family tree researcher to a skilled ancestral storyteller. There are heroes and heroines in our ancestry, with stories to tell; we just need to find them. Take your ancestral story writing to new heights as you learn the basics of genealogy research and how to create, polish, and present your ancestral stories online.
The courses will help you learn how to share your stories as an ancestral profile, an article, a blog post, or an ebook.
Ancestry in the Age of AI
I have now embraced the world of artificial intelligence to provide me with assistance on my own journey of discovery about my ancestral past. Chat GPT became my genealogy assistant earlier this year, and I now make frequent use of it as a Generative Pre-Trained Transformer of natural human language to generate a response.
The use of Chat GPT and other AI tools is now built into my courseware to enable family historians to overcome barriers to writing. Enrolled participants can learn how to transform their genealogy research into captivating narratives to engage their family and friends.
I have created a new course called Unlock Ancestral Storytelling, which features the use of this platform, WeAre [...] to bring success to your journey from researching as a genealogist to writing and sharing ancestral archives. In this course, you will learn how to transform family history preservation into an archived legacy.