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Killacranky-Turning History Into a Book
I had all of the articles, and I presented them word for word. I did use Claude (AI) to help sort through all of the stories and suggest an organizational spine for the book. This episode goes…
Killacranky-Annotated Memoir - Sorting Fact From Fiction
In presenting the articles my great-great-grandfather wrote, I had to separate fact from fiction. He loved to embellish, like any good southerner, with his tall tales. I used the usual sources on…
Killacranky-What do you Do When an Ancestor Writes Something Controversial?
Almost every family history runs into it eventually: an ancestor who wrote something you can’t defend. This episode is about the hardest editorial decision there is — and why erasing the ugly parts…
Killacranky-Writing a Civil War Memoir
Names and dates tell you a person existed. They don’t introduce you to who that person was. In this episode about a book I have published on one of my two times great-grandfathers' military writings,…
How to Answer AI Questions on KDP
KDP (the Amazon self-publishing platform) now asks questions about how AI has helped with a book's content. In writing the Loose Pearls memoir of my paternal grandparents, I definitely used AI for…
How to Write the Family Letter Memoir Manuscript
AI did suggest a grouping of parts and the suggested manuscript, but AI makes huge assumptions about the content unless you tell it not to or to force it to notice its own assumptions. This video…
How to Use AI for a Family Memoir
548 letters is a huge archive. So, yes, it took me 8 years to figure out how to turn all these letters into a book. With the advent of AI tools, I felt I had a way to help me manage them and make…
Digitizing the 548 Fragile WWII Letters
Before the writing, before the organizing — preservation. In this first method episode, Julie shares how she digitized over 500 wartime letters between her grandparents Woodrow and Vera Bonner,…
The Eight Week Pearl Hunt: A WWII Soldier Story
In February 1946, my paternal grandfather, Woodrow Bonner, found a string of cultured pearls in a shop in Kobe and wrote to my grandmother, Vera, that he was going to try to buy them. He couldn't.…
Preserving Stories are Priceless - My First Book!
If you google the phrase "family history questions" you can find many pages that can give you ideas about what to share with future generations of your family. I was struck by one question that asked…
Episode 5 - Move Me Lord
In 1971, my paternal grandmother, Vera Dors (Harper) Bonner, wrote a song with her niece, Norma (Bonner) Elmore. Norma wrote the music, and Vera wrote the lyrics. Later, the song was recorded as a…
Episode 4 - How to Save Family History Audio
Welcome to Keep the Dash Alive. I’m your host, Julie Bonner, and today we explore recording family voices. These are some of the coolest family history assets you will ever produce! If you have any…
Episode 3 - How DNA Helped Identify a Half Sibling
This the Keep the Dash Alive Podcast. This episode explores how DNA analysis helped me connect to a previously unknown half sibling in my extended family!
Episode 2 - How to Use GPS Technology for Family History
GPS applications on your smartphone can be a great boost to your family history research. Along with this podcast episode, I also have a video about GPS technology and family research on the Keep The…
Episode 1 - Boots on the Ground Family Research
Technology has brought us great online resources, but, you never know what you might find with your boots on the ground. Follow in your family footsteps to sometimes discover a nugget that would have…
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