FREE
El Cerrito Library 6510 Stockton Ave, El Cerrito, Jan 20, 11AM – 1PM
Dougherty Station Library 17017 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon, March 2, 11AM – 1PM
Fremont Library 2400 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont, March 16, 11AM – 1PM
Saratoga Library 13650 Saratoga Ave, Saratoga, April 14, 1PM – 3PM
Los Altos Library 13 S San Antonio RD, Los Altos, April 27, 11AM – 1PM
Cupertino Library 10800 Torre Ave, Cupertino, May 4, 11AM – 1PM
Milpitas Library 160 N Main St, Milpitas, May 12, 11AM – 1PM
Castro Valley Library 3600 Norbridge Ave, Castro Valley, May 19, 2PM – 4PM
San Francisco Library 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, May 22, 1:10PM – 2PM
What You Will Learn
•Key resources, best practices, and tips on how to create your own multimedia family legacy.
•“How to” create an oral history using artificial intelligence, scan and restore photos, free/cost effective multimedia conversion resources.
•Demonstrate a digital family history book.
Abstract
How To Digitize & Document Your Family History
This session takes you into the physical and virtual world on how to build a multimedia family library. We will demonstrate and teach “how to” create an oral history using artificial intelligence, scan and restore photos, reveal free/cost effective multimedia conversion resources, story telling, movie making, and demo a digital family history book. You will walk away knowing key resources, best practices, and tips on how to create your own family legacy.
About The Speaker: Ron Chan
Ron is a published genealogy author, presenting and teaching how to create novel and compelling ways to bring family history to life at conferences in both the US and China. He is Founder and Executive Director of the Bay Area Chinese Genealogy Group, whose mission is to share, educate and tell the story and struggles of the past, so future generations may know their roots.
Seminar Patron Feedback
- Very pertinent and interesting information. Optics very nice. Personal story. Made it very relatable.”
- “Inspirational! Technically wonderful.”
- “Well delivered, comprehensive, heartfelt sharing of personal stories, links, and resources.”
- “This is exactly what I was looking for my family stories.”
- “Great ideas and tools for writing and displaying history / story telling”.
- “Comprehensive, intelligently presented, touching, very impressive!”
- “Very organized and inspiring. All materials were accessible and easy to understand. Hard for me not to cry… So personal.”
- ‘Thorough, practical, personal, methodically prepared.”
- “Comprehensive, intelligently presented, touching, very impressive!
- “Presenter was very well organized, engaging, good teacher/educator qualities and communication.”
I finished my family story! I even included an Author’s Note, Reviews, Table of Contents, changed the font for easier reading. It ended up 7 chapters, over 90 personal photos, and less than 50 pages.
Congrats on saving memories of the past for the future!