FREE
Lafayette Library, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, December 14, 2024, 10:30 – 12:30
Gilroy Library, 350 W. Sixth Street, Gilroy, CA, February 8, 2025, 1PM-3PM
San Leandro Library, 300 Estudillo Ave, San Leandro, Feb 23, 2025, 1:30 – 3:30
Alameda Main Library, 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, May 3, 2025, 1 – 3PM
Palo Alto Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road. Palo Alto, May 10, 2025, 1- 3PM
What You Will Learn
- Utilize AI for oral history, scanning, photo restoration, and management
- Explore case studies for weaving family sagas with multimedia
- Discover free resources and best practices for legacy preservation
- Learn tools for creating a digital family heritage library
Abstract
How To Digitize & Document Your Family History
Dive into a realm where physical artifacts meet virtual storytelling. This session immerses you in the art of utilizing artificial intelligence for oral history creation, scanning, photo restoration, photo management, movie making and storytelling. Explore real-life case studies illustrating how to intricately weave your family’s saga using multimedia methodologies. Discover invaluable free resources and best practices to preserve your family’s legacy. By session end, you’ll learn about tools and techniques to create a digital family heritage library, that will be a timeless treasure for generations to come.
About The Speaker: Ron Chan
Ron is a seasoned lecturer on family history documentation principles, captivating audiences worldwide at Genealogy Workshops and libraries. As a published genealogy author, he has a passion for storytelling, teaching innovative methods to breathe life into ancestral tales. Ron is the Founder of the Bay Area Chinese Genealogy Group, dedicated to preserving ancestral stories. He’s also a co-founder of the Chinese American GI Project, ensuring the legacies of veterans are not lost, forgotten or ignored. Ron shares with you how to capture and share family struggles of the past so future generations embrace, remember and learn from those who came before.
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!