FREE
December 16, 2025, Tuesday. Family Search Center (Downstairs), 4766 Lincoln Ave, Oakland, CA, 12noon – 2:15PM
Bring a brown bag lunch (Please leave the room cleaner than we receive it)
Seminar Highlights
- Use AI and ChatGPT to craft narration for family stories
- Design PowerPoint slides for storytelling
- Turn your stories into narrated family history videos
- Learn the full process: story → slides → video
- Familiarity with PowerPoint is useful
Session Abstract
Everyone has a story worth remembering. In this engaging multimedia lecture, “Create Family Videos With AI and PowerPoint,” you’ll learn how AI tools like ChatGPT can help turn cherished memories into beautiful narrated family history videos. Discover how AI can assist with writing narration, designing slides, and blending voice, images, and music to bring your story to life. Perfect for anyone who wants to preserve family stories for future generations. A basic familiarity with PowerPoint is suggested, but imagination and heart are the keys to creating lasting, meaningful stories.
About The Speaker: Ron Chan
Ron is a seasoned lecturer on family history documentation best practices, captivating audiences worldwide at genealogy workshops and libraries across the San Francisco Bay Area. As a published genealogy author, he has a passion for storytelling and teaches innovative technologies to bring ancestral tales to life. Ron is the Founder and Executive Director of the Bay Area Chinese Genealogy Group, dedicated to preserving ancestral stories. He is also a co-founder of the Chinese American GI Project, ensuring that veterans’ legacies are not lost, forgotten, or ignored. Ron shares with you how to capture and share family struggles of the past so future generations can embrace, remember, and learn from those who came before.