HistoryCrafters Turning Your Heirlooms Into Stories and Your Stories Into Heirlooms

Upcoming Presentations & Workshops

Business Planning

  • Introduction to Webinars (online, for members of the Association of Personal Historians), February and March 2012

Previous Presentations & Workshops

Family History

  • Edina Professionals Serving Seniors (Edina, MN), presentation on saving family stories, December 2011
  • Association of Personal Historians annual conference (Las Vegas, NV), workshop co-facilitator, "Kick-Start Your Personal History Business: A How-To Guide," October 2011
  • Hennepin County Public Library (Minneapolis, MN), Family History Fair, presentation on "The Nuts and Bolts of Collecting Family Stories," October 2011.
  • Antiques Roadshow in Your Own Home, online workshop, April 2011
  • Graphic Design for Writers, online workshops, February & April 2011
  • Starting a Personal History Business, online workshop, March 2011
  • Freeborn County Museum, Library & Historical Village (Albert Lea, MN), workshop on preserving the stories of family heirlooms, August 2010
  • MN Genealogical Society (St. Paul, MN), workshop on techniques for writing a family history narrative, March 2010
  • WEST Networking (Bloomington, MN), presentation on "Writing Your Memoir in Small Easy Pieces," March 2010
  • Association of Personal Historians, workshops at annual conferences, Grand Rapids (MI), Portland (OR), Nashville (TN), Salt Lake City (UT), Philadelphia (PA), Victoria (British Columbia), 2005-2010
  • Other presentations: RSES Auxiliary (Bloomington, MN, 2009), Edina Federated Women's Club (Edina, MN, 2009), Central Library (Minneapolis, MN, October 2008), Southwest Senior Center (Minneapolis, MN, 2005 & 2008), Audubon Center of the North Woods (Sandstone, MN, 2008), Presbyterian Home (Bloomington, MN, 2006), GotStories (Mall of America, Bloomington, MN, 2005)

Genealogy

  • Minnesota Genealogical Society (St. Paul, MN), North Star Genealogy Conference, workshop on "The Pitfalls in Quaker Research," October 2011
  • "Adding Leaves and Flowers to the Branches of Your Family Tree," presentation for Olmsted County Genealogical Society, Rochester, MN, April 2011
  • Presentation for the Education Committee of the Minnesota Genealogical Society, March 2011
  • Organizing Your Family "Stuff," online workshop, March 2011.
  • Meet Minneapolis (Visitor & Convention Bureau, Minneapolis, MN), presentations at expos for family reunion planners, 2006, 2007, 2010
  • 3M Genealogy Club (St. Paul, MN), presentations, 2006, 2010
  • MN Genealogical Society (St. Paul, MN), workshops for Swedish, German, and Pommern research groups, 2008-2010
  • MN Genealogical Society (St. Paul, MN), workshop for North Star Genealogy Conference, 2009
  • St. Croix Valley Genealogy Society (River Falls, WI), workshop, 2009

Quaker Presentations

  • Minneapolis Friends Meeting (Minneapolis, MN), Sesquicentennial Celebration keynote speaker, 2005
  • Friends World Committee for Consultation, presentations at international gatherings in Kenya (1991) and Mexico (1985)
  • Friends General Conference, leader, five-day workshops at gatherings in Northfield, MN (1986) and State College, PA (1983)

Business Planning

  • Keeping Your Projects Under Control: Managing Clients and Workflow, online webinar, August 2011
  • Organizing Your Business with Spreadsheets, online webinar, August 2011

Community Events

  • Women's Endowment Luncheon (Albert Lea, MN), keynote address on "Community Jewels: The most precious jewels are not found under the earth, they are discovered among us," September 2010

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