Day 7 - Finding our Stories

This morning we went over how to find stories within our own family trees and how to conduct historical research, and what we needed to complete our books of life. First, we had to finalize our family trees, next we had to gather images to add to our books of life, and the last step was to make a google doc and add all the information about the person/persons that we would like to highlight in our books of life. My first task of the day was to gather images for my Book of life. I found a couple of good photos and even letters that I found in my house between my great uncle and his sister who was my great grandmother.

My next step this morning was to write down all the information that I wanted to include in my book of life. I was able to write down about half of the information I wanted to add to my book of life by lunch.

After lunch, we watched an episode of finding your roots that focused on Latino heritage. after the Ancestry episode we continued to do our historical research. In the afternoon I tried to put all of the writing in the letters onto my google doc. By the end of the day, I was able to transcribe some of the first letters.

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