Joan Enders, Education and Research Consulting

My book is available soon!

It will be published as a glossy covered paperback. Kits of the primary sources will also be available for purchase. The staff at my former high school are pretty excited about it's publication. It and the kits will be offered on Amazon within the month.

A copy of my article about the project is under "Family History Blog" to the left.

I am also offering webinars for teachers or on-site workshops to help them prepare for the project and student webinar debriefings.

Longview, Washington's Family Discovery Day October 2015

After months of preparation our local Family History Center, me as director and with a hardy group of great assistant directors, organized our first conference event. We had 136 persons attending with 14 hourly sessions, 2 open labs, a "Discovery of Me" experience (low-tech, but fun) and informational booths. Local consultants from Woodland to Cathlamet to Castle Rock helped with setup. We are working on our second one for 16 April 2015.

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society
Presentation Sep 10, 2015

A great group and fun presentation! I had a preconceived notion that they knew so much my activity would bore them. Well....not so much!

Photography courtesy of The Single Leaf Blog

I just returned from presenting young adult and adult sessions at the BYU Genealogy and Family History Conference 2014. It was a great experience. The young adults cooperated in creating a timeline of a WWI soldier's life after analyzing primary sources of his life. The next day I facilitated an adult conversation about creating similar experiences for young adults in their locales. Of course, they enjoyed experiencing a sliver of the youth activity. It was difficult to exit the room. We could have talked about the involvement of youth in genealogy at least another half hour.

I am eager to prepare more sessions for youth involvement in family history.