About me

When my grandmother died I inherited a shawl, a tin of recipe cards and a drawer of letters in handwriting I could barely read. I did not know what to do with them, so I began to write about each one, slowly, on Saturday mornings.

That became a weekly letter, and then a way of working. I start with an object, ask who held it and what they wanted, and write the answer plainly, including the parts I do not know. I am not a historian, only a granddaughter with a notebook, and you can be one too.

What I sell is what I use myself: a workbook for the family tree, a deck of interview questions, a template for putting it all in a book and two video courses for writing your family’s story.