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In this episode of GenClub, family historian Paul Chiddicks shares how one Victorian photograph of a young girl, Adelaide Springett, led him from "cold data" to a moving story of poverty, resilience, and survival in East London. The panel explores what the records reveal — and what they can't — asking: If we're not their voice, who will tell their stories?

Volume 1, Issue 1 of Genealogy Matters Magazine is here — and we made you a little sneak peek. Watch the flipbook flip through its pages below and get a feel for the stories waiting inside: a century-old death that still raises questions, a harness maker’s shop frozen in a handwritten receipt, a wartime accident almost too dramatic to believe, and the one storytelling tool every genealogist needs.

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Somewhere in your family there’s a photograph with no name written on the back, a letter folded into a shoebox, a name fading on a ship’s manifest. You’ve spent years gathering the facts. But facts and dates only tell part of the story. Who will tell the rest?

That’s the question the Genealogy Storyteller Virtual Summit was built to answer.

Join us September 18–19, 2026 for a first-of-its-kind virtual gathering created for family historians who are ready to turn research into narrative — and narrative into something that lasts. Proudly presented by Aryn Youngless’ From Research to Novel and Robin Stewart’s Genealogy Matters, this is where your ancestors’ silent records finally find their voice.

Over two days, you’ll learn from writers, researchers, and preservationists who have devoted their lives to this work:

Chris Freeland, of the Internet Archive, opens the Summit with a keynote on preserving your family’s history in the Internet Archive — showing you how to make your research and stories part of the permanent record, safe from lost files, dead platforms, and time itself.

Rhonda Lauritzen helps you move past the fear of hitting “publish,” reframing the doubt every storyteller feels as proof that you’re exactly the right person to tell this story.

Lisa Maguire shows you how to place your ancestors inside the wider sweep of history, so a name on a census page becomes a person shaped by the world around them.

Aryn Youngless guides you through organizing your timeline and building the habits that carry a story all the way to the page.

Robin Stewart takes you through creating a counter archive and why it matters — building moments in your ancestors’ lives rather than settling for summaries.

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