Are there gaps in your family history that you cannot fill? Unanswered questions that you wish you could ask ancestors, but cannot? In this workshop, we will consider how you can use research into history, place, and culture to contextualize your family’s history and seek answers for your unanswered questions. By exploring research methods and the ways we can sift and winnow broad searches down to essential understandings, we can start to scale up our research beyond our individual experience to understand the past in a new way.
When: Tuesday, May 12. 10:00am-11:00pm. This workshop will be one hour long.
Instructor: Chrissy Widmayer
Cost: $10 member/$15 non-member
This workshop is made possible thanks to a partnership between the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Humanities’ Community Powered initiative, which works to build resilience in communities using the tools of history, culture, and storytelling.
PLEASE NOTE – This workshop will not be recorded.
ALL CLASSES BEGIN CENTRAL TIME
Link for the Zoom meeting will be emailed closer to the start of class.
Contact us at genealogy@nagcnl.org with any questions or for more details about the class.
Chrissy Widmayer is a scholar of community connections. She has a PhD in Folklore Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. Her dissertation research explored how communities create connections and relationships using foodways and storytelling. Her postdoctoral research builds on the work she’s done as the director of Wisconsin Humanities’ award-winning Community Powered initiative, which puts the tools of history, culture, and storytelling in the hands of communities through training and educational programming. Chrissy hopes to help Nordic American communities in the Upper Midwest build capacity to collect their own folklore and produce dynamic public programming around those traditions. Chrissy is also a co-founder of WiseFolk Productions and content creator for Folkwise.