As genealogists, we’re always looking for new ways to get our loved ones more engaged with our research. We create online trees, blog our discoveries, and make photo booklets, but have you ever considered turning your research into a family history video? In this talk, Dai discusses all of the free software used to create family history videos for the GenealCymru YouTube Channel. Dai talks about the entire video-making process—from creating your visuals, to narrating your audio, and putting it all together into a video format—to give you a basic foundation for you to create your own!
About Dai Davies
Dai Davies (they/them) is a professional genealogist, speaker, and writer with a passion for telling ancestral stories in new ways. The foundation of this approach is Dai’s background in anthropology—MA and BA (Hons)—which they use to explore themes of social identity, culture, and history. Dai’s speciality and personal family history research is focussed on Wales, its rural communities, the farming class, literary culture, religious nonconformity, and the history of migration. The challenges of Welsh research, like searching for common names or the impact of place and history on the records, are things we can all learn from. You can find much of Dai’s work for free on their blog (https://genealcymru.com/) or join the more than 1.3 million people who have watched the GenealCymru YouTube channel.