America’s Story: Opportunity, Diversity, and Belonging Across 250 Years? (webinar)
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2-Hour Workshop: America’s Story: Opportunity, Diversity, and Belonging Across 250 Years
Presenter: Katherine Wilson
Presented on Zoom
$15.00
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America’s story is one of families seeking opportunity while facing exclusion and hardship. This interactive presentation follows that story across many communities, including Native Americans, early colonial settlers, African Americans, and European immigrants of the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores how people moved through a rapidly changing country, sometimes by choice and sometimes under pressure, and how immigrants and other marginalized groups navigated questions of rights, identity, and belonging. Guided reflection encourages attendees to consider how opportunity, resilience, and exclusion shaped these communities, with practical ideas for preserving those stories for future generations.
Join us for this 2-hour workshop, which expands on the lecture with step-by-step guidance for writing ancestral stories of opportunity, exclusion, and resilience, along with a demonstration of how to preserve those stories on major genealogy websites.
The recording will be available to registrants until November 3, 2026.
About the speaker:
Katherine R. Willson (Dexter, Michigan) discovered her passion for family history at age eight while earning the “My Heritage” Girl Scout badge, and that early spark has grown into a lifelong pursuit. Today, she is a dynamic genealogy educator who presents at regional, national, and international events and is widely regarded for her engaging presentations.
Katherine has held leadership positions in numerous local, national, and professional genealogical organizations. She serves on the faculty of both the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and the GRIP Genealogy Institute, teaching courses that explore the social, cultural, and economic forces shaping the lives and decisions of our ancestors.
As a full-time researcher for private clients, she specializes in Michigan’s pre-statehood families, the early pioneers of the Northwest Territory, and those who journeyed west during America’s expansion from 1787 to 1890, using historical context to build a fuller picture of their lives.
Through her website, SocialMediaGenealogy.com, Katherine shares free resources for family historians, including genealogy forms, oral history interview questions, and curated directories of genealogy focused Facebook groups, YouTube channels, and podcasts.
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