Frameworks - Chronicle Makers

Woodcut of a workbench holding an unfinished hourglass and a scatter of shavings — the Making Process is the record of how a family history got written.

Frameworks

The Making Process: The Path From Your Records to a Finished Chronicle

Your making process is the path from the records you found to the chronicle your family reads. Documenting it as you work is the practice.

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Frameworks

The Soundness Standard: When Family History Research on an Ancestor Is Finished

The Soundness Standard defines when research on one ancestor is finished: searched to the records that exist, written down, honestly defensible.

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Frameworks

The Research Quality Check: How to Know Your Research Is Ready to Become a Story

The Research Quality Check is the five-check standard family historians run on their research before writing an ancestor's story.

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Frameworks

The Finisher Framework: Why Most Family History Projects Stall (and How to Change That)

The Finisher Framework: the identity shift from genealogy researcher to someone who finishes family history stories. Built for people with years of research and nothing written.

STORI letterpress block letters in vintage woodcut style — the five-step chronicle writing method by Chronicle Makers

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What Is the STORI Method? The Five-Step Process for Writing Family History

The STORI Method is a five-step process for turning genealogy research into a finished family history story. Scope, Thread, Originate, Reflect, Inspire.