How to Create Your Family History Book; Tips From an Expert, with JoEllen Haugo

How to Create Your Family History Book; Tips From an Expert, with JoEllen Haugo

JoEllen Haugo worked as an editor and indexer for her cousin, Rebecca (Becky) Haugo Schulthess’s 2023 book on the Haugo family. This 436-page book is complete with genealogy charts, stories, photos, index and printed locally in 4-color and covers genealogy back to the 1500s to babies born in the 2020s. Most stories are from the 1950s-1990. 

Cousin Becky began doing family genealogy research in the 1970s in preparation for a family reunion. Then in 1986 Becky published a 244 page book including genealogy and stories of three families. JoEllen joined on as part of the “production team” in 2021. 

JoEllen Haugo is a retired librarian who worked many years in the Hennepin County Library History and Special Collections departments Minneapolis Central Library. She grew up in Minnesota, but the family stomping grounds are in northcentral Iowa where family members from around the country gathered. This is the second published book that JoEllen extensively worked on. She will share information on getting these books published and distributed. Gail Watson will be contributing to the presentation.

Gail Watson, born and raised in Duluth, lives with her husband in southwest Minneapolis where they raised two daughters. She earned a B.A. in history from the U of Colorado at Boulder and then spent a year in Norway. She has a M.A. in Comparative Literature/Scandinavian Studies from the U of MN. She also has her Montessori accreditation and taught for several years in Minneapolis to students 2 1/2 - 6 years old. She maintains close ties with relatives in Norway.

This will be a hybrid meeting, available in-person and via Zoom. N-AGA members will be sent a Zoom link prior to the meeting.