Sunny Jane Morton is a Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine and Content Director at Your DNA Guide. She is author of Story of My Life: A Workbook for Preserving Your Legacy, now in its 2nd edition, and co-author of the NGS award-winning book, How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records. She is past Editor of Ohio Genealogy News. While she has built her career on teaching everyday skills for the popular genealogy market, her earliest publications were in academic journals, and her most recent is a co-authored, story-driven article about delayed birth records that appeared in NGS Magazine in early 2024. Sunny is co-author of the NGS award-winning book How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records and author of a work-in-progress on religious archives, funded in part by The University of Notre Dame. She also spent a year in an in-depth memoir writing workshop and has done additional studies on the subgenre of family history memoir. In this GRIP workshop, she looks forward to sharing unique lessons learned from years of studying and practice of the kinds of writing in which the author must navigate the integration of first-person memory-sharing and the third-person perspective common to research-based storytelling.