About

Aryn Youngless is a Los Angeles-based genealogist and author known for her social media posts encouraging people to research their family history with free resources. You can hear her on the Big Blend Radio and TV podcast,  Turned On: Wild, Free & sexy in your Midlife, & The Totally Legitimate Business Podcast where she discusses generational trauma and healing through discovering your family history. 

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She has written creativity for more than fifteen years and is a published author. Aryn has also written and created multiple Genealogy Workbooks designed to help you capture, organize, and record your family’s history. These titles include: The Genealogy Journal; KIDS Genealogy Notebook; My Mom. Her Life.; & My Dad. His Life. 

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Aryn also enjoys assisting other writers and family history enthusiasts in achieving their writing goals. Her name can be found in the acknowledgement sections of: Jaimal Yogis' "CITY OF DRAGONS", Bethany Crandell's "SEE JANE SNAP," & Roselyn Teukolsky's "A Reluctant Spy," among others.

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She has co-hosted her local writers' critique group and taught "how-to-write" sessions. Aryn has also helped numerous people by critiquing, reviewing, editing, copyediting, and beta reading their works in progress, including full-length novels, short stories, television and film scripts, documentary narratives, and more. She has also helped to produce two short films. 

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She had created the From Research to Novel: Using Genealogical Research to write Creative Nonfiction and Historical Fiction Novels, where she helps writers discover how to use genealogical research to write accurate and engaging manuscripts, and will be hosting a From Research to Novel Writing group via Substack.

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Currently, Aryn is working on her own family history, using a mixture of traditional research and genetic genealogy, in the hope of answering her own family history questions, and is in the process of editing a historical novel using her methods of research taught in the FRTN Series. 

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For her nonfiction work, visit Spring Heeled Jack Media, a publishing company she started with her son. To learn more about her fiction writing and Writing Coach Services, head to AS Youngless Author, where she works to help people organize their thoughts, ideas, memories, and histories in order to draft and write their personal/family memoirs.