Goodreads asked Cynthia Raleigh:

How do you get inspired to write?

Cynthia Raleigh I find so many ways to be inspired. I truly enjoy history and genealogy and am often inspired simply when reading or doing my own research. And not necessarily by grand events or noble people. Most of the time it is the opposite of those things. Even the most simple story or comment on a census record can touch me or cause me to wonder about the person and their family. I am inspired by the desire to bring those people temporarily to life by acknowledging them, not exactly as themselves, but from ideas that come from their true stories. No matter how mundane someone might think their family tree would turn out to be, there is always something you don't expect.

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