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Rachel J. Trotter

Rachel loves family storytelling. She has been a professional writer for over 20 years. A graduate of Weber State University, she has had articles featured on LDSLiving.com, ChurchofJesusChrist.org, FamilySearch.org, and Meridian Magazine. She has been a speaker at RootsTech, Weber State University Family History Conference, Conference on Family History at BYU, and the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree.

Rachel also works with Evalogue.Life, where she writes and teaches professionally. She helps people tell and write their life stories and has written six life stories with several more in production. She and her husband, Mat, have six children, and she recently became a grandma! She and her family live on the east bench in Ogden, Utah.

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