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Adding Detail to Your Narrative
Article by Patricia Law Hatcher.
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Association of Personal Historians
An international organization of skilled professionals passionate about preserving life stories.
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Association of Personal Historians - Helping You Record Your Life Stories and Memories
Tips for capturing family memories and interviewing elders. Lists of upcoming conferences and workshops to enhance interviewing and other skills. Membership roster lists oral and personal historians by state.
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Editorial Services, Carolyn Schott Consulting
Need help writing or editing your family history? This professional editor offers special rates to genealogists.
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Noeline Kyle's Writing Family History offers practical advice for writing your family history, free downloads, and books on writing and researching your family history. Writing Family History Made Very Easy and her books on her own family plus many free articles can be accessed via this website.
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By offering this Family Memory Book to
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History Echoes is dedicated to offering ideas, strategies, and exercises to help family history writers write about the past and present in ways that will interest, and maybe even captivate, their current and future readers. Whether writing a biographical piece, a descriptive vignette, an essay about a family artifact or heirloom, a narrative, or a combination piece, family history writers will find useful strategies and tips to inspire their writing about the people, artifacts, and stories that make up their family history.
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Researching the life story of your ancestor is hard. So is writing their life story. HistoryLines automatically creates a pre-written, editable life sketch for any of your ancestors based on the when and where they lived in history.
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How to write your family history
How to Write Your Family History is a new app that uses tried-and-tested teaching methods to help you turn the extraordinary lives of your ancestors into compelling stories - for fun, for publication and for posterity. Available for sale through the iTunes store.
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Brent Chadwick of Massachusetts, has created a series of templates to be used for genealogical reports.
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A template that can be used by forensic genealogists to create client reports for attorneys and others.
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Several multiple generation genealogy templates available for Microsoft Word in NGSQ and Register format, modeled after the formats in Numbering Your Genealogy by Curran, Crane, and Wray. The templates make use of macros to insert Microsoft Word's auto-numbering.
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Simplified Narrative Templates
2 and 3 Generation Genealogy Templates available for Microsoft Word in NGSQ format, modeled after the formats in Numbering Your Genealogy by Curran, Crane, and Wray. The templates use Microsoft Word's auto-numbering.
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Legacy Family Tree Webinars - Writing Up Your Research (without using genealogy software) $
By Claudia Breland. Legacy Family Tree Webinars are available with a monthly or annual webinar membership subscription.
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Maybe someone should write that down...
A website for family historians who really want to get all the stories of our ancestors preserved in written form to go along with the facts and stats. Authored to assist a beginner or a seasoned researcher, this blog shows great ways to get started on a history that will be cherished and read for many generations.
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Classes, seminars, podcasts, and book for memoir and family history writers.
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