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Adding Detail to Your Narrative

Article by Patricia Law Hatcher.

Association of Personal Historians

An international organization of skilled professionals passionate about preserving life stories.

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.

BYU Independent Study - Free Online Courses

David's Genealogy Discussion Lists Homepage - Email Writing Style

Mailing List Helps - Sites with information to help enhance your mailing list experience.

Editorial Services, Carolyn Schott Consulting

Need help writing or editing your family history? This professional editor offers special rates to genealogists.

ENI Software - Every Name Indexer

An affordable every name indexing solution for back of the book indexes. Written by genealogists for genealogists and tested by professional indexers, ENindexer makes indexing your next family history book easy.

Family History Writing

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.

Family Memory Book – My Story, My Life

By offering this Family Memory Book to your loved ones or, by using it yourself, you have the opportunity to recall, document and safeguard long forgotten memories and family stories that one day, if they are not recorded, could be lost forever. This booklet is a chance to once and for all put these most valuable stories and memories onto paper or, if you prefer the pdf digital copy, into electronic format which will then be available for generations of your family to come.

Fuzzy Ink Stationery

Fuzzy Ink Stationery the go-to online resource to help turn your genealogy research into visual and shareable stories. Through weekly blog articles, a twice-monthly newsletter, and a free resource library you have access to tutorials, templates, worksheets, planners, and more.

Genwriters - Writing for Future Generations

Your genealogy source for ideas and resources to bring your family history to life.

Hazel Edwards - Writing a Non Boring Family History E-Book

History Echoes

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.

HistoryLines $

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.

How to Donate Published Genealogies to the Library of Congress

How to Self-Publish Your Family History Book - Family Tree Magazine

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.

Knox Trail Ances-Tree

Brent Chadwick of Massachusetts, has created a series of templates to be used for genealogical reports.

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.

Legacy Memoirs: Publisher of Life Stories and Oral Histories

Publishers of oral histories, personal memoirs, and custom biographies for families worldwide.
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