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One doesn't need years of education to become a family historian.\" This exciting and inspiring new guide provides \"scores of ideas on how to compile, write, record, and pass on the record of your life to future generations.\" By following the guidance in this volume anyone can begin today to collect and preserve their family history, starting with very simple and modest projects that will culminate in a family treasure. The author discusses \"creative ways of keeping a journal…, setting up family archives, writing a chronology, creating pictorial histories, preserving important family documents, conducting and transcribing oral histories,…\" and a multitude of other ideas, including suggestions such as: new traditions to begin with your family, how to help children create their own personal histories, and simple methods of reproduction and binding for those wishing to share their lives in book form with others. The book includes numerous photos, charts, and sample documents which provide illuminating examples of the various projects described in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith Banks' \u003cem\u003eHow to Write Your Personal and Family History\u003c\/em\u003e is a long-awaited treasure. Finally, the interesting lives of ordinary people might be kept for posterity, by the people themselves. I recommend this book to anyone who's led a life, or plans to. --Tom Bodett (author, commentator, ordinary person)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeith E. 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Included are sections on how to glean the most information from some old sources, write interestingly and clearly, site sources and avoid copyright problems. Instructions also cover the use of numbering systems, illustrations, charts, pedigrees, maps, and writings of others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Drake, J.D.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1998), 2007, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, index, 218 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788409899\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-D0989\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42814560720,"sku":"101-D0989","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-d0989-1500px.png?v=1776982214"},{"product_id":"101-e0110","title":"Your Story: A Writing Guide For Genealogists","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is a book that will show family historians how to turn their genealogical research into compelling stories--even if they've never written anything more complicated than a letter. Bridging the gap between genealogy guides and writing manuals, Your Story brings the essential techniques of storytelling to the realm of family writing as it guides novice writers through a basic writing project. Your Story works nicely in conjunction with general writing books, without repeating generic material on style and form. It concentrates on those issues of technique that relate specifically to genealogy--arranging events in time, keeping referents clear, writing strong narratives in the active (not passive!) voice, and so on.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarla Jean Eardley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1994), 2007, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 118 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788401107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-E0110\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42814313744,"sku":"101-E0110","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-e0110-1500px.png?v=1777146148"},{"product_id":"999-h6968","title":"Crafting a Personal Family History: A Guide, plus a Case Study of the Hinds Family in New York's Adirondack Mountains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrafting a Personal Family History\u003c\/em\u003e establishes the basic principles necessary to successfully research and document a personal family history. In most cases, only a fragmentary record of an ancestor's life will have survived, and those traces will tend to cluster around only a few topics. So it is in the Hinds case study presented. Analysis of those traces is essential: so the analysis is made transparent in the text. Other approaches are briefly presented in an appendix.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eCrafting a Personal Family History\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarold Hinds, in this groundbreaking and valuable textbook, applies his unsurpassed scholarship and experience as an academic historian to the fledgling field of personal family history. Providing both theory and practical example, Hinds makes a significant contribution that seekers of ancestors will find not only helpful but enlightening. He has demonstrated vividly and convincingly that exploiting oft-neglected local and regional materials and analyzing them diligently in the light of the time and place of their creation, can reveal -- even when the forebears are unexceptional folk from Ireland -- an engaging, often surprising, sometimes shocking family saga well worth telling.\u003cbr\u003e-- John Philip Colletta, Ph.D., author of \u003cem\u003eOnly a Few Bones \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarold E. Hinds, Jr. is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Minnesota-Morris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold E. 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In \u003ci\u003eYou Can Write Your Family History\u003c\/i\u003e, popular author and speaker Sharon DeBartolo Carmack explains exactly what it takes to create a compelling, highly readable, and entirely true story, whether you decide to write a biography, family history narrative, or memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarmack covers each element step-by-step, showing you how to:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eSelect the best type of family history to write\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDecide on a theme\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConduct efficient research to flesh out a narrative\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePut subjects in the context of social history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGet the words down on paper\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe results, you'll find, are well worth the effort. 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Developed by Anderson and perfected through his work on the Great Migration Study Project, this systematic approach considers each source, each record, and each possible linkage before making a genealogical conclusion. 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