• You Can Write Your Family History - (Book - Genealogical.com) : You don’t have to be a writer to chronicle your ancestors’ lives. In You Can Write Your Family History, 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. -

• All about me - (Book - Amazon.com) : With simple but provocative questions, All About Me is a great tool for self-reflection that spotlights everything your loved ones would be interested to know about you but never thought--or dared--to ask.
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• Carmack's Guide to Copyright and Contracts : A Primer for Genealogists, Writers and Researchers - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Ms. Gaunt's observations raise such fundamental questions as, "What is and what is not protected by copyright? What is in the public domain? Can I use information I find on the Internet? What constitutes fair use? When do I need to ask permission to use someone else's information, even if I quote it? And so on. -

• Cite Your Sources - (Book - Amazon.com) : A Manual for Documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records.
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• Creating Family Newsletters : 123 Ideas for Sharing Memorable Moments - (Book - Amazon.com) : This entertaining how-to features an array of newsletter formats and styles, including text only, poems, photo scrapbooks, cards, letters, genealogy, e-mail and Web sites. Worksheets include tips for getting organized, collecting stories and involving children and other family members. Each chapter also offers short vignettes from people who have either written or received family newsletters.
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• Dear Diary : The Art and Craft of Writing a Creative Journal -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : In her book Dear Diary, Joan R. Neubauer takes you on an exploration of the art and craft of writing a creative journal. The book includes the history and philosophy behind the art, as well as the mechanics, abstracts, and many other additional insights. It has many tips to make your writing more enjoyable as well as enhancing the quality of your journal. This book is also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• For All Time : A Complete Guide to Writing Your Family History - (Book - Amazon.com) : A pratical guide to documenting your family history, detailing how to get started, and specific forms and techniques. Also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada) -

• From Memories to Manuscript : The Five-Step Method of Writing Your Life Story -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : "From Memories to Manuscript" is intended to help you write a quality autobiography that others will want to read. Each of the six sections--research, organize, write, edit, print, and publish--describes the steps that will lead you through the process professionals use when writing, and each step is discussed in detail. The methods described will assist you in looking at your project in smaller, more manageable pieces. This is the perfect gift for yourself or a loved one. "Tell it like it really was." The author helps you to undertake a great adventure and write the book you always said you would. This book is a companion to the author's "Dear Diary". This book is also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• How to Interview a Sleeping Man -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : Renowned family biographer Milli Brown put together this book of 50 tips to help neophytes get started on a book or video of family lore. "Never interview more than one person at a time," goes one piece of advice. "If the laughing, shouting, and arguing don't make you crazy, listening to the tape recording will". She has suggestions for interview preparations, easing unwilling subjects into the process, dealing with ticklish material or memory lapses, and more! This book may also be available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links to check for availability.

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• How to Write Your Own Life Story: The Classic Guide for the Nonprofessional Writer - (Book - Amazon.com) : Click on link to read customer reviews. -

• How to Write Your Personal & Family History: A Resource Manual - (Book - Amazon.com) : By Keith E. Banks. This is the book for everyone who wants to start working on their family or personal history but is intimidated by genealogical forms, charts and jargon. 1988, 240 pp., index, paper. -

• Managing a Genealogical Project - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This work focuses on a particular method of organizing research materials. Its unique system of organization takes you from the preliminary stage of your research to the final presentation of your work as a report or a book. The system, an outgrowth of the Dollarhide System of Genealogical Records, enables you to manage a genealogical project with maximum ease and efficiency. -

• Meals and Memories: How to Create Keepsake Cookbooks - (Book - Amazon.com) : If you're passionate about food, want to preserve your culinary heritage, or have ever dreamed of writing your own cookbook, Meals and Memories: How To Create Keepsakes will show you how to create the most unique cookbook in your kitchen. Providing information not found anywhere else, each chapter of this intriguing guide explains and encourages, then summarizes with a step-by-step checklist. Read more... -

• Once Upon a Lifetime... -

  Once Upon a Lifetime was designed as a "memory tutor" with 1001 questions to help you record the stories of your life. Throughout the book are numerous questions about you and your family - the one you are from and the one you are building. It is a book for people of all ages. By having an abundance of questions to choose from, your family, and future generations, will have the opportunity to better know and understand your life and their heritage. With the use of a journal, you can expand and weave wonderful stories to leave as a legacy. The questions can also be used as a tool for interviews on audiotape or videotape.

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• Planting Your Family Tree Online : How to Create Your Own Family History Web Site - (Book - Amazon.com) : Planting Your Family Tree Online is designed to take you step-by-step through the process of creating a genealogy Web site.
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• Researching and Writing History: A Practical Guide for Local Historians - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : This book is essential reading. It gives sound and commonsense guidance on how to research effectively and efficiently, how to write with clarity and elegance, and how to avoid the traps and pitfalls which lie in the path of the local historian.
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• The Book of Myself : A Do-It-Yourself Autobiography in 201 Questions -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : A simple and elegant way to record the thoughts and experiences of a lifetime and to preserve them for generations to come, this handsome, keepsake book contains over 200 prompts divided into three life phases (Early, Middle, and Later Years), each with five different subject categories (Family, Friends, Education, Work/Responsibility, and The World) This book is also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada).

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• The Book of Us : A Journal of Your Love Story in 150 Questions -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : For the diehard romantic, there may be nothing so thrilling as chronicling that one true love. The Book of Us presents 150 topics on the subject--ranging from "Before I met you, my love life was..." to "One of the reasons I think we lasted so long as a couple is that..." Like David Marshall's earlier book, The Book of Myself, which is also a keepsake, this book makes us wish it were prettier. But it is the thought that counts, and a lot of thought will go into turning these empty pages into something a spouse, one's children, and then their children will cherish. And not to fear: While this is a very sweet book, there is also plenty of room here to ruminate on the less saccharine aspects of life partnership: financial crises, humorous escapades, parenting woes, and home-improvement projects. This book may also be available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links to check for availability.

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• To Our Children's Children : Journal of Family Memories -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : The companion volume to the bestselling "Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come" poses 365 questions, with ample space for families to write down their own answers. This book is also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• To Our Children's Children : Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : A warm, personal, and easily accessible guide to creating written and oral histories of the lives of older people, from the bestselling author of Hang Time and his sister, journalist D.G. Fulford. Small, inviting, and beautifully designed--resembling a chapbook or diary more than a reference or how-to workbook, this guide is a very special volume, to buy or give with thoughts of love. This book is also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• Turning Memories into Memoirs : A Handbook for Writing Lifestories -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : Now would-be writers can learn how to create a meaningful work that invites a touching glimpse into yesteryear. This guide will help them bring the past alive and share it with others in a captivating way, as the author offers advice and skills from his popular workshops. Highlighted with more than 60 photos. This book may also be available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links to check for availability.

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• Writing Family Histories and Memoirs - (Book - Amazon.com) : Kirk Polking provides budding historians and biographers the tools for learning how *their* people -- their families -- lived and made history. She takes the reader step-by-step, from how to do research, find records and interview family members, to finally writing a book that answers, fairly profoundly, the profound question, "how did I get here?"
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• Writing the Stories of Your Life: How to Turn Memories into Memoir - (Book - Amazon.com) : This book shows you how to write freely and enjoy writing, gain access to your memories and shape them into stories, set goals for your memoir project and complete it, turn journal entries into stories, bring out the character in people and pets, turn places into settings, find stories from your family's past, structure a story to engage your reader, polish your stories and edit your memoir, illuminate the theme in your story, discover your own life themes, decode how to publish your story.
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• Writing Up Your Family History: A do it Yourself Guide - (Book - Amazon.com) : Under four main headings, the author shows how to collect, collate and produce a book based on family history. The last stage of the undertaking, the publishing is open to many pitfalls that are dealt with honestly and openly by the author. Also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada) -

• Writing Your Family History: A Practical Guide - (Book - Amazon.com) : Ever wished to see your family history in print, or imaged future generations poring over old photographs and anecdotes in a book? Writing Your Family History helps family historians realize the full potential of the names, dates and facts that they have researched to compile a detailed family history that will be preserved for future generations.
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• You Ought To Write All That Down: A Guide to Organizing and Writing Genealogical Narrative. Revised - (Book - Amazon.com) : Paul Drake, J.D. We all have been told that we should write a book. Here is a complete, detailed and well written guide for planning, organizing, writing, publishing and selling such a work. 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. This revised edition contains a new five-page section in which wills and estates are discussed in detail. -

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