General Resource Sites

• Adding Detail to Your Narrative 
  Article by Patricia Law Hatcher.
• American Ancestral Associates - Literary Services  ~ Cranston, Rhode Island
  A full-service genealogical company, with over twenty years experience, including research, consultation, education, and literary assistance.
• 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.
• Capturing Memories 
  Workshops & assistance in writing memoirs and family histories.
• David's Genealogy Discussion Lists Homepage - Email Writing Style 
  Mailing List Helps - Sites with information to help enhance your mailing list experience.
• The Family History Project  ~ United Kingdom
  The History Channel is searching for interesting family stories for publication.
• The Center for Life Stories Preservation 
  Family Stories - Military Memoirs - Reunions - Genealogy - Anniversaries.
• Cyndi's Genealogy Home Page Construction Kit 
• Genealogy.com: Internet Genealogy, Level 2 -- Lesson 5: The Mechanics of Writing your Family History 
  Online tutorial.
• Genwriters - Writing for Future Generations 
  Your genealogy source for ideas and resources to bring your family history to life.
• How to Donate Published Genealogies to the Library of Congress 
• Illustrating the Life of a Camera-Shy Ancestor 
  Article by Loretta Evans.
• Legacy Memoirs: Publisher of Life Stories and Oral Histories 
  Publishers of oral histories, personal memoirs, and custom biographies for families worldwide.
• Life Story Writing Network 
  The Life Story Writing Network site contains a collection of serious and witty family life stories, descriptions of unusual situations and links to affiliated sites and mailing lists.
• Life Story Writing Network - I Love Life Story Writing 
  It's one thing to know when and where they were born, who they married and when they died. It's another more wonderful thing to read a vignette of your Gramma and see a piece of yourself in that story. Your relatives come vividly alive on each page. The memories can't help but touch your life.
• Life Stories and Memoirs of Others 
  Discussion forum for those who write the life stories of others.
• Memoir Mentor 
  Classes, seminars, editing, and consultation for memoir and family history writers.
• MyLifeStory.org 
  Write your personal history using our exclusive method. Hundreds of fun and thought provoking questions to spark memories. Free newsletter to provide inspiration and a reminder to keep writing. Personal editing and epublishing services. Your life story, one story at a time.
• PersonalHistoryHelp.com: How To Write Great Personal Histories 
  Learn 10 easy steps to writing a great personal history, for you or an ancestor. Learn to organize and preserve memorabilia, take oral histories, and write and publish on a shoestring budget. Contribute and read tips, print copyright forms, and use the links to other personal history sites.
• Publish Your Own Family Keepsakes 
• Roots Television 
  Roots Television is an online television network by and for avid genealogists. Videos include how-to demonstrations, conference lectures, and region-specific programming including Irish, Hispanic, British, Jewish, African-American research and more. Videos are available online, on-demand, and virtually all of them are absolutely free.
  • Program Guide 
    • Preserving the Past 
    • Storytelling 
• The Story of My Life 
  Article by Valerie Holladay.
• Ten Easy Steps to Writing Your Family History 
  Article by Valerie Holladay.
• Turning Memories Into Memoirs 
  Free e-newsletters for life history writing. Workshops, Leader Training Institute, teleclasses, books, binders, and other resources for family history, personal history and memoir writing.
• Writing a Family History 
  Article on writing a family history story.
• Writing Your Autobiography 
  From the About.com genealogy section.
• WordsWorth2 
  Find encouragement for turning your genealogy research into articles or books. Includes lists of publishers, writing organizations, a glossary, contests, and a bookstore.

Mailing Lists, Newsgroups & Chat

• Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Mailing Lists 
  Most of the mailing list links below point to this site, wonderfully maintained by John Fuller. John indexes links for all known genealogy mailing lists, including RootsWeb and others.
• RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists 
  The majority of genealogy mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb.com. Messages on RootsWeb lists are archived. The links to RootsWeb below point you to the archives (browse or search).

• FamHistorians Mailing List 
  Devoted to recording and preserving family histories, that will be of interest to scrapbookers creating heritage albums and those writing family stories, past and present. Topics include preserving old photographs, journaling, memory book products, scrapbooking tips and techniques appropriate for heritage albums, preserving genealogy research, etc.
• FamilyMemories Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the preservation of family memories through stories, pictures, genealogy charts, scrapbooking and journaling.
• GENAUTHOR Mailing List 
  For anyone writing or publishing or planning on preparing and publishing a biography, family genealogy book or similar work related to genealogy, history or culture, to discuss of all aspects of the effort, including organizing the data, choosing a format, selecting a mode of publication, publisher, etc.
• GEN-EDITOR Mailing List 
  For editors/publishers of genealogical, surname and family newsletters to have a place to discuss and share ideas and tips.
• Yahoo! Groups: Life Story Writing Discussion List 
  Life Story Writing discussion forum is for Writers, biographers, family and personal historians or anyone who is interested in writing, genealogy or family history. Everyone has a life story. Have you written yours? We exist to promote life story writing as a means to leave an accurate record of events in our lives, our values, family traditions and spiritual beliefs for the next generation.
• Yahoo! Groups - Preserving_Our_Heritage : Preserving Our Heritage 
  A mailing list to discuss all things about gathering and preserving our family history. Help to those new to genealogy as well as for those who have spent many years of research and now want to preserve it for future generations. Discussion for heritage scrapbooking, journaling, photography, and anything that will encourage others to preserve their heritage.

Publications, Software & Supplies

• Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore 
  A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.

• Alpha to Omega - The Genealogy Bookmaker 
  Software which creates books based on your GEDCOM file. It will create a book of descendants of the person you select from your GEDCOM file.
• Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Writing Your Family's History 
  The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
  • Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us 
    A book by Elizabeth Stone.
  • The Chicago Manual of Style: Fifteenth Edition 
    A book by the University of Chicago Press Staff.
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Your Family History 
    A book by Lynda Rutledge Stephenson.
  • Create Your Own Life's Story : The Simple Way to Record Your Personal History 
    A book by Glen Walker.
  • Dad Remembers: Memories for My Child 
    A book by Judith Levy.
  • Family Focused: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Your Autobiography and Family History 
    A book by Janice T. Dixon.
  • For All Time: A Complete Guide to Writing Your Family History 
    A book by Charley Kempthorne.
  • Front Porch History: Researching and Telling Your Family's Stories 
    A book by Tammy Cardwell.
  • Grandfather Remembers: Memories for My Grandchild 
    A book by Judith Levy.
  • Grandmother Remembers a Written Heirloom for My Grandchild 
    A book by Judith Levy.
  • How to Find Your Family Roots and Write Your Family History 
    A book by William Latham.
  • How to Write the Story of Your Life 
    A book by Frank P. Thomas.
  • How to Write Your Own Life Story: The Classic Guide for the Nonprofessional Writer 
    A book by Lois Daniel.
  • Indexing Specialities: Genealogy 
    A book by Kathleen Spaltro.
  • Keeping Family Stories Alive: Discovering and Recording the Stories and Reflections of a Lifetime 
    A book by Vera Rosenbluth.
  • Legacy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Personal History 
    A book by Linda Spence.
  • Life Writing: A Guide to Writing Family History 
    A book by William Hoffman.
  • Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History 
    A book by Cynthia Stokes Brown.
  • The Little Red Writing Book: A Practical Guide to Writing Your Own Life Story 
    A book by Lonnie Burstein Hewitt.
  • Living Family History : Creating A Multimedia Biography 
    A book by David A. Beardsley.
  • The Memory Triggering Book 
    A book by Robert M. Wendlinger.
  • Mom Remembers: A Treasury of Memories for My Child 
    A book by Judith Levy.
  • The Photo Scribe: A Writing Guide: How to Write the Stories Behind Your Photographs 
    A book by Denis LeDoux.
  • Producing a Quality Family History 
    A book by Patricia Law Hatcher.
  • Touching Tomorrow : How to Interview Your Loved One to Capture a Lifetime of Memories on Video or Audio 
    A book by Mary Loverde.
  • Turning Memories into Memoirs : A Handbook for Writing Lifestories 
    A book by Denis Ledoux.
  • Writing Family Histories and Memoirs 
    A book by Kirk Polking.
  • Writing the Family Narrative 
    A book by Lawrence P. Gouldrup.
  • Writing Your Life : Putting Your Past on Paper 
    A book by Lou Willett Stanek.
  • You Can Write Your Family History 
    A book by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.
  • Your Story: A Guided Interview Through Your Personal & Family History 
    A book by Gift to the Future2000.
• Biography Writer 
  Biography writing service.
• Carole's Write Place 
  Fee based assistance in writing family histories.
• Celebrate A Life.com 
  Dedicated to capturing and preserving the stories of people's lives.
• FamilyHistoryProducts.com 
  Computer software for recording your life story.
• Family Trees 2003 
  Publisher who compiles your family's genealogy, supplied by you, recorded in a 100 - 225 page spiral-bound book
• GenIndex Main Page 
  Windows software for creating "every name" or "back of the book" indexes.
• Heritage Books: Writing Aids 
• How To Write and Publish Your Family Book 
  Book for sale from Genealogy Publishing Service.
• Innovative Binding Inc. 
  Hardcover binding.
• IXM, Software for creating "Back of the Book Indexes" 
• Kindred Keepsakes 
  Genealogy charts; tips & hints for publishing your own family keepsakes.
• KinWrite 
  Converts a PAF file into a book.
• LifeBio 
  Online template for writing a personal history, autobiography or biography.
• Lifes Relections 
  Memories kit.
• The LifeStory Institute 
  For family historians and others interested in education and research in narrative writing.
• Margaret L. Ingram, Life History Consultant 
  Products and services available for life history writers.
• My Life 
  Software by Life.com.
• My Memories 
  A kit for a memory jar and a book.
• Once Upon a Lifetime... Take the Time to Record the Stories of Your Life 
  A book for sale that includes 10,000 + questions that help guide a discovery of the stories of our lives, as told by the people that are part of our history.
• Publishing Your Family History on the Internet 
• Publish Your Own PDF Genealogy Book Electronically on the Web 
• SKY Software 
  End of book indexing software.
• TapisInc.com 
  Interview books and scrapbook pages that help you capture the memories of your family, friends and yourself. Great for personal, oral and family histories. 14+ books, 25+ scrapbook pages.

Publishers

• Dogwood Printing, Inc 
  Custom printing for family histories, birth and death records, cemetery records, census records, church histories, marriage records, & town histories. Newsletters and quarterlies are also printed.
• Family History Books  ~ United Kingdom
  Online bookstore specialising in books about family history and related topics sponsored by the Federation of Family History Societies.
• Family Heritage Interactive 
  Family history to CD-ROM service.
• Family Heritage Publishers 
  Print, bind and publish your family history or biography.
• Family History Publishers 
  Boutiful, Utah publisher of family, city, and company histories.
• FamilyLearn 
  Memory book publishing, online journaling.
• Fast Books 
  Perfect Bound Paperback Books, Glebe NSW, Australia.
• Gateway Press 
  Helps people self-publish well-designed, quality books at a reasonable cost.
• Genealogy Publishing Service 
• Gorham Printing 
  A Pacific Northwest book printer specializing in design and printing of self-published books in all subjects and genres, with the ability for short print runs...from 25 copies to 3,000.
• The Gregath Publishing Company  ~ Wyandotte, Oklahoma
• The Habit of Rainy Nights Press 
  Family history book publishing, including editing, writing, layout, prepress and bookbinding.
• Heritage Books, Inc. 
  Author information - So You Want to Publish a Book?
• Heritage Makers 
  Preserve your precious memories in a custom, hard-bound storybook. The Roots book is for preserving the memories of your ancestors for posterity. Also greeting cards, calendars, postcards, and digital scrapbooking.
• Hollyhock Press 
  Publisher of genealogical books covering the region of Bath, Highland, Augusta and Pocahontas Counties, Virginia and West Virginia.
• JESH - Electronic Publishing for Genealogy 
  Easily publish stories, genealogy and photos in electronic format on CD.
• Memory Catchers 
  Personal historians.
• Nashville Editorial Service 
  Professional writers and graphic artists help you tell your own story in a unique and personal way; transcribes, scans, & restores photos, letters, & documents; presents your story in a handsome book, CD, or website.
• Newberry Street Press 
  The special publications division of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
• PageSmith 
  Graphic design, copywriting, newsletters, family histories.
• Publish Your Personal Autobiography With Forever Yours 
• S. Ingram & D. Robinson - The Family History Bookbinders 
  Our "You print it out, we'll bind it" service enables you to have your computer print outs bound into a gold tooled hard backed book. Single volumes welcome.
• Shortrunbooks.com 
  Bookbinders for family history self-publishers.
• Yahoo!...Genealogy...Family History Publishers 
• Storytellers 
  Publishers of books & CDs to preserve your family stories.

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