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.

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

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.

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.
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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.

Memoir Mentor

Classes, seminars, podcasts, and book for memoir and family history writers.

Posterity Post | A must if you are interested in genealogy...

What would you think if you received a letter today that had been written to you by a great great grandparent over 100 years ago? Well you can do that for future generations. Anniversary and special covers and stamps can also be prepared for any interested organisation for any special occasion to remember our past and educate for the future. Located in Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

Publish Your Own Family Keepsakes

Recollections - Capturing Memories

Resources, articles, e-courses and free ezine for genealogists who now want to turn their research into a collection of polished family stories. Let a personal historian show you how.

ShopFamilyTree.com - Family Tree University $

Independent Study Courses (CD or download) from the publishers of Family Tree Magazine.

Ten Easy Steps to Writing Your Family History

Article by Valerie Holladay.