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Life Profiles

Tell your life story your way. We will produce a book about your life, as told by you, but using our professional writing skills. This is for your children and for future generations of your family, to be given to them now ... or perhaps later.

Lifey - Share Your Story & Help Others

Lifey is a new service that offers 100% free video life histories for families and individuals. Lifey is building a free app to help you to share and preserve your family history.

North American Slave Narratives

From Documenting the American South.

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.

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Social Networks and Archival Context

SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) is a free, online resource that helps users discover biographical and historical information about persons, families, and organizations that created or are documented in historical resources (primary source documents) and their connections to one another. Users can locate archival collections and related resources held at cultural heritage institutions around the world.

The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing

This blog by Sharon Lippincott, aka Ritergal, includes tips to help ordinary people learn to write extraordinary stories defining their own lives in their own voices and their own terms.

The LifeStory Institute

ThoughtCo - What Is an Autobiography? What to Consider Before You Start to Write

Women's Legal History Biography Project

History, biographies, photos and articles about women as lawyers in the United States.

WPA Life Histories

Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1940 at the Library of Congress.