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Writing Tips & Techniques for Your Family History
Planning to write your own family history or memoir? Find inspiration and advice including tips for choosing the focus of your family history book, story themes and ideas, and suggestions for adding interest to the narrative.
10 Steps to Writing Your Family History
Yes, the research is the fun part. Writing a family history book just seems too daunting to be fun. But when the relatives start nagging, try these 10 easy steps for making your family history book a reality.
Choosing Your Book's Focus and Other Family Book Tips
Michael John Neil offers excellent suggestions for writing your family history: choosing a focus, setting a deadline, choosing a title, putting it all together, and choosing a publisher.
Skillbuilding - Good Genealogical Writing
This excellent article by genealogist Elizabeth Shown Mills OnBoard, first appeared in Volume 4 Number 2, of the newsletter of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. Reproduced here on their Web site.
Skillbuilding - Polishing Our Everyday Writing
Kay Haviland Freilich shares some great tips in this article, reproduced here from OnBoard, Volume 4 Number 3, the newsletter of the Board for Certification of Genealogists.
Story Themes and Ideas
Some great theme ideas to get you started, from the Center for Life Stories Preservation.
Writing a Family History
This is episode 13 from the Ancestors Season 2 series airing on PBS in the summer of 2000. The Web site has a lot of great information from the episode including audio clips.
Writing History from Photographs
George G. Morgan details the technique of writing a compelling biography or family history using photographs.