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Following are four great resources that can assist you in writing your family history.<\/p>\n Following are four great resources that can assist you in writing your family history.<\/p>\n
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You Can Write Your Family History<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n A great book to set you on your course is You Can Write Your Family History<\/em>, by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.\u00a0 One of the questions I struggle with the most is answered in this book:\u00a0 How much research is enough?\u00a0 Sharon also defines the various types of family histories and provides creative strategies for the writing process.\u00a0 This book can be purchased on Amazon<\/a> for under $20.<\/p>\n Producing a Quality Family History<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Patricia Law Hatcher gets into the nitty-gritty of writing and publishing a book in Producing a Quality Family History<\/em>.\u00a0 While Patricia does discuss the writing aspect, the most valuable piece of her book is the several chapter dedicated to putting the book together in terms of what elements to include, the layout and design of the book, and publishing considerations.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad I got this book awhile ago since it appears to be out of print; it\u2019s certainly worth checking to see if your local library or genealogical society has a copy.<\/p>\n Ready, Set, Write! Share Your Family\u2019s Story<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Lisa Alzo did a great webinar in June called Ready, Set, Write! Share Your Family\u2019s Story<\/em>.\u00a0 The webinar was done through Legacy Family Tree.\u00a0 Lisa\u2019s presentation was very informative and extremely inspirational.\u00a0 A 13 minute preview is available here<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also purchase the CD from this link as well; it\u2019s worth the $9.95 price tag!<\/p>\n For All Time:\u00a0 A Complete Guide to Writing Your Family History<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n For All Time:\u00a0 A Complete Guide to Writing Your Family History<\/em>, by Charley Kempthorne takes a different approach than the previously mentioned books.\u00a0 Charley really focuses on the writing and shows you how to make the story interesting.\u00a0 He gives a lot of examples and even has small challenges throughout the book to put what you\u2019ve learned into practice.\u00a0 There are also chapters on the types of family histories and publishing.\u00a0 This book can be purchased on Amazon<\/a> for under $15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following are four great resources that can assist you in writing your family history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-resources","category-writing-writing-your-way-to-the-past","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-21-id","cat-18-id","cat-17-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}