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AN-111 FAMILY HISTORY MADE EASY. By Szucs. $10.00
AN-138 PRODUCING A QUALITY FAMILY HISTORY. By Hatcher. $20.00
AN-141 WRITING THE FAMILY NARRATIVE. By Gouldrup. $13.00
AN-141A WRITING THE FAMILY NARRATIVE WORKBOOK. By Gouldrup. $17.00
AN-222 DEAR DIARY. By Newbauer. $6.00
HOW TO PUBLISH YOUR GENEALOGY. by L. J. McGrady. 72 pp., $8.00.
Writing, publishing, and marketing your family history are all in this guide written by a man who has been through it all. This book will save you hours and dollars. Don't try it without this guide!
[FAMILY HISTORY / HOW-TO / INTERVIEWS / QUESTIONS] CRAZY CRATE 73 BOOK 13: RECORDING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY. By William Fletcher, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1986. 313 pages, softbound. This book details how to preserve oral history with video or audio tapes. It includes suggested topics and questions and even covers interview techniques. Even though this is an older book, the information is still pertinent. Gently used. $5.00
[WRITING HOW-TO] CRAZY CRATE 70 BOOK 1: WRITING THE FAMILY NARRATIVE. By Lawrence P. Gouldrup. Ancestry, 1987. 157 pages, wrappers, 5 ½” by 8 ½”. Here is a clear, concise and highly readable explanation of how to write your family history. This book was written for the person most of us are. Genealogists who have accumulated scores of pedigree charts and family group sheets; have spent years searching manuscripts, documents and microfilm; and who have finally realized that if we don’t bring it all together and write the story, much of what they have done will be forever lost.
We would like to bring everything we have learned together, but this requires a set of skills we may not have mastered yet. Writing it all down takes a lot of courage and requires a set of skills we should have learned in English Composition, but probably either didn’t, or have forgotten, since then. This author shows you how to compose a focused rendition of your family’s history. This book is liberally sprinkled with examples and takes you step by step through the literary process. This newsletter would not have become a reality if I had not read and reread this book. It is not expensive, but it is surely helpful. If you are faced with a mountain of documents and you are not sure what you are ever going to do with them, this book will get you started moving in the right direction. Give it a try! $13
[WRITING / FAMILY HISTORY) CRATE CRAZY 61 BOOK 10: WRITE IT RIGHT. A MANUAL FOR WRITING FAMILY HISTORIES AND GENEALOGIES. By Donald R. Barnes and Richard S. Lackey. 5 ½ “ by 8”, Laminated white cover with a beautiful quill pen and ink jar on the cover and lots and lots of good information inside. Both of these men were Certified Genealogists and Mr. Lackey’s “CITE YOUR SOURCES” is still a best seller in the field. This book was written as a companion book to his “CITE YOUR SOURCES” book and takes your knowledge a step further into the future when you will have collected so much of this genealogy “STUFF” that it cries for organization and polishing into a memorial to your ancestors. Second Edition. 1988, 124 pages. Half-price sale for the rest of July only for our newsletter subscribers. Regular price is $12. Yours until July 31, 2004, for only $6. This book gives a clear and easily understood guide for writing a family history or genealogy article or book.
It has one of the best and easiest-to-understand explanations of the numbering systems which can be used to get your ancestors to line up right in your books. When you come to problems [and who doesn’t?] in the pages of this book, the answer is right there. Whether it be how do I handle an adoption, skeletons in our family closet we don’t want anyone to find, coats of arms, conflicting evidence, etc., you will find help here. Very few genealogists set out to do the research with the idea of writing a book or indeed writing anything at all. We often are not writers, we are researchers. We just like digging up this stuff! But sooner or later we must settle down and turn our thoughts and our energies to how do I get this stuff in order? How do I put it on paper? Help me, we cry. And here is your answer!
These two accomplished authors have written just the book that can help you solve your dilemmas and get the job done. Don’t wait until you have embarassed yourself and your family by doing it wrong. Do it right with the help of these two fine authors! They cover preparing to write, your purpose in writing, and numbering systems [as I said, one of the clearest explanations I have ever seen in print – and with samples]. They’ll help you outline the work. They’ll help you write the text. They’ll help you prepare the draft and finish it off with proper editing. They even have a whole chapter on Problems and Advice. You’ll find the problems when you start to write, or they will find you! Then you will need the advice. Lots of answers are in this book. I only wish I had read this book before I started writing this newsletter. Life would have been a lot easier!
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