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© Beth Dargis 2002-2005

9/18/2004

One of my friends wanted some resources on writing personal essays and family history. Thought I would share them with you also:

Here are some sites about personal essays/family history:

http://www.poewar.com/articles/essaywriting.htm

http://www.lisajohnson.com/family/genealogy/preserving/family_history_stories.htm

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsarchive/viewbydate.asp?date=1%2F4%2F2000

http://www.webyfl.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=50

http://www.triggers.com/framfade.html

http://www.storypreservation.com/home.html

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=8871

Books:
Writing Family Histories and Memoirs
by Kirk Polking

Writing Personal Essays
How to Shape Your Life Experiences for the Page
by Sheila Bender

Writing Life Stories
by Bill Roorbach

Keeping Family Stories Alive:
by Vera Rosenbluth.


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posted by Beth Dargis on 9/18/2004 02:15:00 PM |