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Kempthorne, Charley.

For all time : a complete guide to writing your family history / Charley Kempthorne.

Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1996.

x, 150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

For All Time is a practical and accessible guide to documenting your family's history, whether you want to write a little or a lot. Author Charley Kempthorne shows how easy it is and how much fun it can be. A family history can take many forms - a short essay or narrative introducing a collection of family letters, long captions in a family photo album, a biography of your parents and their life together, an autobiography, even a family newsletter. Kempthorne discusses.

The many forms of family history and tells you how to keep the task manageable. For All Time also clues you in to specific techniques. Kempthorne explains how to get started, how to use dialogue and physical detail to make a scene come alive, how to mix summary and anecdote, how to be specific, and when to employ other tools used by historians and novelists. There is also a chapter on printing and publishing your family history. This book will give you a thorough.

Understanding of how to write a family history. And peppered throughout are suggested writing topics; when you're finished, you'll have had the opportunity to write several sketches that can be used as a beginning.

Genealogy -- Authorship.

Report writing.

United States -- Genealogy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Handbooks and manuals.

Family histories.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued online.

Family history and its importance. History is a story. History and building a sense of family. Family history and the professional historian. Writing family history and personal values -- Techniques for writing family history. Narrative writing. What you already know about writing narratives. Learning to trust yourself as a writer. Getting started writing. Writing as a way of remembering. Engage the reader's senses. Mixing summary and scene. Writing a composite scene. Telling narratives from a specific point of view. Making a person real with words. Re-creating conversations. Use your imagination. The narrative mix : place, people, action, and narration. The slice of life versus a beginning, middle, and end. Care about what you're writing. Digression. Sense of humor. The role of revision -- The forms of family history. The narrative journal. Interviews. Writing captions. Letters. Occasional history : cards and letters. Cookbooks and recipe collections. Biography. Autobiography. The family newsletter. Fiction, historical, biographical, and autobigraphical -- Printing and publishing your family history. What do you do with what you've written? Printing your history easily and cheaply. Photos. Laying out your book. The types of publications. Self-published family history books.

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