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How-to and instructional materials
Memoirs, autobiographies, and other personal history works
Other materials helpful to the personal historian
Materials for Personal History Teachers
These titles can usually be purchased through the authors, or from their web sites. Their contact information can be found below, or in the Membership Directory.
How-To and Instructional Materials
For All Time: A Complete Guide to Writing Your Family History
by Charley Kempthorne
A very readable and practical guide to documenting your family's history, whether you want to write a little or a lot. Quick and easy to get started. Helps you with use of dialogue and physical detail to make a scene come alive. Hints on how to mix summary and anecdote, and when to employ other tools used by historians and novelists. 150 pgs.
Retail: $15.95
APH Website Price US: $14.50 (INTL: $15.50)
S&H US: $3.50 (INTL: $4.50; add $.50 for each additional copy)
CA Sales Tax: $1.15
Contact Hawthorne House ( ) for copies
Family Legacy Video Producer's Guide
by Steve Pender
steve@familylegacyvideo.com
This CD-ROM contains step-by-step professional techniques to help you organize and produce your own family history video. It features step-by-step instructions, printable forms, video clips, photos & diagrams. Compatible with Windows & Mac.
Price: $24.95
Available from: www.familylegacyvideo.com
Steve Pender
Family Legacy Video, Inc.
Every family has a story. What's yours?
www.familylegacyvideo.com
http://familylegacyvideo.blogspot.com/
Our Family Heirlooms and Their Stories
by Patricia A. Kuentz
Recollections - A Portrait of a Life, Golden Valley, MN, 2006.
The unique user-friendly system in this book provides a practical method for storing facts and sharing memories about family heirlooms, including helpful suggestions to capture the significance of each treasured item. Within its elegant cover, the book's convenient loose-leaf format includes 50 documentation forms to help you commit to paper such details as 1) how your family obtained the heirloom, 2) its sentimental and monetary value, and 3) who will receive the item when its time to pass it along and why. This book is the ideal place to document family treasures, their history, and your wishes for their future.
Available from Amazon.com
From Shoeboxes To Books: Writing Great Personal Histories
by Amy J. Oaks Long
An easy to read 10 step guide to writing a great personal history for you or someone you love. Some of the steps include: organizing memorabilia, getting friends and family involved, oral history interviewing, and publishing your personal history on a shoestring budget. The book is full of motivating stories, visual examples, oral history questions, historical help, and practical advice.
Retail: $13.95
S&H: $2.50
Quantity discounts for resellers
See PersonalHistoryHelp.com for copies
Your Memoirs: Saving the Stories of Your Life and Work
by Hawley Roddick
Designed for personal historians and their clients, this book is a practical, lively guide to autobiographical adventure for individuals, families, and independently owned businesses: Memory prompts provide varied perspectives on the past; and an overview of how a memoir's manuscript becomes a book outlines choices a personal historian and memoirist make together. There are chapters on how to convey the narrator's personality vividly, on the tricky subject of remembering, on how to enhance a life story by drawing on literary elements, and on how to write an ethical will; and there is plenty of room for notes.
Price: $18.50
See Amazon.com for copies.
How to Write Time of Your Life Stories in Ten Easy Steps
by Phyllis Rowland
Topics and tools provide continuing motivation, encouragement, and inspiration. Stories of universal experiences by ordinary people provide concrete examples, inspiring an overflowing supply of ideas. 256 pages.
Retail: $19.95
S&H: $3
See MemoryCatchers.com for copies
Kitty: An Annotated Autobiography
by Robert D. Joyce
Two books in one: A complete autobiography you can read and use as a guide for structure and organization. Each page also contains side margin notes that clarify the writing techniques used in the text. Hundreds of these professional notes clearly show you how to organize and write your own memoirs. Once you start writing, this book will always be there for ready reference. 182 pages, soft cover.
Retail: $22.95
APH Website Price: $17.50
S&H: $3.50
CA Sales Tax: $1.40
Contact Hawthorne House ( ) for copies
LifeBio Memory Journal
by Lisbeth Sanders
This hardcover 6 x 9 inch book contains over 250 questions that cover these main topics: The People Who Shaped You, Your Memories, The Real World (adulthood), and Bringing It All Together. There is ample space to fill-in-the-blanks. The book ties directly to www.lifebio.com so people that fill it out can transfer answers to LifeBio to create multiple copies of a loved one's life story.
Retail: $24.95
See LifeBio.com for copies
Life is Like a Patchwork Quilt: The Art of Recording Life Stories
by Mary Mitchell
A how to workbook with practical suggestions for writing or recording Life Stories to leave as a lasting legacy for future generations. Includes interviewing tips and suggestions for encouraging reminiscence.
Retail: $15.00, postage included
See Mary Mitchell for copies
Memoirs of the Soul: Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
by Nan Phifer
"You have a personal story to tell—one that illuminates who you are and how you arrived at this moment in your life."
Retail: $16.99
See MemoirWorkshops.com for copies
Oral History Reference Guide
by Julie Zander
This annotated reference guide offers practical information for anyone seeking to conduct oral histories—including where to find interviewing questions, as well as advice on equipment, interviewing techniques and transcribing tapes. It’s a comprehensive, easy-to-use booklet listing nearly 180 Web sites along with addresses and phone numbers for associations, programs and projects.
$10 hard copy plus S&H
$5 E-book
See ChaptersOfLife.com for copies
P.Bio
by Doug Rogers
P.Bio ("your P_ersonal Bio_grapher") is PC/Mac software which creates a timeline of your life by automatically tracking who you have communicated with (by cell phone, e-mail, or social networking), purchases you have made (with credit or debit card), the digital photos you have taken, and where you have been each day of your life. P.Bio is basically an automatic diary, logging the essential facts about your daily life. P.Bio presents this information in a visually attractive form, with panels showing what happened each day. It also provides a journal panel where you can write more details about your activities, thoughts, and feelings for each day. If you've ever tried to keep a diary but ended up with many blank pages P.Bio is the tool you need to remember what happened in your life!
$Price: $49.95 (with free upgrades)
See P.Bio (your P_ersonal Bio_grapher)
Passing Your Heritage On: A Guide to Writing Your Family Stories
by Sharon Foltz
A manual to encourage older family members to write the stories handed down through their families so the future generations can enjoy and learn from their personal history.
$14.95 ppd. US
See RainbowRidgePublications.com for copies
The Photo Scribe: A Writing Guide, How to Write the Stories behind Your Photographs
by Denis Ledoux
A writing guide for family historians and lifewriters who approach their projects with family photograph albums as the starting point. 120 pages.
Retail: $16.95
S&H: $2.50
See TurningMemories.com for copies
Turning Memories Into Memoirs, A Handbook for Writing Lifestories
by Denis Ledoux
The foundation text for the workshops of the same name, this is a comprehensive how-to guide for writing personal and family stories. Revised & expanced edition contains exercises, examples, resource appendices, 200+ photos. 272 pages.
Retail: $24.95
Audiocassette, 120 min.: $16.95
S&H: $2.50
See TurningMemories.com for copies
Memoirs, Autobiographies, and
other Personal History Works
Golden Memories of the San Francisco Bay Area
by Steven Friedman
Nine elders reminisce about life during the first half of the 20th century in the cosmopolitan culture and breath-taking beauty of the San Francisco area. Eighty black and white photos of popular landmarks, city and nightlife, and ordinary families complement the poignant and humorous oral histories.
Retail: $18.99
S&H: $3
See AllStories, Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, and Bay area bookstores for copies
My Name As A Prayer
by Sheridan Hill
My Name As A Prayer is a memoir written from the viewpoint of the daughter-author, Sheridan Hill, as she adjusts to her mother's failing health. A longtime member of the APH, Hill uses tenderness and humor to walk readers through the questions that Baby Boomers face as their parents come into fragile health.
$12.99 plus shipping
1996 Treasury: Time of our Lives
ed. Phylllis Rowland
An anthology of stories by over seventy writers of all ages. Here are 120 personal experience stories and poems that will surely tweak your memory, perhaps even give you the motivation and courage to write your own "Time of Your Life" stories. 300 pages.
Retail: $13.95
S&H: $3
See MemoryCatchers.com for copies
Mountain State Stories of the People
ed. by Rae Jean Sielen and Amy Stevenson
This illustrated 186-page perfect bound collection of stories and memories is a fascinating collage of true experiences and observations written by people from all walks of life.
Retail: $18.00
S&H: $2.50
Quantity discounts for resellers
See Populore Publishing Company for copies
Other Materials Helpful to the
Personal Historian
Bookbinding Directory
by Julie Zander
This is an annotated directory of book artists and binderies that work with small runs or limited editions. Chapters offer tips from bookbinders about the most common mistakes people make when bringing a book in for binding, a tour of a bookbindery in Kent, Wash., and a state-by-state as well as international listing of bookbinders who will work with small runs of one to several hundred books. A list of bookbinding resources, Web sites and samples is also included.
$18 Hard copy plus S&H
$13 E-book
See ChaptersOfLife.com for copies
Memory Bank Notebook
by Robert D. Joyce
A comprehensive yet user-friendly fill-in-the-blanks notebook for recording life experiences. Easy to follow question and answer format makes book fun to use. Excellent, inexpensive gift. 88 pages, soft cover.
Retail: $12.95
APH Website Price: $10.50
S&H: $3.50
CA Sales Tax: $.85
Quantity discounts available for resellers
Contact Hawthorne House ( ) for copies
The Memory Binder, A Turning Memories Companion Workbook
Soleil Press
A customized 3-ring binder with many exercises, organizational aids and instructional material for lifewriters. Seventy-five pages with pockets, dividers & worksheets.
Retail: 21.95
S&H: $3.00
See TurningMemories.com for copies
Time of our Lives Magazine
ed. Phyllis Rowland
In each issue - two dozen personal experience stories and poems, and articles telling how to make your memoirs and family histories read like fiction while sticking to the truth - as you remember it.
Subscription: $12.00/year, 4 issues
See MemoryCatchers.com for copies
Writing Great Cameo Narratives in Five Easy Steps
by Denis Ledoux
An 8 x 11, two-sided worksheet available in gummed pads of one hundred copies for teachers and workshop leaders. This worksheet focuses on step by step directions for writing short (+/-50 words) narratives to accompany photographs in albums.
Retail: $9.95
S&H: $3.00
See TurningMemories.com for copies
Materials for Personal History Teachers
The Turning Memories Into Memoirs™ Presenter's Manual
Soleil Press
A comprehensive how-to guide for writing workshop presenters. Chapters include:Adult Student Profile, Successful Facilitator Profile, Lectures, Seniors Workshops, Business and Marketing, School Residencies, Editing/Co-authoring. Designed to support writers who want to be effective teachers and businesspeople. 110 pages.
Retail: $90.00
See TurningMemories.com for copies
The Turning Memories Into Memoirs™ Curriculum Manual
Soleil Press
A comprehensive curriculum for teaching lifewriting to any audience. Detailed models and outlines for lectures, single sessions, subscription series, multiple-week, weekend intensives,and seminars plus journal keeping, school residency and teacher development workshops. 90 pages.
Retail: $90.00
See TurningMemories.com for copies
Disk of Publicity Templates
Soleil Press
The How-To guide for effective publicity plus 12 ready-to-use templates of posters, postcards, press releases and forms for independent lifewriting teachers and workshop leaders.
Retail: $90.00
See TurningMemories.com for copies
Write from the Inside: Dig for Treasures, Discover Yourself, Leave a Legacy
Lissa Ann Forbes
In Write from the Inside, Lissa Ann Forbes (author, speaker, publisher, workshop facilitator) has creatively woven writing tips, sample writings, and her own lessons learned in a beautiful braid that will help you find your own treasures, discover more about yourself, and leave your own legacy for family and friends. You'll find this volume a transforming walk with a gentle guide.
Retail: $19.95 + S & H
See TheElementalPress.com for copies
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