Writing Your Family History
RESOURCES:
How to Write
Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Boston, London: Shambala, 1986.
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York , San Francisco: Pantheon, 1994
Story Telling
Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo Carmack. You Can Write Your Family History. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2003.
Spence, Linda. Legacy: A Step-by-Step Gide to Writing Personal History. Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, 1997.
Sturdevant, Katherine Scott. Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2000.
Scholarly Genealogical Writing
Jones, Thomas W. Mastering Genealogical Proof. Arlington, Virginia: National Genealogical Society, 2013.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace., Third Edition. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2015.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Your Stripped-bare Guide to Citing Sources. (Quicksheet) 2014
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Quicksheet Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images. Pamphlet: 2010.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Quicksheet Citing Online Historical Resources. Pamphlet: 2014.
Family Histories
Colletta, John Phillip. Only a Few Bones: A True Account of the Rolling Fork Tragedy and Its Aftermath. Washington, D.C.: Direct Descent, 2000.
Luxenberg, Steve. Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret. New York: Hyperion, 2009.
Mayfield, Kate. The Undertaker’s Daughter. New York: Gallery Books, 2015.
McCourt, Frank. Angelas Ashes: A Memoir. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996.
Writing Your Family History
Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Isle of Canes: A Historical Novel. North Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004
Social History:
Johnson, Steven. The ghost map: the story of London’s most terrifying epidemic—and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.
Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Websites:
http://www.archive.org great for out-of-copyright books and much else!
http://www.thearmchairgenealogist.com/ specializes in writing family history
http://www.lisaalzo.com/ also family history writing
http://www.geneabloggers.com/daily-blogging-prompts/ Blogging or writing prompts
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Historic American Newspapers!
https://www.evidenceexplained.com/quicktips/ee
Elizabeth Shown Mills shares very useful info for researchers & writers.
Patricia Carhart 4/4/16