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Publishing Your Family History

Creative Means to Share Your Family Research Findings

How to donate your published family history to the Library of Congress:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/gifts.html
Don't think you can manage it all yourself? Consider hiring a professional through the Association of Personal Historians: http://www.personalhistorians.org/
Celebrate a Life, a site dedicated to capturing and preserving people's stories:
http://www.celebratealife.com/biographies/index.asp
SurnameWeb's HomePage Construction Kit Tools and Tutorials on Building Genealogy Web Pages:
http://www.surnameweb.org/help/
Center for Life Stories Preservation:
http://www.storypreservation.com/home.html

Oral History

KBYU and Wisteria Picture's Capturing the Past: How to Prepare & Conduct an Oral History Interview:
http://www.byub.org/capturingpast/
Rootsweb's oral history questions:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oralhist.htm
About.com's list of oral history resources:
http://genealogy.about.com/hobbies/genealogy/msuboral.htm
A cluster of articles on oral history and family tradition:
http://familytreemaker.com/backissu.html
Recording Oral Histories: Tips and Topics - included suggested interview questions:
http://familytreemaker.com/00000028.html
Biography Assistant, a great tool for helping you determine the questions to ask for any family interview:
http://familytreemaker.com/bio/index.html
Cyndi's List of sites pertaining to oral history and interviews:
http://www.CyndisList.com/oral.htm
Southern Oral History Program's How-to for all aspects of interviewing:
lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Southern_Oral_History_Program_Collection.html

Organizing Your Genealogical Information

Get It Together series by Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS:
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/
columns/together/d_p_1_archive.asp
About.com's list of sites to help you organize your research:
http://genealogy.about.com/hobbies/
genealogy/msuborganize.htm
Cyndi's List of sites to help you organize all those papers you've collected:
http://www.CyndisList.com/organize.htm
"How Do I Keep All This Stuff Straight?" by George Morgan:
http://www.ancestry.com/columns/george/04-24-98.htm
A series of articles by Dear Myrtle to help you get organized:
http://dearmyrtle.com/organize/organization.htm

Internet Resources on Writing Your Family History

Choosing Your Family Book's Focus and other Family Book Tips by Michael John Neill:
http://www.genealogy.com/21_neill.html
Creating a Family History Book by Donna Przecha:
http://www.genealogy.com/21_prze.html
Cyndi's List of sites for writing your family history:
http://www.CyndisList.com/writing.htm
Reunion Center guide to writing a family history, with links to other useful sites and a list of recommended books:
http://www.genealogyforum.com/gfaol/reunion/
The LifeStory Institute - a newsletter published on biographical writing:
http://www.thelifestoryinstitute.com/
A series of articles by Dear Myrtle to help you write your family history:
http://www.dearmyrtle.com/lessons.htm#Writing

Publishing Your Family History

For free guides on publishing a book and copy preparation:
http://www.gatewaypress.com/
Overview of decisions to make when publishing your family history:
http://www.storypreservation.com/steps.html
Questions to ask printers you're considering working with:
http://www.author.co.uk/print.htm

The information contained on this page comes from a variety of sources, but relies heavily on The Everything Family Tree Book by William G. Hartley (Adams Media, 1998) and Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide to Family History & Genealogy by Jim & Terry Willard with Jane Wilson (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997).