Telling your story - Pat Mc. Nees. Writing your memoirs, creating a family history, leaving lessons learned. Storycatching, life telling, life writing (visually, orally, in print, audio, video)capturing a life story and life lessons for future generations. Do it yourself or hire a personal historian (your memoir ghostwriter) to help! Video biographies, tributes, and documentaries. Sources for music, images, video clips and related material. Preserving your family treasures (archiving, conservation, and preservation)Timelines, family history, genealogical and other historical resources(this section has its own table of contents)Doing oral histories or video interviews(this section has its own table of contents)Oral history collections online.
Audio recording and editing equipment, software, tools and tutorials for recording and editing interviews. Books to help you get started writing your own (or someone else's) life story(in several categories: Writing personal and family histories, Memoir writing as discovery, Memoirs, healing and self- understanding, Memoirs from writing prompts, Anthologies, The art and craft of memoir and biography)Books for life story writing or reminiscence groups.
Class Notes. Share your milestones with classmates and the Emory Law community. All class notes appear in the special Alumni Class Notes feed and are archived by. Using other people’s research or ideas without giving them due credit is plagiarism. Since BibMe Latino Dating Site - Meet Latino singles on Amigos.com! Meet Latino singles - Sign up today to browse single Latino women and single Latino men - Browse single Latino. The New Face of Heroin. The explosion of drugs like OxyContin has given way to a heroin epidemic ravaging the least likely corners of America - like bucolic Vermont.
- Pat McNees and Debbie Brodsky talk about what personal histories are, and what personal historians do, and why.
- Click on photo for Dave's bio. YOUR ANCESTRY NET. DAVID LEPITRE. POSTED 10.21.11 I was just reading some of the Log Cabin chronicle posting and I thought maybe you.
Personal historians help others tell their life stories. Selection from Starting Over, by Herman Sheets with Pat Mc. Nees Selections from the memoirs of Dr. Thomas Mc. Nair Scott, pediatrician. Obituaries and obit writing. Everyone has a story to tell but many of us need help telling it .
Once we overcome shyness or modesty, however, we almost all enjoy reminiscing. As the years advance, a . If you're one of the younger members of your family, take my word for it: You may not be eager to hear family stories now, but eventually you will.
Get those stories now . If nothing else, get those stories recorded . Having those voices on tape, having the stories behind those photographs preserved, is a far more meaningful legacy in the long term than most other physical legacies. And in the short term the material can enliven a special occasion, such as a major anniversary, birthday, or memorial service. Indeed, one way to improve the care an elderly patient receives in a hospital or nursing home is to write a brief history of their life and tape it to the door, making them a person with a story and not just another old patient. An experienced interviewer with a good tape recorder can capture memories that your family will cherish for generations.
If they don. Start with a family photo history, with captions! Make a CD of it for everyone in the family.
Don't put it off to the distant future. So often I hear people express regret about the stories they didn't get and wish they had now. Keep it simple, but do it now!
As a professional journalist with great curiosity about the lives of others, I've helped research and write several personal, family, and organizational histories. What can you expect when you hire someone to help you with all or part of yours?
In general, we conduct interviews, have the interviews transcribed, organize and edit the material, help you find your . Everyone has a story to tell, but not everyone realizes how their life might interest others, especially in their own family .
I am often hired by someone to capture the life story of a loved one. And it needn't be one person telling the story.
Sometimes when stars in the family story were raised in the . Nothing is more boring than mere bragging: you want to know exactly WHY they were the greatest, and you also want to know about their foibles, which are often best (most amusingly) told by others.
A life story needn't be an ambitious project and can proceed in stages. You can start with interviews: Get those memories on tape while the memories are still there to be captured. Get an elder to identify and tell stories about the people in those old photos. You can decide later if you want those interviews organized, edited, and transformed into a more polished manuscript and printed as a book. Or start by writing, and if writing is a chore, work with a writing coach or a personal historian- -they can give you assignments and help you if you get stuck, or you can sit at a computer and write together, with them helping you remember and interpret what went on in your life.
List all the important and not- so- important- but- memorable things that happened in the life of the person you are writing about. Use timelines like those I've provided links to, to help trigger memories. Looking through old photographs and memorabilia also helps trigger memories. See useful links below, in fairly random order.
Ordinary people, extraordinary lives. As a professional writer, I have helped many ordinary people remember important life events, and find the shape of their life story, usually at the behest of someone else in the family. The first gentleman whose life story I helped tell was an Ohio businessman in his late 8. Warren Webster. Webster had lost both legs to diabetes, had lost his wife after 7. He had retired from what he considered to be a modest career in manufacturing and was puzzled why anyone would want his life story, but telling it transformed him . As I wrote a story based on his interviews, I read it aloud to him, as his vision was failing.
Webster was a factory worker who rose to the executive suite. When I read aloud, . It became a wonderful memorial to his life. Life stories needn. I am working now on a photohistory of a family that fled to California from Kansas in the dustbowl and Depression of the 1. Most life stories are created mostly for the family .
Equally important to history, I think, are the memoirs of Dr. Thomas Mc. Nair Scott. I spent many hours interviewing Tom with a view to helping him write his memoirs, for private publication for his family and friends. A delightful man with great curiosity and (I learned from his former colleagues) a gift for diagnosis, Tom had become a pediatrician early in the twentieth century, when pediatrics was just becoming a field in America; it wasn't yet a field in England.
Tom had a long, illustrious career teaching and practicing at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and elsewhere, and a long and happy marriage to Dwight Mc. Nair Scott, who did biomedical research.
At the request (and with the help of) his children, Tom finished his memoirs shortly before his hundredth birthday, not long before his death (see excerpts below). Your Personal Memoirist Is Here (Alina Tugend, Entrepreneurship, NY Times, 8- 3. Your generation's stories, if not written or otherwise recorded, will be lost. There's a whole new line of one- person enterprises that help individuals and families tell their stories. Members of the Association of Personal Historians (which folded in May 2. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage. Do listen to this TED Talk, from TED2.
Chicago Public Radio's weekly series of short radio stories and images of America's veterans- -a Points of View Production by Paul and Ben Calhoun, ed. Click on image to hear vet's story. Sex Dating In Jamestown California there. Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the US photographing the sites scarred by the American civil war. Plus an article by Levene: Blasts from the past: photographing the American civil war in 2.
Guardian, different page) To mark the 1. Guardian photographer David Levene took a trip across America to re- create some of the most iconic photographs taken at the time. At 5. 0 and facing terminal cancer, Pam Fairmont made a video for her 1. Connor. Her message: 'I'll always be with you.'. So far, it's working. It's like nothing you've ever played before.
It's called . And it wasn't developed by Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, or any of the other big game studios. It was the brainchild of the Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC) . A blog entry criticizing a Steve Denning video about radical management for not telling stories also offers a Storytest to see if you can spot a story. Good site for insights into storytelling for businesses.? Contains a sentence that is hard to top: .
Clark, Opinionator, NY Times, 2- 1. That's when the magic happens. Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography, ed. You are writing in a narrative style without adhering to all the strict scientific conventions and third person writing that. You are trying to bring your reader and yourself into the text. Photographer Irina Werning's wonderful pairings of old photos and later variations (adult reenactments).
A marvelous variation on personal history. This TED talk is about that experience and process.
Reardon, Chicago Tribune, 1. The gifts he's treasured most have been the autobiographies his wife and kids wrote for him at his request. Watch their delighted and happy expressions.
This is why personal historians love their work.). New Republic, 5- 1. The problem of memory and memoir in an age when technology has both overcome and highlighted the limits of the human brain's capacity. Real estate companies have also enlisted his services, hoping the narratives he uncovers will help give their brokers a slight edge in the market.?
Daniel Mendelsohn's review of Ben Yagoda's Memoir: A History (New Yorker,1- 2. Butler, in Aging Today newsletter, 2.
Life review can result in resolution, reconciliation, atonement, integration and serenity. It can occur spontaneously, or it can be structured. Reminiscence, simply recalling events or periods of one's life, is only one aspect of a life review; although it can be therapeutic, it is usually not evaluative.
Petersburg Times, 1. One project, Untold Stories (Reminiscence Site of Untold Stories at Momentum Arts), funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, helped capture the lives and experiences of black and minority ethnic communities in Cambridgeshire . Check out the box, Words to the Wise. My desire to do a personal biography would be to acknowledge my ancestry, honor my existence to my friends, colleagues, and those I love who are my family or I consider my family. But most of all, I want to capture myself.