About this item
There's no reason a fully documented family history can't read like a page-turning novel. In this concise and accessible book, Sharon DeBartolo Carmack shows generalogists, history buffs, and writers at all levels exactly how to record the fascinating tales of their ancestors. Based on her own extensive experience writing family histories, the author shares her best methods for: - Conducting historical and thematic research- Organizing materials- Outlining and plotting a story- Illustrating with pictures and charts- Making money writing the histories of other familiesThe advice, inspiration and instruction in You Can Write Your Family History makes it possible for anyone--even those who've never written a single page--to successfully chronicle the lives of near or distant relatives.
About the Author
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack is a Certified Genealogist with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She is the author of twenty-three books, including Tell It Short: A Guide to Writing Your Family History in Brief and Inheriting the Gordon Hips, a collection of humorous essays. (These are currently available through Scattered Leaves Press at http://warrencarmack.com/) She is also the author of hundreds of articles, essays, columns, and reviews that have appeared in nearly every major genealogical journal and publication, as well as essays in literary publications, such as Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Hippocampus Magazine, Portland Review, Steinbeck Review, and Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art. Sharon's essays have also been finalists in contests for the Bellingham Review's Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and in Creative Nonfiction's True Crime contest.
