Writing Interesting Family Histories
Blurb
Keen to write an engaging family history?
Stuck with little more than names and dates?
Uncertain how to begin?
Writing INTERESTING Family Histories is a must-read.
With advice ranging from how you can structure a simple family history and begin writing, through to how you can use simple words and sentences to evoke drama and tension, this book will help turn your dusty piles of notes and photocopies into a riveting family history. It will challenge you to rethink what "facts" truly are. It will show you how to extract "dialogue" from original records. It will help release your creative writing spirit.
There is no need to fictionalise history to make it interesting! After reading this book, you too will be able to turn dry facts into exciting narrative.
To purchase a book, go to Orders.
Stuck with little more than names and dates?
Uncertain how to begin?
Writing INTERESTING Family Histories is a must-read.
With advice ranging from how you can structure a simple family history and begin writing, through to how you can use simple words and sentences to evoke drama and tension, this book will help turn your dusty piles of notes and photocopies into a riveting family history. It will challenge you to rethink what "facts" truly are. It will show you how to extract "dialogue" from original records. It will help release your creative writing spirit.
There is no need to fictionalise history to make it interesting! After reading this book, you too will be able to turn dry facts into exciting narrative.
To purchase a book, go to Orders.
Reviews
"Who would think a 'How to' book could be a page turner?"
Kathleen Smith, Links 'n' Chains [Liverpool Genealogical Society]
"This is an excellent guide to writing readable family history and should be read by every family historian, not once but many times. Author Carol Baxter has shown how to take the family history skeleton held together by the facts, and add the flesh of the person’s life story by explaining how to research the times of their lives and place them into the context of living history. This could be the most important family history guidebook published in recent times."
Rex Toomey, Ezitree Family History Computer Software
"This is a helpful book to read before you start writing up your research but it is also useful to dip into along the way. The suggestions can give new inspiration, renew flagging enthusiasm and promote create thinking about your narrative."
Meryl Broadley, Cedar Log [Richmond-Tweed Family History]
"Carol helps you to turn your interesting family histories into great family stories."
Tina Bean, Ryde Family History Society
"The whole book [is] an informative and fun read.”
Joan Robertson, Kith and Kin [Cape Banks Family History Society]
"I loved this book and didn’t want to hand it back to the Society Library so I’ll have to acquire one of my own and even give thought to the unthinkable, 'highlighting' some of the many points I want to recall – if it doesn’t involve 'colouring-in' the whole book ... It is now up to [you] to seek out this interesting, informative and witty book."
Elaine Sheehan, Newcastle Family History Group
"No aspiring author should be without this helpful and well-written gem"
Bobby Pinkerton, The Ancestral Researcher [Heraldry and Genealogical Society of Canberra]
"This book is essential reading, guaranteed to help aspiring writers face the daunting task of putting words in a computer file or on paper. While we may not become writers of Carol's proficiency, following her ideas is sure to add to the quality of our publications."
John Wynd, The Reefs Ramblings [Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy]
"What singles this guide out for special mention is the emphasis on providing the tools to write a 'riveting family history' ... The section of the book most guaranteed to get the family historian fired up and ready to start writing is found in the concluding chapters in which Baxter draws on her own experience to provide tips and guidance on how to create a really entertaining text around the basic facts, together with some invaluable examples. ... For anyone planning their family history this is well worth a read."
Ancestor [Genealogical Society of Victoria]
"This engaging book ... is recommended to all writers as a 'primer' full of sound advice and constructive directions."
Evan Best, Descent [Society of Australian Genealogists]
"Writing Interesting Family Histories has become our "bible".
Neil Johnston [UC Pioneer, Heritage and Family History Group]
Orders
Click here if you wish to order a book or check out prices and packages.This book is not available in bookstores.
Kathleen Smith, Links 'n' Chains [Liverpool Genealogical Society]
"This is an excellent guide to writing readable family history and should be read by every family historian, not once but many times. Author Carol Baxter has shown how to take the family history skeleton held together by the facts, and add the flesh of the person’s life story by explaining how to research the times of their lives and place them into the context of living history. This could be the most important family history guidebook published in recent times."
Rex Toomey, Ezitree Family History Computer Software
"This is a helpful book to read before you start writing up your research but it is also useful to dip into along the way. The suggestions can give new inspiration, renew flagging enthusiasm and promote create thinking about your narrative."
Meryl Broadley, Cedar Log [Richmond-Tweed Family History]
"Carol helps you to turn your interesting family histories into great family stories."
Tina Bean, Ryde Family History Society
"The whole book [is] an informative and fun read.”
Joan Robertson, Kith and Kin [Cape Banks Family History Society]
"I loved this book and didn’t want to hand it back to the Society Library so I’ll have to acquire one of my own and even give thought to the unthinkable, 'highlighting' some of the many points I want to recall – if it doesn’t involve 'colouring-in' the whole book ... It is now up to [you] to seek out this interesting, informative and witty book."
Elaine Sheehan, Newcastle Family History Group
"No aspiring author should be without this helpful and well-written gem"
Bobby Pinkerton, The Ancestral Researcher [Heraldry and Genealogical Society of Canberra]
"This book is essential reading, guaranteed to help aspiring writers face the daunting task of putting words in a computer file or on paper. While we may not become writers of Carol's proficiency, following her ideas is sure to add to the quality of our publications."
John Wynd, The Reefs Ramblings [Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy]
"What singles this guide out for special mention is the emphasis on providing the tools to write a 'riveting family history' ... The section of the book most guaranteed to get the family historian fired up and ready to start writing is found in the concluding chapters in which Baxter draws on her own experience to provide tips and guidance on how to create a really entertaining text around the basic facts, together with some invaluable examples. ... For anyone planning their family history this is well worth a read."
Ancestor [Genealogical Society of Victoria]
"This engaging book ... is recommended to all writers as a 'primer' full of sound advice and constructive directions."
Evan Best, Descent [Society of Australian Genealogists]
"Writing Interesting Family Histories has become our "bible".
Neil Johnston [UC Pioneer, Heritage and Family History Group]
Orders
Click here if you wish to order a book or check out prices and packages.This book is not available in bookstores.