This is a book on many varieties of genealogy journalism techniques and practices. Creative Genealogy Projects:
Writing Salable Life Stories, by Anne Hart ASJA Press Imprint, iUniverse, Inc, paperback 187 pages, published February 2004, ISBN: 0-595-31305-1 is about creating genealogy
projects from a wide variety of intergenerational writing.
It contains helpful strategies and techniques on oral history interviewing, recording, and archiving or making gifts from many different types of genealogy projects. Presented are various strategies and projects to do. Create multimedia or keepsake heirlooms, time capsules, and albums. Genealogy journalism projects also include recording life story video to connect generations.
The book also is about recording salable life stories and family histories in a variety of formats: print, video, and multimedia, and in genres such as drama, poetry, music, novels, diaries, life stories, news features, and
personal or corporate histories. It''s creative genealogy and about launching salable life stories and personal histories.
Does preserving, recording, and writing family history memorabilia sow the seeds of adequacy and security for progeny because the advertising industry sells product by doing the opposite? Intergenerational writing is about recording salable life stories and family histories in a variety of formats: print, video, and multimedia, and in genres such as drama, poetry, music, novels, diaries, life stories, news features, and personal or corporate histories.
Your purpose can be the following: closure and harmony, remembering good old times, making keepsake memorabilia. Writing and recording the highlights of peoples'' lives is about who we are. Browse the book at the publisher’s Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-31305-1.
There also are many articles on personal history journalism and genealogy writing strategis on the author''s Web site at http://annehart.tripod.com. There also is a personal history course and genealogy syllabus on the author''s Web site on one of the links marked "Personal History Course."