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GENEii Family History Writing Contest

Posted by Gena Philibert Ortega on December 4, 2012 at 8:36am

It's coming soon -- the deadline for the GENEii Family History Writers Contest is looming. Writers have until December 31, 2012, to submit their entries for this year's contest, which is sponsored by the Southern California Genealogical Society.

The rules and regulations for this year's contest can be found on the SCGS website. Be sure to review the FAQs to get all the details.

Submissions from former years can be found on the SCGS website as well. Just click on the "GENEii Writing Contest"

Writing a Family Biography (Part 2)- A Handy Template

Posted by Lynn Palermo on February 1, 2010 at 11:40am

A Family Biography TemplateMany people shy away from including too much writing in their family history books, assuming it takes some special talent. Often this results in a quick rendition of the facts of a person's life, born, worked, married, died. Not exactly creative.Below I have prepared a simple template anyone can use to write a creative biography about an ancestor or a living relative. This template provides an added element, a family element. This tool will help you reveal not only the

Defining Today's Family

Posted by Lynn Palermo on December 7, 2009 at 4:41pm

This week, I read an article in the latest issue of NGS Magazine entitled What is a Family? by Harold E. Hinds Jr. The subject of this article was based on his Grandmother’s two bibles. These two bibles outlined two very different concepts of his family. Like many families, there were sometimes aspects of our ancestor’s lives that were considered in appropriate and so some of our relatives took it upon themselves to rewrite their families’ history.Today, we have a different situation. Our societ

A Lesson in Writing a Narrative Family History

Posted by Lynn Palermo on December 16, 2009 at 7:54am

If you are ready to start writing your family history book but not sure how to turn your research into an interesting life story then I have some tips to get you started. How do you write a descriptive, creative, narrative story about your relatives when all you have is a list of dry facts and documents to draw on? How do you turn your facts into a story about an individual you never met?Believe or not before you begin writing your family history, I am going to suggest more research. However, th

How to Determine the Size and Scope of Your Family History Book

Posted by Lynn Palermo on December 9, 2009 at 5:25pm

Last week I posted about getting your genealogy research organized so that you can get ready to start writing your family history book. By organizing your information, you should now have a better knowledge of what you have in your arsenal to create your book.The size of your family history book can vary. It may be a small booklet of a dozen photocopied pages but together in project folder to a large 200-page full colour coffee table style book. Only you can decide which challenge you are up for

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