Storytelling: How to Write an Inspiring Memoir, Oral History, or Family Genealogy

How to capture stories for memoirs about yourself, someone else in your family or your ancestors. Delaplane brings over twenty years of experience to this book in showing how she gathers stories from her celebrity clients and researches their history for custom-bound heirloom books. Topics covered are researching and organizing a project. Procedures for conducting oral history interviews. Crafting spellbinding anecdotes making them come alive. Important tips on how to best preserve photographs and other family memorabilia and proper conservation and archiving practices. Genealogy research tips and the most readable presentations for your genealogy results. Publishing and printing options.