For All Time: A Complete Guide to Writing Your Family History
<P>Family history writing can take many forms--a short essay or narrative introduction to a collection of family letters, long captions comprising a family photo history, a biography of parents and a narrative of their life together, an autobiography, or even a family newsletter. This sensible and accessible book is for those who want to do a little writing as well as for those who want to do a lot.</P> <P>Kempthorne shows how easy it is to write family history and how much fun it can be. He illustrates in detail how to:</P> <LI>write narratives and dialogue</LI> <LI>use physical details in a scene to make it come alive</LI> <LI>create suspense</LI> <LI>use many other techniques frequently employed by historians and novelists.</LI> <P>By the end of the book, readers will not only gain a thorough understanding of how to write family history, but will have completed a number of sketches to entertain and enrich their families.</P>