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Writing Your Family History | |
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What Is a Family History? | |
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The Difference Between You and Everybody Else | |
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The Difference Between Great-Granny and Annie Oakley | |
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Gone with the Wind | |
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The Difference Between Family History and Genealogy | |
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Love Letter to the Future | |
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Going Beyond Genealogy | |
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Stories, Stories, Stories | |
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You-Shaped Destiny | |
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Plot of Our Lives | |
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Stories 'R' Us | |
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You, O Storyteller | |
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What Kind of Family History Should You Write? | |
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Author! Author! | |
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Inner Family History | |
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Your Own Family Shaped Invention | |
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Journal Your Journey | |
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Journal Jogged Memories | |
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Journals 1, 2, 3 | |
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A Journal Guarantee | |
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Journal Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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How Big Is Your Appetite? | |
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Focus, Focus, Focus | |
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How's Your Ancestral Math? | |
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More and More Mores | |
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Great-Grandparent Tally | |
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In Search of Missing Grannies | |
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Ready, Set, Go Genealogy | |
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Becoming Your Family's Investigative Journalist | |
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Climbing Your Family Tree | |
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The Paper Trail Overview | |
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Primary Sources | |
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Secondary Sources | |
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Scoping Out Your Paper Trail | |
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You as Your Great-Granny | |
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Researching Baby Steps | |
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The Forest for the Trees | |
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Tools for the Task | |
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Pedigree Chart | |
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First Genealogical Writing Lesson | |
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Pedigree Chart Tips | |
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Family Group Record | |
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Individual Ancestor Record | |
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Descendant Charts/Drop Charts | |
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Research Log | |
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Correspondence Log | |
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Historical Research Timelines | |
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Computer, Typewriter, Pencil | |
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In Praise of the Printed Page | |
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Let's Talk Note-Taking | |
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Now What? | |
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Which Way to Go? | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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Getting It Right from the Get-Go | |
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The Name Game | |
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A Boy Named Shirley | |
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Got the Right Ancestor? | |
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Geographical Check | |
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Learning from the County | |
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Don't Believe Everything You Read | |
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Proof and More Proof | |
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Sloppy Genealogy | |
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Do You Have Standards? | |
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But What About a Great Story? | |
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Journaling Along the Genealogical Trail | |
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Where to Begin | |
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First Step Back | |
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All About You | |
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The Late, Great You | |
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Yourself in History's Parade | |
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Filling In/Filling Out | |
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Second Step Back | |
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Look Backward | |
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Third Step Back | |
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Look to Both Sides | |
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Fourth Step Back | |
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Looking Around Town | |
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Looking "Home" | |
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Guess What? | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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Looking in All the Right Places--at Home | |
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In Your Memories | |
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Heirlooms Tell Tales | |
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Old Junk Tells Tales, Too | |
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Mom and Dad's Attic | |
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Saved from Garage Sale | |
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At Weddings and Funerals | |
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Crazy Aunt Edna's Stories and Why You Hated Them | |
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Interviewing (Crazy Aunt Edna Has Her Day) | |
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Your Own Memories, Revisited | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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The Family Investigator on the Case | |
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How to Research Like a Sleuth | |
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How to Think Like an Historian | |
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How to Report Like a Reporter | |
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Looking in All the Right Places--Library and Beyond | |
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You, the Genealogical Juggler | |
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Library Research | |
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Census Research | |
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National Archives | |
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Military Research | |
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Immigration Research | |
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Land Records | |
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An Internet Adventure | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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Looking in All the Right Places--in Hometowns | |
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Searching for Your Schmoes | |
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The Hometown Library | |
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The Daily Hometown Tattler | |
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Courthouse Research | |
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Cemetery Research | |
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Following the Literal Trail | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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Getting Organized | |
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Writing All the Right People Right | |
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Your Collateral Ancestors' Value | |
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Cousin Connection | |
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Saving Your Ancestors | |
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Reaching Out | |
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Letters, We Get Letters | |
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Becoming a Superb Correspondent | |
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What a Good Letter Can Do | |
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Simplify, Simplify | |
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Do Your Homework | |
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Thank-You Letters | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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Your Do's and Don'ts Checklist | |
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Do Find Letters | |
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Don't Let Time Slip-Slide Away | |
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Don't Ignore Your Crazy Aunt Ednas | |
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Do Collect All Those Old Photographs | |
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Don't Let Your Organization Go | |
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Do Browse | |
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Do Use Common Sense | |
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Don't Be Afraid to Ask for Help | |
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Don't Take Help Without Question | |
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Don't Be Tempted by Relative Shortcuts | |
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Do Let Your Curiosity Be Your Guide | |
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Do Respond to Responses | |
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Don't Treat Computers as Filing Cabinets | |
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Do Treat the Internet as a Big Index | |
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Don't Believe in Generic Genealogy | |
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And That Goes Double for Heraldry | |
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Do Find and Use Ethnic Resources | |
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Do Check Lesser-Known Resources | |
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Kissing Kin, Black Sheep, and Granny Gaps | |
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Granny Scandal or Granny Romance? | |
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Your Personal Black Sheep | |
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How to Handle Family Secrets | |
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Why They're Called "Kissin' Cousins" | |
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Alive vs. Dead | |
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Myth vs. Reality | |
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Bridging Your Granny Gaps | |
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How Much Is Enough? | |
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How Big Should You Go? | |
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What Were Those Formats Again? | |
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Oh, No! Where Did That Paper Go? | |
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Creating an Index | |
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Creating Your "Oriental Box" | |
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Computer Filing Cabinet | |
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What About Those Genealogical Numbers? | |
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Dueling Number Systems | |
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Where Does It End? | |
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For Future "Trekkers" | |
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About That Extra Room | |
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Creative Jumpstarts | |
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Evoking Your Memories | |
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Your Own Oral History | |
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Exercises to Remember | |
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Stirring Up the Memories | |
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Learning to Wax Philosophical | |
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Topics Galore | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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Telling Your Own Stories | |
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Cross-Training Is Good for You | |
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You're Just Warming Up | |
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Listing Your Memories | |
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Your Description Warm-Up: How Did They Look? | |
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Your Characterization Warm-Up: How Did They Act? | |
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Your Dialogue Warm-Up: What Did They Say? | |
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Your Dramatic Tension Warm-Up: What Happens Next? | |
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Your Tense Warm-Up: When Did It Happen? | |
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Your Tone Warm-Up: What's Funny About Humor? | |
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Using Reflective Humor | |
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When Funny Can Be Serious | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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Telling Other People's Stories | |
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What to Do with Crazy Aunt Edna's Memories | |
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Listing Your Memories | |
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More Cross-Training Exercises | |
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A Whole New Point of View | |
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Ready, Set, Exercise: Point-of-View Warm-Up | |
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Choosing Where to Begin | |
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Ready, Set, Exercise: Beginning Warm-Up | |
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The Value of Writing Short | |
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Ready, Set, Exercise: 2,500/500 Words Warm-Up | |
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Your Description Warm-Up: How Did They Look? | |
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Ready, Set, Exercise: Description | |
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Ready, Set, Exercise: More Description | |
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Your Characterization Warm-Up: How Did They Act? | |
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Ready, Set, Exercise: Characterization | |
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Your Dialogue Warm-Up: What Did They Say? | |
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Ready, Set, Exercise: Homework and Imagination | |
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Dramatic Tension Warm-Up: What Happens Next? | |
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Ready, Set, Exercise: "And Then..." | |
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Ready, Set, Exercise: Action/Reaction | |
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Getting Serious About Humor | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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Time to Structure | |
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Revisiting Formats and Focus | |
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Revisiting Your Pile of Research | |
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Your Work Is Talking to You | |
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Reassessing Your "Readership" | |
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Your Format Test-Drive | |
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Flexing Your New Writing Muscles | |
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Journaling Down the Genealogical Trail | |
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Ready, Set, Write | |
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Finally, Finally Writing | |
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Making It Happen | |
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Getting Serious | |
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Remembering Key Concepts | |
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The Bugaboo of "Purple Prose" | |
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The Glory of Restraint | |
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That Wonderful Format | |
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The Miracle of Outlining | |
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You Know the Drill | |
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Your Format and Your Outline | |
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Your Outline--Where Are You Going? | |
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Do It Again | |
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Hushing Your Internal Nitpicker (for Now) | |
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Progress Report | |
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Imagining the Telling | |
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Reviewing Your Research | |
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That Wonderful Format | |
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The Boon of Reading Historical Nonfiction/Fiction | |
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The Bane of Reading Historical Fiction | |
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Putting Words into Your Ancestor's Mouth | |
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Allegedly, He Said | |
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Imagining a Life | |
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Imagining Your Ancestor's Diary | |
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How Much Freedom? | |
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Progress Report | |
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How to Start | |
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And You're Off--Beginnings | |
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Hooks | |
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Them, Not You--Avoiding Self-Indulgence | |
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Editing Your Genealogical Slide Show | |
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Ending the Beginning | |
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What Lies Ahead | |
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Progress Report | |
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Getting It on Paper | |
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After the Beginning--What? | |
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The Miracle of Outlining, Revisited | |
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It's Over When It's Over | |
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Writing Parts of the Whole | |
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Ready, Set, Write Something | |
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Gagging the Internal Nitpicker | |
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Time and Place, Revisited | |
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Avoiding Muddle in the Middle | |
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A Jumpstart Trick for Tomorrow | |
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Eyes Too Big for Your Stomach | |
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Ready, Set, First Draft | |
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Progress Report | |
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Making Your Writing Sing | |
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Mistakes You Won't Make | |
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Being Reference Sloppy | |
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Progress Report | |
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Writing Is Rewriting | |
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Free from That Whirling Dervish | |
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Dead Give-Aways | |
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Your Writing Process | |
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Some Self-Tests | |
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Your Ancestors' Eyes | |
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Beginning, Middle, End | |
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Who Do You Trust? (Feedback) | |
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Progress Report | |
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Editing--Unleashing Your Internal Nitpicker | |
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Your Internal Nitpicker (a.k.a. Your Inner Editor) | |
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You Are the Camera | |
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Nits Needing Picked Checklist--Going Beyond Spellcheck | |
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The Usual Suspects | |
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Some Unusual Suspects | |
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More Nits Needing Picked--Playing in the Professional/Amateur | |
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Who Do You Trust? (Proofreader) | |
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Progress Report | |
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Publish or Perish? | |
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Why a Book Endures and Why You Care | |
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What Is Your True Purpose? | |
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Size Doesn't Matter | |
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Making It Look Like a Book | |
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Magazine Publishing | |
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Want to Try the Big-Time? | |
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Self-Publishing | |
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Be Proud; Say It Loud | |
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Progress Report | |
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Appendixes | |
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BookMarks--for Further Reference | |
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Sample Forms | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |