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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 | |