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At the risk of sounding like I am doing a book review instead of an article on Family History I want to introduce you to a wonderful book that is a Step-by Step guide to writing your autobiography and family history. The name of the book is,
Family Focused , written by Janice T. Dixon, Ph.D.
You'll find that Family Focused will give you so much incentive that you can hardly wait to get started. Dixon generously shares her friendly, down-to-earth advice in this remarkable guide on how to write:
Personal Histories: a first-rate guide into writing your own stories
Family Histories: Information you need to know to get started.
Journals: Viable, gratifying helps to daily writing.
Family Newsletters: Provides you with a vast array of tools and techniques.
Photograph Albums: Reveals insights for you to apply ideas to make your albums exciting and your photographs enduring.
How to Polish and Publish your Writing: Enables you to express your own ideas in your own words.
This book takes you by the hand and leads you step by step back into your own life and shows you how to put it on paper so that future generations will see you as a very real person. It is a personal book in that almost every word applies directly to you.
Janice Dixon is an award-winning writer and educator. She wrote Preserving Your
Past, with Dora Flack, published by Doubleday. Dr. Dixon has inspired classes in Personal and Family History at the Brigham Young University. She shared many of her secrets at the World Conference of records in 1980 and has continued offering her valuable and exciting insights in seminars throughout the United States.
I have read the book and have enjoyed every page in it. In this book Janice will provide you with everything you need to not only get started but to finish your family history as you live it. In my personal copy she writes, To Bonny, I hope you enjoy reading my book, but even more, I hope you enjoy writing your own. Janice Dixon.
I leave you with the same hope, that is, I hope you enjoy writing your own life story.
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