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Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball (Random House)
Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History by Helen Epstein (Plume)
Family by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus & Ciroux)
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Halfway Home: A Granddaughter’s Biography by Mary Logue (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Cottonwood Roots by Kem Luther (University of Nebraska Press)
For the record toolkit
GUIDEBOOKS FOR ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWING
• Record and Remember: Tracing Your Roots Through Oral History by Ellen Epstein and Jane Lewit (Scarborough House)
• Recording Your Family History: A Guide to Preserving Oral History with Videotape, Audiotape, Suggested Topics and Questions, Interview Techniques by William Fletcher (Ten Speed Press)
• Video Family History by Duane and Pat Strum (Ancestry Publishing)
GUIDEBOOKS FOR WRITING LIFE STORIES
• Family Tales, Family Wisdom: How to Gather the Stories of a Lifetime and Share Them with Your Family by Robert U. Akeret and Daniel Klein (Henry Holt)
• Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art by Judith Barrington (The Eighth Mountain Press)
• Writing Personal Essays: How to Shape Your Life Experiences for the Page by Sheila Bender (Writer’s Digest Books)*
• Reaching Back: A Workbook for Recording Your Life’s Most Meaningful Moments to Share with Future Generations by Alice Chapin (Betterway Books)*
• From Memories to Manuscript: The Five Step Method of Writing Your Life Story by Joan Neubauer (Ancestry Publishing)
• Writing Family Histories and Memoirs by Kirk Polking (Writer’s Digest Books)*
• Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach (Story Press)*
• Writing from Within: A Guide to Creativity and Life Story Writing by Bernard Selling (Hunter House)
• How to Write the Story of Your Life by Frank P. Thomas (Writer’s Digest Books)*
Books with an asterisk * can be ordered directly online via the Family Tree Magazine Web site <www.familytreemagazine.com>
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