Articles on preserving personal and family histories for future generations. Covers memoir writing, family archives, and the process of capturing life experiences in formats that endure. Connected to ghostwriting memoir projects for clients who want their stories preserved professionally.
In his nineties I sat with my grandfather and his lifetime of journals to write his memoir, and discovered the story I grew up on, that he survived Bataan, was wrong; the truth was a march through Manila, no less harrowing. Family narratives drift. Here is how to turn a lifetime of stories into a memoir, and how to tell which memories hold up.
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