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Tips for Writing Your Autobiography

June 7, 2009 — 1 Comment

Secrets, Trauma, and Ethics: Navigating Difficult Truths in Narrative Nonfiction

A chapter excerpt from The Story in the Records: Turning Genealogy Research into Compelling Stories by Karen Yvonne Hamilton Every family archive contains fault lines. As you push past names and dates into deeper documentary layers—court dockets, asylum registers, bastardy bonds, chancery suits, prison rolls, coroners’ inquests, and DNA match tables—you will inevitably unearth truths…

by Karen Yvonne Hamilton October 4, 2026October 4, 2026

One Memory, One Story

A Lifetales Media personal history service Every family has a story someone keeps meaning to write down. It might be the journey that brought a parent to a new home, the work a grandparent took pride in, a childhood place everyone remembers, or a turning point that changed a life. One Story, Beautifully Told helps…

by Karen Yvonne Hamilton September 30, 2026

Will Our Family Photos Disappear into the Cloud?

The cloud can help us keep our photographs. We have to make sure our families can inherit them.

by Karen Yvonne Hamilton September 28, 2026September 28, 2026