Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fulford, D. G.

Description

1. viii, 211 pages; 19 cm

Summary

1. The authors present techniques involving hundreds of questions which will provide material for family histories. The questions range from "The house of your growing up" to "Romance and relationships" to "Hard questions: Extra credit."

Subject

1. Biography as a literary form
2. Autobiography
3. Oral biography
4. Biography
5. Biographies as Topic
6. Autobiographies as Topic
7. biographies (literary works)
8. autobiography (genre)
9. biography (general genre)
10. Autobiography
11. Biography as a literary form
12. Oral biography
13. Genealogy > Methodology
14. United States > Genealogy

Genre/Form

1. Autobiography
2. autobiographies (literary works)
3. Autobiographies
4. Autobiographies.

Contents

1. "Your story will have much more resonance for your children and grandchildren than any biography or autobiography of a famous person. It's almost startling that making this kind of personal history hasn't always been an American custom ... The most precious commodities of all -- people's own recollections of their worlds -- seldom get preserved, at least in a proper and permanent way ... The purpose of this book is to help you along the way. If you know what questions to ask yourself, the answers almost take care of themselves -- you already know them, but you may not have thought about them in a while" -- p. 1-3.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library