Family History
August 25, 2020
This year I’ve been teaching creative writing and academic writing at Sheridan College, a small, not-for-profit, tertiary institution in Perth. Recently, I was chatting to my students about COVID-19 and the idea that we are living through an historical time. And I asked them what they would like researchers in the future to know about […]
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January 7, 2020
Although these prompts could be done any time, the beginning of the year seems a great time to reconnect with your memoir or family history project. You may still be in holiday mode, or just trying to motivate yourself to get going again after the Christmas break. None of these involve much writing, but all […]
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November 5, 2019
Have you ever considered recording your life story? Or would you’d like to see the life of someone you love or admire recorded for future generations? Now, while I’m really happy to be employed to record someone’s story, what would be even better is teaching you how to conduct an interview or oral history yourself. […]
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June 11, 2019
I’ve recently been running a series of workshops on writing memoir and family history at the City of Vincent Library and Local History Centre. In our first session, I led participants through a series of activities to help them stare down the blank page and start writing. It was fabulous to see just how many […]
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November 8, 2018
‘Strange as it may seem, the one desire a normal young man had in the year 1915 was to go out to France to get killed. Of course, he did not think of it in those terms, his consuming obsession was to reach the front in time not to miss all the fun.’ These are […]
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August 28, 2018
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, the family history community is mostly a supportive and encouraging bunch. Along with my writing community, it’s a refreshing change to much of the current trolling and negativity that exists in some corners of social media. Along with a presence on social media, a growing number of family historians keep track […]
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