What Is a Personal Historian?

A personal historian is trained to help you create and preserve family stories.

As a personal historian I can help you manage a life history project from beginning to end, lead workshops to help a group create their personal history projects, help you write an ethical will and many other projects.

What are some of the projects that I can help you with?

• Ethical Will - a legacy document presenting your philosophies, values and advice
• Memorials - a final tribute to the life of someone dear to you, digital format on CD or DVD, including audio, video, still photographs, documents, etc.
• Printed Works - biographies, self-published projects, published book complete with photos and family documents written

Speaking Topics

Let me provide an entertaining program for your club or organization. You may find a topic below appropriate for your group, or I can customize a specific talk.

Joining a Lineage Society

Writing a Family Genealogy Newsletter

• Journaling Your Grief
• Writing a Genealogical Codicil
• How to Organize Your Genealogy Research
• Learning Legacy Software
• Writing an Ethical Will

• How NOT to Use PowerPoint (and Learn Effective PowerPoint Design)

• An American Woman on African Safari
• Taking Photos You'll Want to Look at Later

Treat Gently, This Gentle Man: A Daughter's Prayers

This book is a resource for discussion groups focusing on end of life issues or for an individual exploring his or her own feelings and experiences of losing a parent.

Now available at Amazon.com .