Your career. Your experiences in the sixties. Your parent’s struggles in the thirties. Your grandmother’s journey to Ellis Island. You great- grandfather’s life as a trapper. Your great-great-grandfather’s clash with the enemy at Gettysburgs. Maybe they never made the papers, but you still have an interesting family. You must write about it. Turn to this book to find out how. Writting Family Histories and Memoirs is both a research guide and a manual on how to turn what you discover into a book.