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Don’t Miss New PBS Series

by Memoir Mentor on January 31, 2010 · 0 comments

Beginning Wednesday, February 10, PBS will broadcast Faces of America, an inspiring new genealogy series hosted by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who last year produced the much admired documentary African American Lives. In this new series, Gates shows how the latest tools of genealogy and genetics helped trace the ancestors of 12 famous [...]

Tagged as: Faces of America, Family History, Genealogy, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Strut Your Stuff

by Memoir Mentor on December 8, 2009 · 0 comments

I don’t know about you, but competition really gets my juices going. I’d do anything in school to get a gold star on the teacher’s chart. Competition helps me cut through the pull of procrastination and the seductiveness of sloth.
If you can relate, consider submitting one of your stories to a writing competition? There are several looking for submissions in [...]

Tagged as: International Society of Family History Writers and Editors, life-story-writing, memoir, Ohio Genealogy Society, personal-history, Southern California Genealogy Society, writing tips

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Remembering Harry Nelson

by Memoir Mentor on November 9, 2009 · 0 comments

Many of you were touched and inspired by Betty Nelson’s  powerful story I posted last month. The story focused on Betty’s struggle to come to terms with the imminent death of her dear husband, Harry. I thought you would like to know that Betty contacted me today to report that Harry peacefully passed away early Sunday morning after being in [...]

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