by Memoir Mentor on October 16, 2010
I flew to Salt Lake City this weekend to give presentations at a conference hosted by the Utah Chapter of the Association of Personal Historians. Before leaving California, I went online to Expedia to rent a car for the four days I would be in Utah. I picked out a cheap, no-frills compact offered by Budget [...]
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by Memoir Mentor on September 27, 2010
If you live in the Salt Lake City area, or are looking for another excuse to head that way to do some genealogy research, you should plan your schedule to take in an excellent conference, “Saving Lives, One Story at at Time,” sponsored by the Utah Chapter of the Association of Personal Historians, on October [...]
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Association of Personal Historians,
Deseret News,
One Story at a Time,
Rainey Christofferson,
Saving Lives
by Memoir Mentor on August 8, 2010
Writing is a difficult, lonely occupation, one that resurrects all kinds of insecurities. Is our writing any good, or are we just laboring under some self-delusion? Do we have anything interesting to say? Does the world need one more book? Surely our time be better spent doing something else…anything else. I have these thoughts, and I know my [...]
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autobiography,
Brigham Young University,
Carol Enos,
Chino Valley Family History and Genealogy Seminar,
Diana Kightlinger,
Genealogy,
Ivan Doig,
Jean Lechner,
life story,
life-story-writing,
Linda Missouri,
Marta Sarkissian,
personal-history
