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Our first featured article. We are looking for those who want to have their stories recorded as well as members who would like to join our association. 

Storyical Podcasts by Peta Roberts – listed also on our resources page Storyical inspires you to turn your stories into life histories. Find out what works by life story professionals (including from our members Paul English and his wife Alison Crossley, and Gillian Ednie) who share practical advice for you to capture your life story. Take […]

Easter is a time celebrated by more than Christian people. In countries all around the world, it’s a long holiday weekend, and with the extra time allowed for travel, many cultures and faiths get the rare opportunity to gather and enjoy the company of both young and old. So, what are you going to do? […]

Welcome Libby, a professional ghostwriter, specialising in life stories/memoirs. Libby has 40 years experience as a journalist, editor, writer and published author with more than 35 published works including several best-selling books. A busy professional, Libby travels nationally and internationally for clients.  Libby wrote Turia Pitt’s best selling memoir ‘Everything to Live For’ (Random House 2013) […]

What kind of detective are you? Do you enjoy research – starting off with one tiny fact and discovering that it leads on to an entire new subject/person? Do you know if another family member has started a family tree that includes you and your family? Why not make a start on your own family […]

There are bios, and there are kick-arse accounts of someone’s life. So, what makes a bum-kicking bio or memoir enjoyable to read? Is it the story-what happened to the subject-born in a concentration camp, survived three global conflicts, and married a prince? Or is it because we need to know about the private life of some […]

A vital element of recording and preserving your family stories is gathering all of your family’s family documents: birth, marriage & death certificates back to at least your maternal and paternal grandparents and forward to your grandchildren. Have you worked out a system for storing and saving these invaluable paper documents? Initially a simple drop […]

A friend in Canada emailed me recently, where he lamented his mother’s recent unexpected death. He, like I, works as a personal historian – a professional who interviews living people about their life stories and preserves them for the future as a family legacy. His sorrow was compounded by the fact that he hadn’t taken time […]