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Publishing & Writing archives.gov/genealogy - A government site that provides a treasure trove of resources and information about conducting genealogical research cartoonbank.com - Cartoons for reprint at reasonable prices from The New Yorker doverpublications.com - Copyright-free graphics, thousands of them frugalmarketing.com - Shel Horowitz provides marketing services, information, and advice for self-publishing authors griffinbookbinding.com - Beautiful work by UK-trained David H. Barry, including boxes and slipcases for multiple volumes heritagecookbook.com - This company makes it relatively easy to create collaborative (or personal) recipe books, including accompanying text and photos heritagemakers.com - A pyramid-style company sells template-based printing services for simple books, similar to iPhoto books jewishgen.org - A free website with databases, research tools, and other resources for Jewish genealogical research jwa.org/stories/how-to - Jewish Women’s Archives, an organization that honors Jewish women’s stories and provides how-to guidelines for conducting oral history interviews, especially with Jewish women kirstentranscribes.com - Kirsten Transcribes transcribes interviews or monologues with great care and sensitivity, and also types documents including basically indecipherable, handwritten letters. It just so happens that Kirsten is my oldest daughter! loc.gov/vets/kitmenu.html - How-to kits for conducting interviews, especially with veterans lifeofmine.com - One of many subscription-based services that sell web storage of files (customers pay by the month or year for this type of service) militaryscrapbooks.com - Robert Holliker, USAF, Retired, provides acid-free albums (scrapbook style) to hold memorabilia for all branches of the U.S. military mssticks.com - Ms. Sticks creates homemade walking sticks with your information (and designs of your choice) carved in one or more colors legacy.com - The Tribune Company offers sign-in guest books, information about funerals. linkedin.com-memoirs - Memoirs, A Way to be Remembered: Your experiences and reflections; your heroes and heroines; your teachers; your challenges; your legacy. Remembering and honoring your experiences in a long-lasting form calls to mind the ancient saying, "Teach us to remember our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom." linkedin.com-publish - Self-publish Your Book: The group is designed to help participants in writing, editing, designing, formatting, printing, and binding processes. nhbindery.com - Traditional craftsmanship for the modern age, including speckling, staining, or gilding page edges oralhistory.org - Oral History Association promotes academically oriented interviews for historical purposes as a way of collecting and interpreting human memories to foster knowledge and human dignity parapublishing.com - Dan Poynter provides information for self-publishing authors about every aspect of self-publishing, including design, format, pre-press, copyrights, marketing, distribution of books personalhistorians.org - Association of Personal Historians, a professional trade association open to anyone with an interest in the personal history phenomenon pma-online.org - Publishers Marketing Association, a membership organization that provides resources, education, and networking for small to medium size publishers, including an annual conference and hundreds of vendors www.ppu.org.uk/poppy - White Poppies for a Culture of Peace, based in the UK, says, "There are better ways to resolve conflicts than killing strangers. Our work, primarily educational, draws attention to many of our social values and habits which make continuing violence a likely outcome… Now 90 years after the end of the ‘war to end all wars’ we still have a long way to go to put an end to a social institution which in the last decade alone killed over 10 million children." publishmemoir.wordpress.com - I’m working on it. My blog. rootsweb.ancestry.com - This appears to be the leader of the pack in terms of genealogy databases rtrfoundation.org - Routes to Roots provides Jewish genealogical and other research in Eastern Europe, among other services sanddunebooks.com - One of many companies offering fill-in-the-blank journals, but this one provides an impressive range of pre-printed questions to answer songlegacy.com - This company writes songs and ballads based on your personal history and sends an MP3 performance (voice and piano) download, an illustrated lyric sheet, and a CD cover spannet.org - Small Publishers Association of North America, a membership organization that provides resources, education, and networking for independent and non-profit publishers as well as self-publishing authors storycorps.net - helps people tape a 15-minute interview with a friend or family member for free; significant fees are imposed for additional time, services, equipment rental storyhelp.com - Tristine Rainer and the Center for Autobiographical Studies, based in California, offer outstanding classes, retreats, web-based writing groups, and a newsletter TenMillionEyeballs.com or bookmarket.com - John Kremer provides marketing services, information, and advice for self-publishing authors turningmemories.com - Denis Ledoux and the Soleil Lifestory Network, based in northern Maine, offer practical writing tele-classes, coaching, and other services; franchising opportunities whitepoppypress.com - White Poppy Press, The Sensible Way to Self-Publish is our imprint for do-it-yourself authors who want straight talk, affordable prices, and personal service |
