Everything, in one file
The Complete Guide Set
Twenty-one guides. Every guide on this site in one printable file, with an introduction on how to use them and what a family history actually asks of a person.
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Guides & Manuals
Written so you can do it yourself
These are the manuals I use in my own work, written out so a family can do it themselves. Most people who buy one never hire me, which is the right outcome and the reason they are detailed.
The individual one-page guides in the resource library stay free. Always.
Manuals
Longer, for a situation you are actually in.
Last Conversations
Recording a parent when time is short. Working around fatigue, breathlessness and a ward that runs on its own schedule.
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The Congregation Anniversary Book
A working manual for a milestone year. Committee, timetable, the difficult chapter, budget and print.
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When a Congregation Closes
What must be saved when a building is sold, where it legally has to go, and how to do it in the weeks you have.
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The Illness in the Family
What a diagnosis did to a household — not the pedigree chart, but the years the chart leaves out.
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The Caregiver's Record
Recording the person who did the caring, as a life rather than as a service performed.
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The Missing Line
Adoption, donor conception and DNA surprises. What to do first, what not to do, and how to approach someone who did not ask for you.
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The Interview You Cannot Publish
When someone tells you something that cannot go in the book. How to record it, seal it, and set a date.
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Shorter guides
One task, done properly.
The Photograph Box
Four hundred photographs and no idea where to start. The part with a deadline is not the scanning.
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The Reunion Recording
Turning one gathering into a family record, without ruining the gathering.
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The House
Two hours with a phone before the clearance begins. Do not tidy first.
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The Family That Does Not Speak
Recording a history across an estrangement, without becoming the judge of it.
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The Ones Who Arrived
The last generation that remembers coming, and what they decided not to pass on.
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The One Who Will Not Talk
Refusal, deflection and silence — the ordinary condition of family history, and what to do about it.
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Every purchase is for personal or congregational use. Please do not redistribute.