Writing Your Family History by Gill Blanchard

This book is a practical step by step guide for anyone wanting to bring their ancestors' stories to life.  It looks at how to deal with gaps in knowledge, how to describe generations of people who did the same jobs or lived in the same area, how to cover the numerous births, marriages and deaths that occur, and when to stop researching and start writing.

Gill's book provides examples to help readers with their own writing style, deal with family, missing pieces of information, such as adding local and social history context. Exercises are a key feature of the text.

Gill is an experienced family and local history researcher, teacher and lecturer.