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[19 Mar 2012 | Comments Off | ]
Memoir Reunites Cousins Separated 70 Years Ago

It all happened because one of these first cousins, separated by the Holocaust when they were young boys, wrote a memoir that the other one happened to see. What a dramatic story illustrating the power of writing down your family history!

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[8 Feb 2012 | Comments Off | ]
Record a Personal History & Stop the World

Why we take the time and make the effort to record people’s stories, their personal histories.

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[5 Dec 2011 | Comments Off | ]
Personal Historian

Have you dreamed about recording a parent’s story? Or about writing your family’s history, and the path it took over the decades – now, while your grandparents can still tell you what they know? How about documenting the history of a company you built up from nothing, or recording the life of a long-beloved family home?

This is where a personal historian comes in.

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[2 Mar 2011 | 2 Comments | ]
Why Personal History Projects Are Important

Hoppes perfectly captures why creating personal history projects (on paper, video or other) is important.