Life History: Christmas Present for all Cyber Monday

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

My present to you is a file that will help you write an outline of you life that you can use to prepare to write a life history, or just keep as an outline.

Outline a Life: Hour by Hour

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Several years ago, I taught a genealogy class with these forms. One of the students stated that her sister-in-law had cancer with only a few months to live. She was thrilled with these pages as her sister-in-law had wanted to record some of her life for her children but had no idea on how to begin.

This booklet is to help you write out a person’s life in a brief outline to be used for your life or the life of someone else. The outline process gives you a way to start writing a life history by breaking down and dividing the huge task into little tasks to make the whole process easier. These tasks can be done an hour at a time, whether an hour once a week or once a day. Once you have an outline finished, then start expanding on each subject an hour at a time to write the book! I would suggest taking one subject to write for an hour once a week.

Each page is a foundation for writing a part of someone’s life. These layouts can help you organize life before writing. These organization pages act as a timeline of the life of an ancestor as well as a layout for writing the life history book.

Once a page is filled out you can expand on each item on that page. Once all the pages here are filled out and you have expanded on each, you have a full life history book. This layout could also be the foundation for making videos of your life.