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How-to checklist: Journals and personal histories

Published: Saturday, July 24, 1999

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  1. Keep a regular journal; consider various ways to record history.

  2. Be diverse, creative; use pictures, include songs, poems.

  3. Take advantage of technology, use computer, disks, if possible.

  4. Save letters as a living history of the family.