Examples from Three Family
Histories
The three family history books
shown here are based upon the transcripts of oral history interviews
and are accompanied by CD-ROMs which hold much additional material,
such as family documents, photographs, movie clips and audio
files. The CDs also contain the text and images of the books
themselves, as well as digital audio recordings of the interviews.
The "Digital Archiving
of Family History" contains a wide range of family history
materials from these family history CD archives, representing a variety of digital
archiving techniques and procedures.
Two of the works, the "Marjory
B. Farquhar Family History" and the "Paula K. Brings
Personal History," are of our own families and consequently
we are able to use them here. Over the several years we worked
on Martha H.Schluter's project we became very close friends and
she has graciously granted us permission to publish material
from her family history as well.
It should be noted that for
obvious reasons of privacy the more personal audio files, photographs,
and documents in these family histories have not been used.