Our talented members help individuals, families, communities and organizations to record and save precious memories and stories -- your unique and very personal history. Find a Personal Historian who suits your needs now.

Are you considering a career as a Personal Historian?

APH members learn from and support each other in this fast-developing and eminently satisfying work. Whether your background or interest is in writing, video, communications, social work, gerontology (or something else), our collegial community of seasoned and experienced professionals is sure to provide the stimulus and array of resources necessary to further develop your skills. Join Now to reap the benefits of membership in APH.

APH's new anthology—a model of memoir writing and family stories, plus tips on how to do it yourself. A great read, too!

Read more - the Foreword, Review, & Interview My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History is a collection of delightful, compelling, and moving stories straight from life—49 stories that demonstrate memoir’s power to entertain and to convert experience into wisdom and growth. “At last, a collection that shows the ‘why, what, and how’ behind memoir as legacy.”
~ Susan Wittig Albert, author of Writing from Life.

Excerpts from several stories

Practical tips and insights about writing life stories

More about My Words Are Gonna Linger - the Foreword, Review, & Interview

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Are you a Military Veteran?

The Association of Personal Historians is a proud partner of the Library of Congress: Veterans History Project. As partners, we help collect first-person accounts of military service in World War I, World War II, the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. We also collect stories of civilians who supported these efforts, including men and women who worked in defense-related industries, as USO entertainers, and as Red Cross workers.

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