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Getting into the personal history business

Demand is growing for personal historians who can help clients craft polished narratives - but actually making the time-intensive projects pay off is challenging, pros warn.

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There's a growing interest in what some call "personal histories" these days, says Jim Cooper, a film producer and director who runs Socratic Productions, in Barrington, N.H.

Whether it's the portable audio recording stations erected by the nonprofit StoryCorps across the country, or sons and daughters capturing their aging parents for posterity, personal biographies of one sort or another have become a prominent part of the American zeitgeist, Cooper said.

The personal-history industry has even its own trade group. The Association of Personal Historians (APH) is a nonprofit professional organization for personal historians in North America.
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