As people grow elderly, they often wish they could create a permanent record of their lifetime, and have it there for their children and grandchildren down the ages.

Here you can you record a complete life history for an elderly parent or write their Family History. Better still, encourage them to get computer-literate and do it themselves! 

And what is so great about this site, is that after its published, you are able to add new info or photos or amend errors and omissions - all those niggly little things (like getting some of the rellies names wrong) that can never be fixed when you have your work published in book form. Everything here can be amended, any time, by  you, the password holder.

If you want to have a look at a personal life history click on Search Archives and enter Herbert James Lawson. That history is published in two chapters.

Each publication is limited to 5000 words and 10 photos so if you have lots to tell, break it into chapters- and publish one chapter at a time.

Also, as you publish each chapter, they go into Current Notices for 14 days, so let all your family know that its published - better still, get them to put the name on Email Alert so they get automatically emailed.

Please remember to include your name as author- the copyright is vested in you automatically and nobody without your permission may copy it.

You can take as much time as you like on your draft - days, weeks or months. Your work is automatically saved every 60 seconds.

Have fun!

P.S. Publishing Hints below are for help if you want to get a lottle more fancy in what you publish, and you will need it for line-breaks in poetry. For straight-forward text, you can safely ignore it.

Publishing Hints.

There is nothing at all difficult about publishing a notice or history. Its really just simply typing it in. However, there are one or two things you need to keep in mind. For a start, the text you type in will always be continuous, even if you click on "enter"(its the program we use). So the following Hints are to help you make your publication look the way you want it to.

#1. To start a new line (as opposed to letting our program do it as each line gets full), you must type in <br> exactly like that at the end of the line where you want the break, and the line will "break" at that point and restart on the immediate next line. This is especially necessary if you are typing poetry for example, or reported speech.

If you just want a new paragraph break, all you need to do is double click on Enter.

#2. To create a Bold heading (or make some text bold), press Ctrl and B at the same time. This will then show on your screen as <B></B> and your cursor should be blinking in the middle. If it is not, move it there. Then simply type in the words you want to be bold.

Now, this is very important- when you have completed the words you want bold- you must move the cursor to the right of </B>. Until that is done, everything you carry on typing will stay bold.

It is possible to go back to some text you have already typed and make it bold. If you want to do this, select the words you want bold by running your cursor over the text you want bold while holding the click down (this will make the selected text black), press Ctrl and B which will put <B> and </B> around the words, and then move the cursor back to where you want to continue typing.

If this is a heading and you want it on a seperate line, enter it as in #1 above.

#3. To create a footnote, press Ctrl and N at the same time. This will show as <FOOTNOTE_1> <FOOTNOTE1>on your screen with your cursor blinking in the middle. Type in your footnote, and remember to move your cursor to the right of the second <FOOTNOTE> when you have finished the footnote to return you to the text you are typing. Each Footnote is numbered consecutively automatically. 

To view your footnotes when you are working on the text, you will find them in numerical order at the bottom of all you have typed. They can be deleted (the numbers automatically readjust), or edited.

If later, you wish to insert another footnote anywhere in your text, click your cursor at the point you want it and simply repeat #3. The numbers will automatically adjust.