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Reminiscences

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A Few Examples of Reminiscences

Reminiscences can be written by anyone, no matter what their age. Often, though, reminiscences are written later in life,

reflecting back on a person's life history,
talking about a smaller period in their life (their years in college or the military, for example)
discussing a specific event that they have personal knowledge of,
describing what they know of their family and memories of various members of the family, or one specific family member, such as their mother or father.

You can find many examples of reminiscences about women at:

We Remember: Reminiscences About Recently Deceased Jewish Women Who Made a Difference in Our World,

Reminiscences can range from a few handwritten or typed pages to full-length memoirs that may even have been self-published and bound like a book.

"My Life," by Eva George Ritchey, describes her youth in Vermont, her family's migration to North Dakota and their early hardships and later successes there, and her marriage and subsequent move to River Falls, Wisconsin.

(River Falls SC 151, University of Wisconsin-River Falls Area Research Center, River Falls, Wisconsin)

Twilight Memories, autobiographical reminiscences by Martha Weitkamp, written for the edification of her descendants. She describes her childhood on farms in Nebraska, neighbors, school experiences, medical matters, her maternal rand paternal relatives, and the family of her husband, Bill Weitkamp.

(Twilight Memories, River Falls SC 416, University of Wisconsin-River Falls Area Research Center, River Falls, Wisconsin)

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