Writing Family Histories

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself into the life and history of the time.”

Francis Parkman

Kirk Woosley Patton of Fincastle Ancestry Research is an experienced writer of family histories with more than twenty years of experience searching for ancestors in courthouses, churches, cemeteries, libraries and archives throughout Kentucky and the United States. He is available upon contract to assist with writing family narratives.

A sample Fee & Contract form is available for review.

Photograph of Kentucky scene by Debbie Sands Woodard