Former Business Reporter Turns To Personal Histories: Three Things You Should Know



Jennifer Bott VanderWeele was once a business reporter for the Detroit Free Press. Now, she and another writer have started Your Personal Memoir LLC, a company that helps people document and preserve their family history.

Bott VanderWeele interviews family members to create personal life story books complete with photos, recipes, or other memorabilia. The books aren’t intended to be “published” (aka on bookshelves or on Amazon.com): instead, they’re family keepsakes like photo albums, she says.

She spoke with Poynter.org

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