"We're seeing an increase both in the number of people who want to do personal historian work and an increase in the number of elders who want to be sure their stories are handed down," says Paula Stahel, president of the Association of Personal Historians. Armed with notebooks, tape recorders, and video cameras, they are coaxing a lifetime of memories from beloved relatives. Across the country, people like Ellis form a growing cottage industry of amateurs and professionals eager to preserve the experiences of older generations. In this age of the memoir, not all fascinating lives belong to notable individuals. "This seemed like an easy and practical way of capturing them." "You hear these stories over the years, but nobody ever really gets around to writing them down," says Mr. But this year, eager to keep those memories alive, he hired a personal historian to interview his father and mother.
Like most people, Hedrick Ellis grew up listening to his parents and grandparents tell family stories.
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