Memoirs & Family Histories
Your family history is worth sharing
- Are there family roots and heritage the generations should know about?
- How would you describe yourself, your family, and your lives?
- What are some of the high/low points?
- When did significant events occur?
- What words sum up your strengths, your values, and the lessons you’ve learned?
A memoir or family history book is a great link between generations
More and more people are sharing their life stories with families and friends through memoirs or family histories. These histories celebrate life and reflect the choices and forces that helped shape it. They help preserve a heritage that is easily lost if not written down.
Within a book you can preserve memories, photographs, collections, drawings, letters, voices, and relationships in meaningful and enduring ways. By chronicling your experiences and events, your personal stories will help link generations together.
Where to start
Working directly with you, we help you get started. It’s important to find the right approach to begin, develop, and complete the process. Storytelling can be the effort of one or a group project.
Some people like to write their own manuscript. Others prefer the help of a personal historian.
Personal historians can help you organize and outline your story. In addition they can:
- Interview you and maybe other family members
- Provide assistance writing and editing
- Help sort through your collections and photos
- Serve as a coach if you want to write your own manuscript
Options for Printing and Binding Your Book
Our service starts with reviewing your manuscript and continues through to the finished product — a beautifully printed and bound book.
Memoirs and family histories are produced in a variety of book formats — A deluxe or heirloom edition can be produced as a treasured keepsake or a paperback edition can be printed for greatest distribution. Click to see the Printed Editions page for more details.
Need Help with Writing or Editing?
Among our colleagues are expert writers and editors of family and personal histories. We can introduce you to these professionals and the services they provide. Together, your memoir will be achieved and appreciated by a devoted audience for generations.
Your family history is worth sharing
- Are there family roots and heritage the generations should know about?
- How would you describe yourself, your family, and your lives?
- What are some of the high/low points?
- When did significant events occur?
- What words sum up your strengths, your values, and the lessons you’ve learned?
Personal Stories: a great link between generations
More and more people are sharing their life stories with families and friends. These histories celebrate life and reflect the choices and forces that helped shape it. They help preserve a heritage that is easily lost if not written down.
Within a book you can preserve memories, photographs, collections, drawings, letters, voices, and relationships in meaningful and enduring ways. By chronicling your experiences and events, your personal stories will help link generations together.
Where to start
Working directly with you, we help you get started. It’s important to find the right approach to begin, develop, and complete the process. Storytelling can be the effort of one or a group project.
Some people like to write their own manuscript. Others prefer the help of a personal historian.
Personal historians can help you organize and outline your story. In addition they can:
- Interview you and maybe other family members
- Provide assistance writing and editing
- Help sort through your collections and photos
- Serve as a coach if you want to write your own manuscript
Options for Printing and Binding Your Book
Our service starts with reviewing your manuscript and continues through to the finished product — a beautifully printed and bound book.
Memoirs and family histories are produced in a variety of book formats — A deluxe or heirloom edition can be produced as a treasured keepsake or a paperback edition can be printed for greatest distribution. Click to see the Printed Editions page for more details.
Need Help with Writing or Editing?
Among our colleagues are expert writers and editors of family and personal histories. We can introduce you to these professionals and the services they provide. Together, your memoir will be achieved and appreciated by a devoted audience for generations.
