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Your memories. Your story.

 

What is a Personal Historian

Your family tree and genealogy can be bought to life. A Personal Historian crafts family stories, memories, photographs and genealogy into a lasting family memoir.

Are you thinking of recording your memoirs? Do you parents have stories you'd like your children to hear? These are family heirlooms. The greatest legacy we can leave our children is the story of family.

A Personal Historian can collate your printed treasures, mix in memories and combine with your family tree to publish a personal memoir that records your words, your stories and is truly your creation.

At Life Story Books we will craft whatever it is you can imagine. It might be a photographic snapshot in time to record a wedding, tribute, memorial, adventure or career. You may be looking for a writing service to record your memoirs or publish your life story or the life story of a parent or grandparent.

Life Story Books also offers a photo restoration service. We can digitize, categorise and archive your shoe box or suitcase of family photos. Imagine all your family photos all in one place, restored and digitized and a copy available for everyone. What a wonderful gift that would make for all members of the family, and a lasting legacy of the past.

We urge you to think beyond genealogy, beyond the family tree and imagine all aspects of your family history combined into a beautiful heirloom book.

Consider this - family trees are abstract, stories add depth, include photographs and your family tree comes to life.


"It's never too early to tell your story, but it can easily become too late"


Archiving
Snapshot Stories
Heritage Memoirs

"Every life is a story and every story deserves to be told"


Why Record Anything?

  • To preserve, celebrate and share your life story.
  • To provide the generations to come with a family history told in your own words.

Do you need any more reasons? There are many, but it has been said that our most treasured heirlooms are the memories of our family.

It has been proven over and over that the process of telling a story has enormous benefit to the Storyteller.

You will laugh, you may cry, and you will definitely recall things long since forgotten. One memory triggers another, until a cascade of memories will flow.

Any apprehension felt at the beginning very quickly fades, and you will look forward to each interview. You will want to jot down notes and reminders as the process kick starts your memory.

We will ask you to gather photos, often spread amongst family members and the very act of doing that means you will involve family in the story process.