Questions worth asking. Stories worth keeping.
Practical guides and question lists for anyone who wants to preserve a family’s stories. Written to be used, not skimmed, and free of anything you need our product for.
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75 Questions to Ask Your Parents About Their Life
A cornerstone list of questions, organised from childhood to the things they hope you remember, plus advice on making the conversation feel natural.
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75 Questions to Ask Your Grandparents Before Their Stories Are Lost
Questions built for another generation's memories: the house they grew up in, the history they lived through, the family names only they still know.
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How to Preserve Family Memories for Future Generations
Photographs, audio, video, recipes, letters and files: how to keep them, and why context matters more than resolution.
10 min read
How to Record Your Parents' Life Stories
The practical side: asking permission, choosing audio or video, keeping it conversational, and labelling the result so it stays findable.
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100 Life Story Questions to Preserve a Lifetime of Memories
A chronological hundred, from first memories to what someone makes of it all. Works for interviewing anyone, or for writing your own story.
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How to Create a Family Memory Book
Structure, interviews, captions, recipes, maps and relatives who never reply: how a memory book actually comes together.
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How to Preserve Your Family History Before Details Disappear
The difference between genealogy and lived history, and a starting process for capturing the part records never hold.
9 min read
50 Questions to Ask Your Dad About His Life
Fifty questions for the conversations fathers rarely start themselves, from boyhood and first jobs to regret, humour and advice.
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50 Questions to Ask Your Mom About Her Life
Fifty questions about the woman who existed long before she was your mother, and what she made of the life that followed.
8 min read
The Simple Guide to Recording Family Stories
For anyone who decided today that they should start. A first recording, done properly, in under an hour.
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