Share your unique experiences. Pay tribute to someone special. Tell the human story of an ancestor’s life. Leave a legacy of memories and family history.

Help capture someone’s stories – and memories from people in their life –while you have the chance. Show appreciation and honour their legacy.

Ask these types of questions to invite stories of challenge, change and chance. Go beyond basic aspects of life to tell stories of the journey.

Apps, learning resources and services are available to help you capture and share life stories – as you research, write, record audio, arrange visuals – and get your project done!

Family, friend, or ancestor – help their stories be remembered. Choose among these 14 ways (mostly short format!) to shine a spotlight on someone’s life.

Here, I share some of my experiences in giving life-story books to family and friends to celebrate memories – and in publishing memorial tributes when the time comes.

Bring us on a journey with your main character (you, someone in your life, or an ancestor). What do they want, and what’s at stake? Take us through their ups and downs, until…

Choose which experiences to share, then shape facts and memory into an engaging storyline. You don’t need to stray from the true tale to hold your reader’s attention.

Tell some of your stories and family history through images. Engage your viewers with photo books, slideshows, interactive maps and other visual formats.

Interviews are a great way to capture someone’s memories, stories and family history. Use these tips to create a rewarding process for both you and your interviewee. 

I find it rewarding to interview someone about their life stories. Here are some of my experiences, and take-aways for a fruitful process.