Writing an Autobiography, Lifestories,
Journal Writing Ideas
Preserve Family Memories with Family History Software and other Cool Tools and Ideas
Preserve family memories with family history software and other cool
products and ideas.
Additionally, find help, tips and fun ways to make your family history projects easier ... because it is important!
Preserve family history and memories through a variety of methods, including writing an autobiography,
preserving family photos, home videos and/or keeping a journal.
You will also find reviews of some carefully selected family history software.
Perhaps you'd really like a way to organize all your family history research, to include pictures,
genealogy and journals into a professional-looking multimedia presentation...then WOW your family with it!
Also don't miss the inspirational and how-to family history articles. They'll be a help and an inspiration
to you.
What's New?
2010 Fathers Day - Inspiring Fathers Day Poem
Losing Your Family Home Videos?: Questions to ask before you transfer VHS to DVD
Book Review: Total Recall
Authors Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, senior researchers at Microsoft, tell about their attempt to digitally record
as much of life as possible; photos, memorabilia, phone calls etc.
Bell and Gemmell explain how technological advances in digital recording, digital storage and digital search
will make is possible for you to "reach out and touch lives in the future, allowing you to make an impact for generations to come."
Read my review of this fascinating book.
Don't Use Your Mind As A Filing Cabinet
According to popular author Jim Rohn, "The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal."
Learn why he and I think that journaling about your life is one of the most important gifts you will ever leave your children.
Read more .... Journaling Life!
New Study: The Importance of Retelling Family Stories
A new study conducted by Emory University, and reported by The Wall Street Journal proves how important it is that kids,
learn and know family stories.
It concluded that a child's ability to retell family stories was linked to lower instances of depression, anxiety and less acting
out due to frustration and anger. Basically they are happier kids!
Read more about Family Stories
Preserving Family Memories - A Year in Review
As another year draws to an end, it is time to reflect and preserve the individual and family memories
of the past year. Your family's year in review!
New Service...
Old Family Photos, Slides or Negatives
Collecting Dust?
I recently discovered a great photo scanning service that is helping my parents get
all those thousands of photos and slides, finally, converted to digital ... I will finally get
a copy!! I'm very excited about that. ScanCafe is my top pick for photo scanning service !
How to Easily Preserve Family Stories
to Audio with Free or Nearly Free
Online Tools.
Despite living thousands of miles apart, last weekend I deliberately
got together with my two brothers and sister via a two hour phone call
to reminisce a little and create a one of a kind audio gift for mom and dad.
Here is how
we did it...!
Remember: Nov 28th 2008 is
The First "National Day of Listening"
Preserve Memories "On The Spot"
via Your Phone or Cell Phone
Record journal entries or special family events, as they happen, all via a phone or cell phone. This
has the potential to be the best Christmas gift you can give this year. Life on Record
Time to Do Something All Those Old 35mm Slides!
A Fill-in-the-Blank Lifestory Workbook That You Download
Memorygrabber is a 248 page downloadable lifestory workbook.
It is ideal for writing an autobiography or for getting an aging parent or grandparent to open up and finally get those cherished family stories
preserved for the ages.
This ebook will really help you realize just how much you have forgotten...stories that might otherwise
forgotten, because you've taken no action to preserve them for your children. Learn More
Just Added to The Website:
Free sample autobiography templates..right from the pages of Memorygrabber. Download them, save them and fill them out...all for free!
Important Articles Archives
"Time in My Pocket - Accounting for a Life Lived"
"I wonder what my daddy would think of my life. I have not seen him for 50 years and he is now but a
shadow in my thoughts.
I cannot picture him clearly anymore; his face is darkened as if a light shines from
behind him.
If not for my diaries, I would swear I had only lived half as long as I have....There are times I sit and wonder
where it all has gone! " Continue Reading...
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