Share and Preserve a Lifetime of Memories with This Fun-to-Fill-Out, Downloadable, Fill-in-the-Blank Autobiographical Workbook!

Treat This Workbook Like Someone You Just Met..."Tell It" All About Yourself!

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 workbook will ask questions that will make you dig deep...

...and the responses that come about because of that digging, will generate the most valuable gift that you could ever give your kids and grandkids.

It will be the gift of knowing about your life, their family history and their heritage.

It is a PDF file and commonly referred to by many as an e-book. An e-book is simply a downloadable "book" and is read using the free Adobe Reader....something very easy to download and begin using, right away!

It's Like "Mining" Your Memories

I think that you'll be surprised at all that you've forgotten over the years.

Of course, it will also help you organize and preserve the memories that you still cherish and have on the forefront of your memory.

Your story and life experiences are, by far, more valuable than anything else that you will leave your kids and grandkids.

Memorygrabber's powerful memory triggers will help you preserve hundreds of things that your kids and grandkids will want to know about your life someday...

.... but won't think to ask until it's too late!

For You...This Book Will Be a Wonderful Trip Down Memory Lane ... For Your Kids, it Will Be a Life Changer!

She was always good about keeping a journal about her life, but these journal excerpts were those kept by her parents, grandparents, great grandparents and then even her great-great grandfather.

She'd usually included only about 20-30 pages each year.

The oldest journal/life history that she has in her possession is that of her great-great grandfather John Murdock. He was born in the 1790s.

On Christmas afternoons, during my later teen years, you would have found me with my nose stuck in those pages.

I can't even remember what my actual gifts were....maybe a new shirt or pair of pants...

...but all I really remember now are the stories contained in those journals and writings.

These kind of things have real value and they are still a treasure to me and my family today!

Everyone has a story to tell and every family deserves to know a little about from whom they descend.

My hope is that this workbook, after the many hours that I've put into it, will inspire you and help you to tell the story of your life ....a story that no one else in the entire world is more qualified to tell than you!

People Love to Tell Stories, but...

I've met people who have told me stories of fascinating things that they've done and exciting places that they traveled to.

These were stories that really gave me an insight as to who that person was and what made them the person that they presently were.

Even though I usually knew the answer before asking it...I would ask them:

"Have you written any of those stories down for you kids"?

Most of the time I would get a response like this...

•   Wow, I never thought of doing that ....or
•   I don't really write good enough to do that ....or
•   That would really take a lot of work ...and
•   I really wouldn't know what to write about...

One thing I can tell you, for sure, is that when my ancestor John Murdock wrote what he did, he didn't have the benefit of spell check like we do today! And yes, sometimes that fact is obvious in his writing.

But who really cares. I'm very glad that that didn't stop him from writing what he did.

I just wanted them to actually get started and, in the end, have something in hand...that could be passed on to posterity!

Anything is better than nothing!

I had always been a fan of memory prompt books that I'd find in bookstores. These books had some questions followed with lots of space for you to write in the answer to each question.

Eventually they'd get a little boring, so I set out to improve upon those and to come up with a "Mega" memory prompt book!

Memorygrabber is the result of that work!

"My earliest recollection of my father is...." or "The oldest relative that I can remember, as a child, was..." are examples of completing the sentence excercises that you will find in the Memorygrabber workbook.

These questions are simple yet powerful.

2. Fill In The Blank Methodology

It is easier because it takes the pressure off of having to decide what to write about and it doesn't require great spelling and grammar skills.

It will lead you from topic to topic, one page after another!







3. Mental "Walk-Throughs"

Use locations from your past such as your childhood home, newlywed home, your first grade classroom or your old neighborhood to recall memories!

Focusing all of your attention on a specific location from your past, you will sketch out all that you remember about minute details of that location

In the instance of a childhood home...point out details like:

•   The TV was usually over against that wall


•   Dad usually sat in the chair "over there"


•   Mom always had that special cookie jar that sat on the counter


•   The backyard tree house, that dad built for us, was in that tree

Trust me, the memories will come flooding back! A copy of Memorygrabber will give you many more location ideas




4. A Quick-Response Questionaire

A lot can be said with a simple yes or no answer. Then stories about why you are the way that you are can be shared.

1. "I am a morning person",
2. "I like to cook",
3. "I always wear a seatbelt",
4. "I am frugal with my money"

There are 7 pages of yes or no questions in Memorygrabber.


5. Life Timeline Construction

One of the best ways to start telling about your life, is by building a timeline of your life

Given a certain year and your age during that year will be the basis for matching life events with spots on the timeline

You start out by putting major life events and milestones onto the timeline first. Examples may include ...

...your birth, birth of siblings, marriage, births of your children, anniversaries, job changes, started school and more.

Memorygrabber provides a simple timeline format that covers up to 105 years


6. Daily Journal Template

This will save you time and give you an unending number of things to journal or write about on a daily/regular basis


7. Self-Interview Formatted Questions

8. Online Resources Directory

A constantly updated list of software downloads to help organize family photos, videos and more. Plus links to my favorite "memory lane" sites to spark your memories even further

9. List Creation Drills

List all kinds of things from your favorite ways to relax on a lazy Sunday afternoon to first-time experiences such as your first kiss and your first airplane ride!

Other lists include

1. "List all the vehicles you've ever own,
2. "List foods that you just won't eat" and ...
3. "Calendar dates that have special meaning to you" and many more!

The real "GOLD", of course, lies in the stories that these lists will trigger! >br>

A "Snapshot" of Your Entire Life

There are other areas that complete the story of your life!

A completed Memorygrabber workbook will help you make a very clear statement of:

•   "This is what I've done with my life so far..."


•   "This is what I'm doing now..."


•   "This is what I think and believe about certain issues..."


•   "These are the world events that shaped my life and generation..."


•   "This is what I hope and plan for the future..."


•   "These are the people (friends and family) that have impacted and continue to have influence in my life"

The Power of the Human Mind to Recall!

All the data in your memory banks could probably fill an entire library!

Seriously, if you were to have everything that is stored in your memory put down on paper, including everything you've learned, heard, seen, done, experienced etc ... you'd have a whole library on your hands.

I think it amazing how a mere mention of a name from your past, a sudden scent of perfume or a glance at a photo you hadn't seen for many years can suddenly trigger a dormant memory from a long time ago!

How does the the human mind do that?

Would that memory have ever resurfaced if not for the outside stimulation?

I can't say for sure, but I do know that our memories sometimes need a catalyst or a spark....a trigger!

Memorygrabber provides that spark and it will be the catalyst for you to go in and "Mine or Memories."

How to Use Memorygrabber

How to Use Memorygrabber with FoxIt PDF Reader. Cool!

Is Memorygrabber Software?

The Foxit PDF Reader adds the ability to type your answers and responses right into the PDF file. Yes, it is now possible. This is relatively new technology.

What Others Are Saying About Memorygrabber

Over the years, it has also been used in professional capacities:

1. It was used in the classroom at Duke University in 2003 in instructor Cynthia Clark's family history class!


2. Used by a counselor, associated with the Veteran's Administration (VA), to help soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress to remember that "they are more than their trauma"


3. Some grade school teachers have asked to use portions of Memorygrabber in their classrooms!


4. A graduate student at the University of Central Oklahoma used Memorygrabber to help design a life history program while pursuing her Master's Degree of Gerontology.
   
   
5. Local supervisor, Karen Krebs, of the Idaho State Child Protective Services to to "facilitate the creation of "family life story notebooks" for our biological families - pages that the parents and children can complete while they're having parent/child visits at our office and can continue to build on once the children are returned home - or given to the adoptive families if the children are not able to return home."

... And Still Others Had This to Say About Memorygrabber

"(Memorygrabber)...it's a valuable piece of work!....I can imagine the time and thought you spent developing it. It shows!"

"There's no excuse now for ANYONE to say their life story can't be written. You've eliminated all the excuses."

"After buying your first Memorygrabber, I wrote an 85 page story of my life, my 75 years."

"After going through your new (version), I know I can and will fill in at least another 100 pages."

-- Bill Parks, Texas

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"Michael, We are working on a new program and we will be doing life reviews on all of patients.  From all of us at Sol Amor Hospice we just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!! We ... love the (downloaded) book (Memorygrabber) and our patients will too!"

 

Thanks!

Tricia Holt

Life Care Coordinator, BSW

Sol Amor Hospice

Tulsa, Ok

Michael,

 

Thank you for having the wonderful idea for all the work that you have done. I don't know much about my family and I have struggled with that my entire life. Now that I am 35, I am just starting to ask questions. However, it's too late to ask my grandparents. My parents never asked either. So it's hard to find out information. I want my children to know as much as they possibly can. I have been searching for distant relatives that may have known my direct ancestors to tell me any stories to add to my family book.

Thank you again and keep up the great work. - Cecelia A.

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"Thank you so much for this program. I'm going to use, use and use this! You are an angel!" - Frances S, MemoryGrabber owner




"I have seen different books in the libraries, but never one that is this easy and is capable of sparking so many memories that otherwise you never would think of...to come up with such an incredible how-to book is amazing!"

Yvonne Johnson, MemoryGrabber User, Pennsylvania, USA

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"I've always wanted to do this (write my life story), but was overwhelmed and didn't know how to start." -- Ola Norman, MemoryGrabber User, North Carolina USA

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"It's well organized, colorful and fun to do...a great combination! It makes writing family history user-friendly." -- Margaret Knorr, Kaleidoscope Journal

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I just wanted to let you know instead of taking my Sunday nap today, I opened up the Memory Grabber and spent over an hour filling in blanks about my life. Wow, that get's addicting, but fun!

-- Crissy Butts, alaskansplendor.com, Alaska USA

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"The task just seemed far too overwhelming before. Now I seem to have more of a direction and also I am more easily focused (with MemoryGrabber)"

-- Eliza, MemoryGrabber owner, Florida USA

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Your Memorygrabber is awesome...this is just what I needed to do a speech about my life!

--Paulene L, Bahamas

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"I would strongly recommend (Memorygrabber). It really is the most useful tool I've come across.

There are some really neat links, too, for remembering stuff in certain decades, fads, styles, etc. Made my head spin!"

Shani, Memorygrabber user, Florida USA

Removing All The Excuses!

Memorygrabber takes this one away because it is, in large part, a fill-in-the-blank workbook. There are parts that are just like filling out a job application. Anyone can fill out an application, right?

From there add one or two sentences to convey an experience or a memory. Some of the workbook is as easy as answering yes or no! Write as little or as much as you wish. Something is better than nothing!

This one has been covered on this page already, but if you still believe this, do it anyway and let your kids and grandkids make that decision. I think you'll find that they'll disagree with you!

If you still believe this after giving Memorygrabber a legitimate try, contact me and I'll refund your money...but I'll be shaking my head in disbelief!

Pick any of the 321 pages that interests you the most...just get started

A Blank Piece of Paper or Fill-in-the-Blank Questionaire Format
...Which Would Most Prefer?

If you gave a person a blank piece of paper and told them to start writing about their life, chance are they wouldn't get far and they wouldn't enjoy the challenge!

Give them a fun, fill-in-the-blank bio to fill out and the result will be very different....it would probably be hard to get them to stop, because most would consider it fun!

Get a Copy of this Workbook into the Hands of an Aging Parent or Grandparent!

Memorygrabber is a great conversation starter... especially with parents and grandparents that are sometimes reluctant to talk. Sometimes we just have to take the initiative to start the conversation with our aging family members.

Back in 2001 a grandmother on the Rootsweb Nostalgia Message Board responded to one of my posts and said the following:

"I know that we (grandparents) would also love it if our children would be interested in our stories now while we are alive instead of waiting until we are gone, to look for them." Sandy 2001

Get a copy of Memorygrabber and take it over on your next visit to see your mother, father or aging grandparent.

...Or take a copy to the next family reunion and see what conversations and wonderful memories you can stir up!

Memorygrabber is one the greatest investments you ever make....and at such a low price, it seems a "no-brainer" to most!

Send Copies of Your Life Story and/or Autobiography
to All Those That Will Appreciate It!

Once you are satisfied with all of the stories and information contained in within your life story document, you will be able to send copies of it to whomever you wish and thus insure that someone will always have a copy of it....it will never be lost.

I will process that refund within minutes of receiving your refund request. This is my promise to you.

If you have questions about Memorygrabber, please contact me and I will get an answer to you just as quick as possible.

NEW! As of August 2011, Memorygrabber is available in a British English version. This version reflects British spellings and wording/expressions. Apartment = flat, diaper = nappy, realize = realise, etc.

You'll be given the option to download either version, on the download page.

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