The major purpose of this web site is to encourage you to pursue telling your life story, or to preserve the stories of your family and loved ones. There are many ways to do this (as discussed elsewhere on this site, especially at
How to Tell Your Story).

We also regularly put into the Spotlight a "Highlight Site" that provides quality family history and life story methods, products and services.

Past Highlight Sites

Family History Products - Tools and Toys for Family Historians. Great products like the Memorygrabber.

The Journal Software - personal journaling software. An award winner that you can use for your journal and many other projects.

Association of Personal Historians (APH) - The passion of APH is personal history preservation in all its various shapes and forms.

Site Build It (SBI!) - The only all-in-one site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing product that makes it easy for you to build a professional, popular, and profitable business. Guaranteed results!

Memories Are Forever - This is a special website that provides a place to share the memories of loved ones who have died. The site provides lots of ideas and assistance for preserving your memories and dealing with grief and bereavment.

Veterans History Project - This site is dedicated to collecting and preserving the extraordinary wartime stories of ordinary people. The project relies on volunteers to interview, record, compile and donate materials. All are encouraged to participate: veterans, civilians, adults, young people, men, women, scholars, students, amateurs, and experts.

StoryCorps - This site tells you about a booth if Grand Central Station, one of the busiest places in the world and an ideal location for busy commuters and travelers in New York city, allows you to enter and record up to a one hour session for just $10. You leave with a CD recording of the session and you also have the opportunity for your story to be added to the StoryCorps Archives, housed at the Library of Congress.

The Elemental Press - Lissa Ann Forbes creates beautiful custom journals, legacy books, laminated bookmarks and other materials. She also is an accomplished public speaker, leads workshops and writes an engaging newsletter.

The Legacies Encinitas Youth Elder Project - Legacies is an inter-generational project in Encinitas, California. The project is now a national model that honors the important role Elders hold in our culture. This is done by celebrating them through Youth-generated story art works. The result is an invaluable community legacy that can be exhibited throughout a local region.

Chapters of Life - Julie Zander is a writer and personal historian in the Pacific Northwest.  She has lots of great resources at her site and provides a variety of services.

Soleil Lifestory Network - The Soleil Lifestory Network is the umbrella of the various services, workshops and resources of turningmemories.com.  Denis Ledoux and his staff can help you publish a book.  They can provide writing coaching.  They can assist you to teach others through their curriculum.

Stellar Media  -Creating video life stories takes skill, but it also requires an understanding of what makes a good story. Stellar Media meets both of these requirements.

For the current Highlight Site go here.

Everybody has a story to tell!
Your-Life-Your-Story.com
Copyright © 2003 - 2008 All rights reserved
Email Tom Gilbert