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Use a simple composition notebook, or grab this lay-flat one from our store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ce7aebf8-e74f-4cbb-bfda-048d8bcbcb0a/when-should-i-write-my-memoir-reason-1.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How can I write about my life when I am still living it? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e71fecd6-2ccf-43b4-b499-763fb4ae7e04/when-should-i-write-my-memoir-reason-2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How can I write about my life when I am still living it? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ffc0bd69-a7f4-428e-9679-4d026d02a855/when-should-i-write-my-memoir-reason-3.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How can I write about my life when I am still living it? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-07-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8eac0f6d-8d68-49e5-9abb-c4f8b7eb7c45/IG-vintage-postcard-bringing-home-harvest-illustration-postmark-1906.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 7, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting an illustration entitled “Bringing Home the Harvest,” postmarked 1906, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/09/29/when-to-break-writing-rules monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/6f577941-543f-4876-a645-83bc75b4a262/pexels-ivan-samkov-7901751.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Learn basic writing rules, then break some of them - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/20323473-be28-4c2c-8fbc-52ad175ff39c/grammar-rules-meant-to-be-broken-.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Learn basic writing rules, then break some of them - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/851f576d-8e0e-4757-bf72-1077194841f4/grammar-rules-meant-to-be-broken-2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Learn basic writing rules, then break some of them - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805dbe97-b18d-4a3d-9a97-a64d653ed21a/grammar-rules-meant-to-be-broken-3.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Learn basic writing rules, then break some of them - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-23-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e61e6de4-db03-4408-ac72-dee5564b2009/vintage-postcard-moody-sailboat-illustration-postmarked-1906.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 23, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting a moody illustration of a sailboat on the ocean, postmarked 1906, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/09/15/should-i-hire-a-professional-biographer monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/11b174e4-eb44-44f9-b1af-a29f1571cca5/IG-DawnRoode_ModernHeirloom%2842%29.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Should I hire a professional biographer? - Make it stand out Professional biographer, personal historian, memoir coach—Dawn Roode, pictured with a client, is all those things. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-09-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8ed0acca-fa5c-4811-a54f-e6de1cae08a8/orville-wright-in-aeroplane.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 9, 2025 Vintage photograph by an unknown photographer, September 1908: “Wright Aeroplane, Ft. Myer, Virginia,” Orville Wright in plane. Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. Courtesy Picturing the Century Exhibition, National Archives. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-aug-26-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1736979142464-79K93KLXDTO680IYF9WI/369th-15th-new-york.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 26, 2025 Vintage photograph by an unknown photographer, 1919: “Some of the colored men of the 369th (15th N.Y.) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action.” Pictured, left to right, front row: Pvt. Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Pvt. Leon Fraitor, Pvt. Ralph Hawkins; back row: Sgt. H. D. Prinas, Sgt. Dan Strorms, Pvt. Joe Williams, Pvt. Alfred Hanley, and Cpl. T. W. Taylor. 1998 print. Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs. Courtesy Picturing the Century Exhibition, National Archives. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/08/18/memoir-resources-for-beginners monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c2909cc9-998d-49d7-955a-79b662b731a9/IG-soft-focus-pen-on-blank-journal.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Memoir resources for when you’re staring down a blank page - Make it stand out Even the most seasoned writer sometimes feels hopeless when they sit down to write and nothing comes. “But we have this tool, this ability to begin again. Every sentence is new. Every paragraph, every chapter, every book is a country we’ve never been to before,” Dani Shapiro writes in Still Writing, a wonderfully small tome I recommend having on hand for quick hits of inspiration during your writing journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/45f9a2e3-0cdd-4b29-82aa-eaadf0ee1245/blank-writing-page-number-1.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Memoir resources for when you’re staring down a blank page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/26a3c596-fbf3-41b1-99e9-85d122c51521/blank-writing-page-number-2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Memoir resources for when you’re staring down a blank page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f02d9098-145c-4ea4-97ff-cdd7ffeb5327/blank-writing-page-number-3.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Memoir resources for when you’re staring down a blank page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1b25ea4f-2c28-4d44-870f-3bf02b11fbf8/blank-writing-page-number-4.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Memoir resources for when you’re staring down a blank page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/454bbab3-d48c-4bc6-8b9b-2d6355bc0a3a/blank-writing-page-number-5.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Memoir resources for when you’re staring down a blank page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/bcddb35f-71d6-4055-b8a4-dc34249a8c9f/blank-writing-page-number-6.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Memoir resources for when you’re staring down a blank page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/68d1260d-0f75-4a68-9732-5df432f6e1c5/blank-writing-page-number-7.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Memoir resources for when you’re staring down a blank page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ee148bc9-28c5-408b-a03a-7c95b3e2ccd3/write-your-life-course-header.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Memoir resources for when you’re staring down a blank page - Click for a full year of memory prompts & writing support! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-aug-12-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/7c782f8a-7911-4a67-a89e-e07d2c740326/sam-mccall-family-alabama.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 12, 2025 Vintage photograph by M.A. Crosby: “The Sam McCall family of Wilcox County, Alabama,” 1910; 1998 print from the original glass plate negative. Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Courtesy Picturing the Century Exhibition, National Archives. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/08/04/how-to-turn-an-oral-history-into-a-compelling-story monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/3a71ebf1-a98b-4235-8e72-577202d7badc/IG-DawnRoode_ModernHeirloom%2861%29.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to turn an oral history into a compelling story - Make it stand out Once you’ve interviewed your family member(s), you’ve got the most important step under your belt—congrats! But why not take the NEXT step and turn those spoken stories into something more permanent and engaging: an edited narrative that will hold meaning for generations? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fee02d1e-3900-47b1-8ec3-4a85fd10f45a/keyboard-letters-white-1.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to turn an oral history into a compelling story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cffa091a-3167-430e-914f-aedb987034e8/keyboard-letters-white-2.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to turn an oral history into a compelling story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b852ff97-67b3-4c71-bd04-bef5d6356b8f/keyboard-letters-white-3.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to turn an oral history into a compelling story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/04c19d79-7147-4329-9ab9-1d89dd35917a/keyboard-letters-white-4.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to turn an oral history into a compelling story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-july-29-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/58106064-f551-41de-8438-e9f4fa00b8c2/latin-girls-in-brooklyn.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 29, 2025 Vintage photograph by Danny Lyon: “Two Latin girls pose in front of a wall of graffiti in Lynch Park in Brooklyn, New York, June 1974”; 1999 print from the original 35mm slide. Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. Courtesy Picturing the Century Exhibition, National Archives. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/dawn-roode-family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-24-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/50560ad9-4b4e-4196-8035-db1a89539cae/1874-vintage-postcard-currier-and-ives-railroad.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 24, 2026 Vintage postcard depicting an American railroad scene, “Lightning Express Trains Leaving the Junction,” 1874; published in Viewpoints, a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/7/7/a-new-book-to-help-you-write-the-hard-stories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f0422e05-6d6f-44dd-a655-8c148957fd18/IG-brave-the-page-book-by-megan-febuary.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A new book to help you write the hard stories - Make it stand out Brave the Page: How Writing Our Hard Stories Brings Healing and Wholeness by Megan Febuary was released in June 2025 (Baker Books). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/23af1476-ee50-4a41-bcab-b4b3660c68f2/brown-leather-bookmark.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A new book to help you write the hard stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-july-15-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/58e76a0d-d376-4ceb-b9d8-c01128534602/farmer-coryell-county-texas.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 15, 2025 Photograph by George W. Ackerman (1884-1962): “Farmer reading his farm paper,” Coryell County, Texas, September 1931. 1998 print from the original negative. Records of the Extension Service. Courtesy Picturing the Century Exhibition, National Archives. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/07/07/the-case-for-classic-book-design monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/51d8eef6-0e17-417a-b0bc-e55175057221/IG-hennessy-legacy-black-leather-scene-dramatic.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The case for classic design - Make it stand out Black leather and a debossed title elevate this book cover from boring to elegant, signaling the timeless page design inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/3cd330e2-a3bb-43fa-b2f8-dd5e76958b30/IG-life-story-book-spread-with-car-photo.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The case for classic design - Make it stand out Ample white space gives a life story book breathing room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/4cf8e2be-00b9-4105-abaf-1d3b28eed8a0/IG-letters-from-dad-heirloom-book-table-of-contents-spread.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The case for classic design - Make it stand out This book of correspondence between a father and his daughter during her time at Georgetown University used Adobe Caslon, the same font in the Georgetown logo, for display type; Caslon was originally designed in 1722, and its modern iterations are still revered for its readability and elegance. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-july-01-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/546c8745-c3a6-4775-aa30-64616f05afb7/IG-vintage-postcard-beach-photo-circa-early-1900s.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 1, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting a black-and-white photograph of a family walking along a beachfront, early 1900s, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/04/23/the-messy-middle-pushing-through-the-toughest-part-of-memoir-writing monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/54536538-8fe7-4fde-a042-f2c51a3f3539/IG-memoirist-writing-at-computer.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “The messy middle”: Pushing through the toughest part of memoir writing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-17-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/7ab0a2be-d8c5-4add-a1c8-43e987f40074/IG-vintage-postcard-ny-world-fair-of-1939-from-empire-state-bldg-postmark-1938.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 17, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting the New York World’s Fair of 1939 as seen from the Empire State Building in New York City, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/06/09/how-to-photograph-your-family-heirlooms- monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/23a65d5d-7e22-4f84-954a-1067b22a9353/IG-family-heirloom-crystal-doorknob.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to photograph your family heirlooms like a pro - Make it stand out Heirlooms can be unexpected—such as the gorgeous glass doorknobs shown here: “I was born into the bedroom with the glass doorknob and I didn’t leave it until I got married at age 23,” the subject remembers; she uses the object as a jumping-off point for stories from her life in that home (she even took the doorknob with her when the house was sold—a true heirloom). This is an example of a family heirloom photograph that has been styled and arranged in an environment, used as part of a broad family history book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2b12c78a-1e1a-441e-9307-282ff61ea28c/family-heirloom-catalog-wooden-plate-angle-shadow.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to photograph your family heirlooms like a pro - Make it stand out I photographed this hand-turned plate, made by my client’s father, on a clean white background and from various angles, because it was being used in a catalog of family heirlooms. The lack of styling yields not only a timeless image, but a straightforward record of what the objects look like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f47d18ae-5157-4e4d-8c69-7e8a1224a99c/IG-family-heirloom-bronzed-baby-shoes-styled.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to photograph your family heirlooms like a pro - Make it stand out This styled heirloom photo uses candles and flowers to add dimension and texture, natural lighting for soft shadows, and a simple wooden surface as a warm yet simple backdrop. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-03-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1736976685074-XY1U8OFO7ITMANMIG3SX/IG-vintage-postcard-kids-on-beach-asbury-park-nj-postmark-1933.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 3, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting a black-and-white photograph of children on the shore at an Asbury, Park, New Jersey, beach, postmarked 1933, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/05/23/how-to-honor-the-legacy-of-a-veteran-on-memorial-day monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/acf29375-426d-4aa8-b84e-62a0aa951f75/IG-veteran-memorial-day-old-photo.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 ways to honor the legacy of a family member on Memorial Day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-20-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1736976484873-M013XSGS6ET3436Z9LBP/IG-vintage-postcard-german-performers-circa-early-1900s.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 20, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting a black-and-white photograph of German performers circa early 1900s, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/05/12/putting-the-pieces-together-aka-memoir-making monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/6a3129be-fe75-4d45-8dbf-f8b3dd4f561e/IG-DawnRoode_ModernHeirloom%2845%29.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Putting the pieces together (aka memoir ‘making’) - Make it stand out During the design phase of a personal history book, I often spread pages out all over my office floor to evaluate the book’s flow. Similarly, in the early stages of a memoir—when writings may consist of disjointed stories and short reflections without any narrative arc—I will spread pages out on the floor to look for patterns. Sure, you can do this on a computer, but I find this old-school approach much more efficient (and satisfying)! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-06-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1736976195858-4GX59W0C1P3MZK4UXTEB/IG-vintage-postcard-daisies-postmark-bari-italy-1917.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 6, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting a faded photograph of two daisies postmarked from Bari, Italy, in 1906, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/04/28/common-fears-about-writing-memoir monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c735fb2a-32c1-4a6e-90d9-76ad4e2c65ce/fears-about-writing-life-story.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “I’m scared.” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-apr-22-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/727b47dc-87ae-4953-b815-6748e49afae0/vintage-postcard-museum-of-natural-history-ny-circa-1920.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 22, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting an illustration of The Museum of Natural History in New York City, circa 1920, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/04/14/become-a-family-history-detective monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ca2b7285-8ab5-496b-86c9-8bb8e8b60d87/IG-old-photo-grandmother-magnifying-glass-horiz.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Become a family history detective (the fun way!) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2fa03dde-6b88-4776-8185-c73621d1a2c9/family-history-detective-idea-1.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Become a family history detective (the fun way!) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/81f01c32-a5fe-4abf-b7a6-058a5ef75b8d/family-history-detective-idea-2.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Become a family history detective (the fun way!) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/6af78a56-2dd3-4da5-8e8c-1012398cd892/family-history-detective-idea-3.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Become a family history detective (the fun way!) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-apr-08-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/d540d87e-acf7-4583-9ef5-15380321537e/vintage-postcard-handwriting-postmarked-ny-join-the-navy-1920.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 8, 2025 Vintage postcard with handwritten note addressed to a recipient in Winchendon, Massachusetts, postmarked from New York City in 1906, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/03/31/who-listens-to-you monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b43d5f22-3ce5-4a79-80ad-d54381b6ae46/vintage-photo-two-men-on-porch-talking.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Who listens to you?” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/03/24/why-you-need-emotional-distance-when-writing-memoir monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/eda51d9b-9beb-4716-ae0b-2147ce082ea3/senior-man-writing-life-story-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why you need emotional distance when writing memoir - Make it stand out Have you ever wondered if enough time has passed for you to begin writing about your life? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-march-18-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0bf26e22-8240-4a66-9d5b-d76aaa8ab683/IG-vintage-postcard-flower-beds-prospect-park-ny-with-glitter-detail-postmarked-1906-brooklyn.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 18, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting an illustration of flower beds in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, postmarked 1906, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/beware-of-project-creep/mar-04-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/5b1cf8e7-9b54-47d7-b6b7-ac635690f264/family-history-project-overwhelm.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Beware of family history project creep! - Make it stand out You’re almost done with your latest family history project…and then a sibling drops off ANOTHER box of stuff. What do you do? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1ba70346-86ad-426e-a401-28a42266786b/overwhelm-target-goals.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Beware of family history project creep! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2da7870c-f315-424e-bd31-66e381d80744/overwhelm-organize.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Beware of family history project creep! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/16766819-44c6-4656-97db-97f50eeaf55e/creating-family-archives-ebook.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Beware of family history project creep! - E-Book recommendation If you want to get serious about organizing all your family history materials, I highly recommend this step-by-step guide from archivist Margot Note. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/6c3f5207-d4b7-49d6-827b-7fbb5d3a8509/overwhelm-deadlines.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Beware of family history project creep! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-march-04-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/008cd546-8e1b-45a0-af85-82cd90bd99e7/IG-vintage-postcard-postmarked-1906-forest-scene-illustration.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 4, 2025 Vintage postcard depicting an illustrated forest scene, postmarked 1906, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/what-do-you-wish-you-had-asked-them/feb-24-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0783bc38-76db-40dd-b8cb-11b855689425/pexels-rodnae-productions-5637739.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What do you wish you had asked them? - Make it stand out Do you wish you had asked your parent certain questions before they passed away? Are your parents still living, but you know you haven’t asked them for all the stories you hope to one day hear (and pass on to your kids)? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-18-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1736977088404-AI51EVK386T7CSRZBRST/victorian-cherub-valentine-print.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 18, 2025 Vintage Valentine’s postcard depicting an illustrated cherub, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/best-sentimental-gifts-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/7fc78e9e-a280-432e-a3e0-b0c16421acd1/IG-gift-silver-wrap-photo-flower.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/534d7431-b7ea-4c76-b2e2-e7450a54543c/Screenshot+2025-01-02+at+6.26.27%E2%80%AFPM.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/d01d0e14-13f6-4c13-ae60-edf8d0f2888b/brown-leather-journals-from-iona-handcrafted-journals.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/331c9291-0f9e-4601-bb01-a48d9e4b12e6/IG-write-your-life-black-lined-journal.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fba17e94-d5ff-4dba-b1cc-532eaa2efb9b/heirloom-kit-from-hannah-bergen-heirlooms The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/3dc9f143-010d-4429-84fc-f8fbe48af7ed/family-tree-notebooks-starter-pack The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a82ff5d9-dcc8-464a-96ca-67222cb71931/custom-family-cookbook-from-savor-cookbooks.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/d99ec9ff-3455-46b9-84f4-0d2bb59b358b/hanging-fruits-foiled-recipe-journal-from-papier The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1526499091159-QRB3RM0JE4LP6SWYXPRW/interview-process-for-memoir.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/7203876d-703f-47f1-b218-99267d240c13/write-your-life-graphic-with-frame-photo.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a144f52e-0c8e-434f-8a8b-3abeb47e3870/jane-mount-custom-book-illustration-dawn.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cf6e418f-3664-47e5-b9e9-8e1d13f66fc9/journey-map-from-custom-family-gifts The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c17fb649-1049-4001-8d0a-02ef49785be6/family-silhouette-portrait-by-elle The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/82122b02-6e4f-4e2f-8439-e5bf0ada9f27/IG-yours-truly-by-james-r-hagerty.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best sentimental gifts for any occasion—at any price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-04-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/9bffacab-6f60-43d5-9d54-b95c8fc8fe30/IG-vintage-postcard-couple-in-boat-postmark-1920.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 4, 2025 - Make it stand out Vintage postcard of a well-dressed couple in a row boat on a lakeshore, postmarked 1920, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2025/01/27/people-still-buy-handmade-shoes monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/09163a6a-eaf7-4cf1-96c1-a4b7c407b8ab/handmade-leather-artisan.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “People still buy handmade shoes.” - Make it stand out Will there ever come a day when we are so reliant on artificial intelligence that our appreciation for and need for handmade goods and in-person services are gone? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-jan-21-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c3dbfcc7-256c-4e45-80ee-24691f7e28f7/IG-vintage-postcard-little-church-round-the-corner-ny-postmark-1907.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 21, 2025 Vintage postcard with illustration of the “little church round the way” in New York , circa 1907, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/8/29/do-you-keep-a-writing-ideas-notebook monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b8bb203d-1b52-4c47-8fce-5a06b1040f51/writing-ideas-laptop-and-lightbulb.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Do you keep a writing ideas notebook? - Make it stand out So you finally find a stretch of uninterrupted time to write…and when you sit down, you draw a blank. Has that ever happened to you? This simple idea—keeping a notebook of self-generated writing prompts—will keep your ideas flowing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/5b190b64-38e4-425e-b45b-a85380430d80/hardcover-bound-notebook-navy-front-675108ca6f15e.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Do you keep a writing ideas notebook? - How about this one? If your kid’s half-used, spiral-bound notebook isn’t up to par (it’s what I used all last year, haha!), check out this one I’ve designed just for you. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-jan-7-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805f9c5c-772f-4d78-b640-98a70de60dbe/IG-vintage-postcard-f-trubet-illustration-boat-homestead-printed-germany-postmark-1908.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 7, 2025 Vintage postcard, circa 1908, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-dec-17-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/7b77ce27-a7bd-43f0-9ce3-621e65fa4a98/IG-vintage-postcard-woolworth-bldg-and-city-hall-nyc-at-night-circa-early-1900s.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: December 17, 2024 Vintage postcard of New York City’s Woolworth Building and City Hall at night, circa early 1900s; from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/12/07/write-your-life-who-its-right-for monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1724770452537-0057YIO1OBIG7JBIRCCU/IG-gift-photos-magnifying-glass.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Before you gift someone our Write Your Life prompts (or, “Who this gift is NOT for?”) - Make it stand out You want your loved one’s stories—how could that be perceived as anything but loving? (HOW you ask for them can make all the difference.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/3812e09c-919e-41fe-8986-a24a78ec47d7/Screenshot+2024-08-26+at+5.24.02%E2%80%AFPM.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Before you gift someone our Write Your Life prompts (or, “Who this gift is NOT for?”) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/bb3e3d6f-03e3-493a-b14c-483c97b6bf59/Screenshot+2024-08-26+at+5.22.57%E2%80%AFPM.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Before you gift someone our Write Your Life prompts (or, “Who this gift is NOT for?”) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c96259af-5d1f-49f1-9f5b-314a8651d06b/1-all-in-exclamation-points.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Before you gift someone our Write Your Life prompts (or, “Who this gift is NOT for?”) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a80615ab-1282-4809-8260-7375ee8012ef/2-not-sure-question-marks.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Before you gift someone our Write Your Life prompts (or, “Who this gift is NOT for?”) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/405264cd-14d7-4cd3-b8be-ff50e12367e3/3-ask-them-yourself-question-mark-in-quotes.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Before you gift someone our Write Your Life prompts (or, “Who this gift is NOT for?”) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ed4d392f-7f7b-42f7-8951-51f7405e9a70/4-testing-the-waters-waves.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Before you gift someone our Write Your Life prompts (or, “Who this gift is NOT for?”) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-dec-3-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/47d6889c-3329-4e2f-b4c5-59f0f10cd224/IG-vintage-postcard-december-twilight-illustration-postmark-1906.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: December 3, 2024 Vintage postcard with an illustration entitled “December Twilight,” postmarked 1906; from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/11/25/write-your-life-weekly-memory-and-writing-prompts-for-a-year monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605194072091-FAKMD2691QSSJJCK2QPP/write-your-life-course-blog-image.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Write Your Life” delivers weekly memory &amp; writing prompts via email weekly memoir-writing courses that are tailored not to professional writers but instead to everyday family historians with no prior writing experience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605290983351-QMDDL4Z43D6CKCMHX24Y/encouraging-text-screen.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Write Your Life” delivers weekly memory &amp; writing prompts via email The life story writing courses from Modern Heirloom Books provide encouragement, writing tips, and inspiration to keep going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605292620393-IZZVSQG7IOQ2BMETIWJQ/helpful-text-screen.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Write Your Life” delivers weekly memory &amp; writing prompts via email The short courses from Modern Heirloom Books teach everyday people how to write their life stories in short vignettes rather than in a lengthy memoir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605292818259-VZKSXZCNCZNBWLTKHYJQ/flexible-text-screen.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Write Your Life” delivers weekly memory &amp; writing prompts via email These weekly life writing courses are flexible—you choose what time to receive them, and you have a full week to complete each writing assignment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605290534960-5VCL6WU60SJ6TX9YT4GN/affordable-text-screen.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Write Your Life” delivers weekly memory &amp; writing prompts via email The Write Your Life courses from Modern Heirloom Books are affordably priced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8a08c09f-94fc-4f8a-8311-ace24d51f06c/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3768114.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Write Your Life” delivers weekly memory &amp; writing prompts via email - Before you gift: Writing isn’t for everyone! Remember, this is a WRITING subscription. If you know your parent or family member loves to write (even if it’s just in a journal), this may be a wonderful option for them. If, on the other hand, they groan at having to write a short note, you might not want to “gift” them something that can feel like a burden. Consider asking them if they’d be interested first, or gift them a starter package of personal history interviews, where their stories will be RECEIVED by an engaged and generous listener… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605210536552-GPH6UXQJ409BGVML8VFO/small-write-your-life-text-message-courses-on-iphone-with-journal.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Write Your Life” delivers weekly memory &amp; writing prompts via email - A Year of Memory & Writing Prompts Explore our year-long “Write Your Life” email course https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-19-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2b529799-d89f-4c8a-9e48-44fc5214f6e0/IG-vintage-postcard-madison-square-garden-postmark-1908.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 19, 2024 Vintage postcard of Madison Square Garden in New York City, postmarked 1908; from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/11/10/thanksgiving-story-sharing-made-easy monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/aeb9de2b-d98e-408f-9d3a-94bf3cd1b772/taste-of-the-past-food-memories-card.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Thanksgiving story sharing, made easy - Family potluck: reminiscing & recipes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0267f1d3-d5ac-4367-be3c-54f1df942f87/thanksgiving-with-family.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Thanksgiving story sharing, made easy - 4 ways to give thanks through story sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a2541ecc-cbbf-4072-a65b-bc33fb408159/IG-thanksgiving-family-history-interview-questions-with-voice-recorder.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Thanksgiving story sharing, made easy - Thanksgiving family history questions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/d9887e58-b55b-4e7e-840b-51f7b675b9a5/family-history-recipe-cards-set.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Thanksgiving story sharing, made easy - Unique holiday host(ess) gift https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ccd25cf8-7e33-416f-8306-45ec438db5c8/granny-cooper-heritage-cookbook-process.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Thanksgiving story sharing, made easy - Your 10-step plan for making an heirloom-worthy family cookbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/88a33732-4f98-4044-a157-271513afaba4/young-girl-baking-with-mother.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Thanksgiving story sharing, made easy - 38 Questions to prompt food memories https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-5-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c055054c-1688-495e-8236-deaa3dadc94b/IG-vintage-postcard-riverfront-ny-illustration-circa-early-1900s.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 5, 2024 Vintage postcard with an illustration of the New York City riverfront, circa early 1900s; from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/8/28/how-to-ask-good-follow-up-questions-in-a-family-history-interview monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1716494185637-VNE0MBMAGWEIPGKJV4DY/GettyImages-1322711934.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to ask good follow-up questions in a family history interview - Make it stand out Whether your family history interview is being recorded on a couch in the subject’s living room or virtually on an iPad screen, it’s important to show interest through verbal cues and follow-up questions. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-22-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/746de5a2-88de-4fa7-a5be-74598557ba52/IG-vintage-postcard-lighthouse-near-effingham-yorks-illustration-postmark-1907.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 22, 2024 Vintage postcard featuring an illustration of a lighthouse near Effingham Yorks, postmarked 1907; from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/10/09/the-power-of-a-follow-up-question monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8b5028c9-0895-4235-b911-34fea2cb26a3/senior-woman-in-conversation-with-adult-daughter.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The power of a follow-up question - Make it stand out Want a sign that your follow-up questions are working? If your interview subject is engaged—nodding, smiling, or showing other signs of acknowledgement in response to your questions—then chances are their story sharing will go deeper in the best possible way! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-01-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/83181b3f-afa7-4d81-bb71-119bf9890023/IG-vintage-postcard-lake-prospect-park-brooklyn-ny-postmark-vicksburg-miss-1909.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 1, 2024 Vintage postcard depicting an illustration of the lake in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, postmarked 1909, Vicksburg, Mississippi; from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/5/15/family-history-book-captions monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/079e0307-3c70-4eae-8a99-a02951913851/IG-heirloom-book-spread-old-family-photo.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “We all know who’s in the pictures”—a poor excuse for skipping captions - Make it stand out If you’ve ever discovered a box of old family photos and wished you knew who was in them, perhaps you’ll understand my disappointment with one client’s decision not to include captions in her tribute book. This spread is from another client’s heirloom book—see how unobtrusive a caption can be? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-17-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/d7562a3b-c907-4c2a-85b1-85a30bdf8524/IG-vintage-postcard-spring-couple-in-boat-illustration-postmark-1906.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 17, 2024 Vintage postcard with an illustration of a romantic couple in a small boat on a spring day, postmarked 1906; from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/3177d287-ed15-40c8-a1ce-d2fbe3030666/video-about-ai-memory-preservation-for-history.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 17, 2024 - Make it stand out Click to watch a news report about how the new technology is being implemented with survivors who share their stories through oral history interviews. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/9/9/your-personal-story-is-part-of-family-history monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c4ee7bb6-8b55-4dc1-9699-1b7753395a0d/IG-family-tree-spread.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Friendly reminder: Your personal story is part of a broader family history - Make it stand out Why include a family tree in a book focusing on just your stories? Well, because it will give your descendants an easy way to map the supporting “characters” in your stories—and because your personal history is one piece of a broader family history, too. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-03-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0d748a46-6855-4a53-b879-85142ce1221c/IG-vintage-postcard-german-american-novelty-art-series-sailboat-postmark-1907.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 3, 2024 Vintage postcard from a German American Novelty Art Series depicting an illustration of a sailboat, postmarked 1907; from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/8/26/deciding-to-cut-failures-from-your-memoir monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f2c140c9-dc39-4d51-badc-38fe4fe1b03e/open-memoir-on-couch-in-window-shadows.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What to cut from your memoir—when an editor and writer disagree - Make it stand out Always remember that what ultimately makes it into print in your memoir is 100-percent YOUR decision—so while I (and other personal historians or editors) may encourage you not to skip over your challenges, you are the one who gets to make that call. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-aug-20-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/29df4674-6d1e-4256-b439-c50a2abe6097/IG-vintage-postcard-ellis-island-ny-postmark-1913.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 20, 2024 Vintage postcard of Ellis Island, New York, postmarked 1913, from the personal ephemera collection of Dawn Roode. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/8/12/dawn-roode-founder-of-modern-heirloom-books monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/390fd02f-6449-4826-8467-131a700b13bd/IG-dawn-hand-on-chin-at-computer-bright.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Hello, it’s me—the person behind the brand - Make it stand out While I much prefer candid shots (and, truth be told, being the one TAKING the pictures!), I will occasionally pose for a behind-the-scenes shot like this…so you remember that there is indeed a human being behind my brand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/575c39f7-c37c-4f59-beeb-8c0901fd7327/IG-mhb-logo-heirloom-book-spread.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Hello, it’s me—the person behind the brand - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-aug-6-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/52b7fde4-ae4f-4abd-a4ee-26d77455ad2b/IG-vintage-postcard-from-france-wwi.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 6, 2024 Vintage postcard of a scene at le Château de Saint-Florent-sur-Cher, sent by a U.S. Army medic stationed in France during World War I to his family in Arkansas; courtesy of the soldier’s family. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/7/29/all-five-star-reviews-for-modern-heirloom-books monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/75bb3141-7646-4ffb-949a-e4d1def6a647/five-star-reviews-modern-heirloom-books.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805a96e8-fd12-400a-97e4-f2e80f08db67/IG-five-gold-stars.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805a96e8-fd12-400a-97e4-f2e80f08db67/IG-five-gold-stars.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805a96e8-fd12-400a-97e4-f2e80f08db67/IG-five-gold-stars.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805a96e8-fd12-400a-97e4-f2e80f08db67/IG-five-gold-stars.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805a96e8-fd12-400a-97e4-f2e80f08db67/IG-five-gold-stars.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805a96e8-fd12-400a-97e4-f2e80f08db67/IG-five-gold-stars.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805a96e8-fd12-400a-97e4-f2e80f08db67/IG-five-gold-stars.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805a96e8-fd12-400a-97e4-f2e80f08db67/IG-five-gold-stars.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/805a96e8-fd12-400a-97e4-f2e80f08db67/IG-five-gold-stars.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/6cb6e43b-6a53-4b20-ad19-cd781c81dfbd/IG-patty-silvers-testimonial.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out This one is from my client Patty, who created family history heirloom books for her grown children as well as her young grandchildren, a way to preserve their family’s legacy for generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cd91c67e-df15-4738-988b-56d93b70d4b3/IG-friend-testimonial.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All five-star reviews for Modern Heirloom Books! - Make it stand out This one was forwarded to me by my client Jane, who had “loaned” her book to a good friend. I worked with Jane as her memoir coach, then edited and designed the resulting heirloom book. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-july-23-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1adbf1b6-1cc7-4c0b-bef3-d1a835284c5e/boy-leaning-on-fire-hydrant-photo-by-morris-huberland.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 23, 2024 Vintage photograph of boy leaning on a fire hydrant in New York City by Morris Huberland, taken in the mid-twentieth century, courtesy the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/7/15/writing-your-life-story-benefits-you monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/79433cc0-e637-425a-9e19-5f8ca9ee3c8e/IG-memoir-writing-leads-to-self-understanding.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - No readers, no matter—your life story benefits YOU - Make it stand out “A story is a map and we the mapmakers plotting the landscapes of our lives,” Mark Yaconelli writes in Between the Listening and the Telling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/614c72a8-13d3-4118-b53d-436102a1a91c/one-footsteps-on-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - No readers, no matter—your life story benefits YOU - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b64f5982-e763-484d-bf2c-4ea62afdf9d4/two-footsteps-on-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - No readers, no matter—your life story benefits YOU - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-july-9-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/104fc862-c0cb-4ca3-80a6-786bfd71d218/babe-ruth-basbeball-card.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 9, 2024 Vintage baseball card of George Herman (Babe) Ruth issued by Big League Chewing Gum in 1933, courtesy Library of Congress Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/6/24/in-conversation-about-the-gift-of-family-stories-with-melissa-ceria monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f6cf144d-6fb5-46b0-8794-e250eb34a821/bigstock-Love-Of-Books-90817100.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - In conversation about “the gift of family stories” - Make it stand out As a guest on The Loss Encounters podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with host Melissa Ceria about the ways our family stories can provide solace in the face of loss, and how anyone can begin to preserve their family stories for the next generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/7fcacd44-eb03-43ae-acba-3372a26903ed/quote-melissa-ceria.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - In conversation about “the gift of family stories” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1a67b5c7-86a8-4eb4-8dcc-c6c92956691d/quotes-dawn-roode.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - In conversation about “the gift of family stories” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-18-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c2c2ebc8-45ab-4435-b663-0d53b76d971c/women-picking-carrots.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 18, 2024 Vintage photograph of woman picking carrots in Camden County, New Jersey, in October 1938, by Arthur Rothstein, courtesy Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection Repository, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/6/10/fear-of-forgetting-your-life monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/629c6ff8-cf67-41ee-abd3-cdbb38ee083c/choosing-life-writing-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why a recent life writing book isn’t on my recommended list - Make it stand out There are lots of books I read and don’t recommend to you, as they’re not worth your time. For a list of the top titles I think ARE worth your time (with notes on why), check out this post. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-04-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/d0c2b892-d96e-4150-b03a-2a058b917bda/vintage-postcard-black-bear-cubs.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 4, 2024 Vintage postcard of black bear cubs from the New York Zoological Park, circa 1914, courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/5/27/ethics-of-reading-deceased-family-members-personal-letters monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1daaafce-9c38-4262-a9cd-8115d401684a/collection-of-family-letters.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - To read or not to read? How to handle a deceased family member’s personal letters - Make it stand out I have created wonderful heirloom books filled with letters that help tell the story of a family. Sometimes, though, we may not feel so comfortable reading our deceased loved ones’ personal reflections. Before you include their letters in your book, reflect on how they’d feel about it—then, make an informed, thoughtful decision. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-24-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/be8ca511-ce61-4735-9c33-0f7f7ae26c48/women-gathered-outside-dix-building-ny.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 21, 2024 Photograph of female workers gathered outside the Dix Building in New York City, by Lewis Wickes Hine, courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/5/13/a-coffee-table-book-about-quirky-heirlooms-yes-please monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/6171810e-5028-48ff-98fb-15cafe2693cd/IG-the-heirloomist-coffee-table-book-by-shana-novak.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A coffee table book about quirky heirlooms? Yes, please! - Make it stand out The latest addition to my own coffee table: this warm-and-fuzzy, beautifully photographed book from Shana Novak, The Heirloomist: 100 Treasures and the Stories They Tell (Chronicle Books, April 2024). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/31610c8f-065b-49fe-bfca-7e63cb04579e/IG-tribe-spread-old-film-canister.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A coffee table book about quirky heirlooms? Yes, please! - Make it stand out A spread from an heirloom book I created in 2016 celebrating the 30th anniversary of a family-run business—it shows an old film canister photographed by Shana Novak for the project. For this client, their films help tell their story, and the striking visuals help bring that story to vivid life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8ff12928-8124-47fc-80b5-6c01dede2cb9/the-doorknob-book-spread-1.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A coffee table book about quirky heirlooms? Yes, please! - Make it stand out More Modern Heirloom inspiration: Heirlooms can be unexpected—such as the gorgeous glass doorknobs on this spread: “I was born into the bedroom with the glass doorknob and I didn’t leave it until I got married at age 23,” the subject remembers; she uses the object as a jumping-off point for stories from her life in that home (she even took the doorknob with her when the house was sold—a true heirloom). Read more about interesting graphics to consider adding to your family history book here. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-07-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/23267fc0-6867-4386-92ee-b176877ebc68/poster-worlds-fair-sea-cliff.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 7, 2024 Vintage poster produced between 1936 and 1938 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/6c145a74-eb09-446a-b39b-2e74d6f3fde8/Screenshot+2024-04-25+at+5.57.44%E2%80%AFPM.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 7, 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/4/26/more-memory-more-memories-nope monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cc6ba853-b978-4efe-8931-eb246482f86e/how-to-use-photos-guide-phone-screen-2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - More memory, more memories? Nope. - Free printable guide Our thoughtful guide, “How to Use Photographs as Prompts for Writing Life Stories,” is a handy reference for all those photos you do decide to save! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-apr-23-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/91f49157-6ce2-4cb3-922b-34da8e1b4578/poster-expecting.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 23, 2024 Vintage poster produced between 1936 and 1938 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/4/15/how-to-create-your-own-life-writing-prompts monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/9fe65743-06d5-4270-beab-01c91e4a5ef0/senior-man-typing-on-laptop.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create your own life writing prompts - Make it stand out Taking some time to intentionally create a list of writing prompts that are personalized to your own experience will save you time (and headaches!) later. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-apr-09-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/aa917a96-e4e2-4951-858a-5864089c5147/poster-women-painters-feb-15.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 9, 2024 Vintage poster produced between 1936 and 1938 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/4/01/4-unique-family-history-finds-from-rootstech-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f8726af4-79bb-4404-bb3b-9796c67ad0e3/Screenshot+2024-03-25+at+8.12.42%E2%80%AFPM.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 Unique family history finds from RootsTech 2024 - Make it stand out Kindred Lands’ website offers up sample heritage travel itineraries. Where is your ancestral homeland—and have you been there yet? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/65d7c66a-4d47-49a9-b230-b5475a581220/Screenshot+2024-03-25+at+6.32.29%E2%80%AFPM.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 Unique family history finds from RootsTech 2024 - Make it stand out Four prints for sale in Missy Ames’s Wanderlust–themed Etsy shop; she creates fully custom commissioned artwork, too (perfect, in my opinion, for taking your family history book to the next level). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cf9ce61e-f792-4e2c-b7fc-7069f70030c3/IG-the-family-imprint-book-cover-nancy-borowick.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 Unique family history finds from RootsTech 2024 - Make it stand out The cover of Nancy Borowick’s book The Family Imprint, while stunning, does little to hint at the photographic splendor within. Click through some images on her site to see what’s within. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/1/29/are-you-weighed-down-by-the-stuff-of-your-familys-memories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/99656262-f056-498a-b7bb-998eb2b2c84d/memory_box_2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Are you weighed down by the stuff of your family’s memories? - Make it stand out That box of sentimental stuff handed down to you would mean a lot more if you knew the stories behind the stuff, wouldn’t it? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-19-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/7064f0b9-aae2-439d-b15e-c7e21c85d68d/poster-salut-au-monde+copy.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 19, 2024 Vintage poster with original artwork by Richard Halls produced circa 1936 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/03/12/3-tribute-book-ideas-that-honor-lost-loved-ones monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/32a78627-c24b-45ee-97d8-3e514411d8dd/In-loving-memory-tribute-book-photo-of-mother.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 Tribute book ideas that honor lost loved ones - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-5-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/aae0e3b3-a804-4239-bb85-36077c61f9d8/poster-wildlife-deer.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 5, 2024 Vintage poster with original artwork by Frank S. Nicholson produced some time between 1941-1943 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/2/26/why-memory-prompt-journals-dont-work monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/aeeb1181-5510-48d3-a012-68945f5c41ec/fill-in-the-blank-journal-with-handwritten-answers.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why I turned down an offer to publish a memory prompts journal - Make it stand out The memory prompt journal my mother left me had more blank pages than memories. While I cherish the few pages with her handwriting and thoughts, I long for more. This entry ends with a comma—an unfulfilled promise of more to come… https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-20-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/abab4fba-b009-4a5e-b41f-92fe0e467294/poster-keep-mum.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 20, 2024 Vintage poster with original artwork by Edward T. Grigware produced some time between 1941-1943 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/2/12/which-life-writing-book-is-best-for-me monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/5fec0a5a-d8e9-456f-ba91-61c3ba0fcb25/IG-stack-of-best-life-writing-books-alongside-typewriter.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Which life writing book is best for me?” - Make it stand out From the many, many craft books on my bookshelves, these are the five I consider essential for anyone endeavoring to write about their life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b707718a-6925-43f4-ae0e-aea705befc53/to+show-and-to-tell-book-cover2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Which life writing book is best for me?” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e6925c84-6fd9-4f16-8054-a7834c8c91ab/handling-the-truth-book-cover.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Which life writing book is best for me?” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/dac6d708-d63f-410d-a22f-f5b650c8e95c/your-life-as-story-book-cover.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Which life writing book is best for me?” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1b1166d4-3405-4838-8e3a-37cbd37697cb/writing-about-your-life-book-cover.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Which life writing book is best for me?” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/46556ba9-f12e-406a-8d71-d1c2522f782e/yours-truly-book-cover.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Which life writing book is best for me?” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-february-6-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/950788f4-2fa7-445b-862a-b4994b3b9e0f/poster-see-america-welcome-to-montana.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 6, 2024 Vintage poster with original artwork by Richard Halls produced by the Work Projects Administration circa 1938; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/1/29/how-to-write-a-loving-tribute-to-your-spouse-or-partner monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0b61c765-e412-4cc7-8684-e64cb7aec617/why-i-love-you-book-with-heart.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to write a loving tribute to your spouse or partner - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-january-23-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/36b8fde8-4d83-4981-8121-24d772f5074c/poster-east-side-west-side.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 23, 2024 Vintage poster with original artwork by Anthony Velonis produced by the Work Projects Administration circa 1939; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2024/1/15/little-gifts-keep-coming monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/037dfc11-876e-4c24-b0d3-14d50d6500d0/gift-of-a-letter-snowy-red-mailbox.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Little gifts keep coming” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-january-9-2024 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e808bb6e-1600-4036-bb78-09f80e12341b/vintage-new-years-postcard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 9, 2024 Vintage postcard celebrating the new year (“Bonne Année”) courtesy The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-december-12-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fbf5d9f7-d5ce-4935-8ec1-a992cc4fc2f7/poster-winter-in-ny-state.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: December 12, 2023 Vintage poster promoting winter tourism in New York, with original illustration by Jack Rivolta, produced by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/12/5/all-your-write-your-life-questions-answered monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/bede1492-ce08-442e-9901-97d5bc0977df/image-from-rawpixel-id-5916185-jpeg.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - All your Write Your Life questions answered - Make it stand out Are you wondering if our 52 weeks of memory prompts are the right choice to help you or a family member write about your life at last? Read on for answers to all your questions. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-november-28-2023-25j6j monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/6d96f293-aff5-4980-9179-bab713e2a298/poster-ready-to-serve.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 28, 2023 Vintage poster produced by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/11/25/a-years-worth-of-memory-prompts-to-help-you-write-your-life monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8448ad69-3938-4fd2-8efb-44e63eb3c903/IG-write-your-life-annual-memory-prompts-subscription.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A year’s worth of memory prompts to help you write your life - Make it stand out Have you decided you want to subscribe? Click here to purchase our annual Write Your Life email subscription for just $99! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/11/20/writing-memoir-is-gift-to-yourself monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/9137efb0-19bb-4555-8d5c-3b074ee15a1b/heart-stamps-sheet.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “It was more for me than anyone else—what a surprise” - Make it stand out Have you ever considered that writing about your life might be as much a gift for yourself as for your family? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-november-14-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/19348ec5-792e-4c6b-a7a7-98d0378c6de9/poster-see-america-blue-black.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 14, 2023 Vintage poster with original artwork by Alexander Dux promoting tourism, June 1939, produced by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/11/06/are-you-ever-intentional-about-your-memories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ccdf56da-c98b-4ae3-824b-10c615d7d8a0/mom-and-daughter-remembering-with-old-photo-album.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Are you ever intentional about your memories? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-october-31-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0f59b2d6-e6de-4f87-a522-23ab2dc6dae1/halloween-rollerskating-carnival-poster-triptych.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 31, 2023 Vintage poster with original artwork by Martin Weitzman announcing a roller skating carnival in New York City’s Central Park, October 1936, produced by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/10/16/life-writing-journal-prompts monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cb809815-e4c1-42cc-9dca-dd8de51470c1/IG-open-handmade-journal-with-pen-2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Discover life writing journal prompts all around you! - Make it stand out I recently felt called to indulge in a journal a little more special than what I usually write in, and bought this handmade beauty from BINDbyBIND, a partnership between memoirist (and now bookmaker) Beth Kephart and her artist husband, William Sulit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/781be3d3-3d5a-4cd5-a9ff-fb30eaed6fd7/IG-handmade-journal-by-beth-kephart-horiz-3.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Discover life writing journal prompts all around you! - Make it stand out A front view of the hand-bound journal pictured above; I was drawn to the colors (yellow, my mom’s favorite, and blue, mine) and am using this journal just for thoughts on that relationship. Do you have journals set aside for certain types of writing? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-17-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/75e2e645-2b42-423c-a150-7be1ba515123/poster-buckingham-fountain-chicago.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 17, 2023 Vintage poster produced in 1939 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/10/11/index-card-solution-to-family-history-preservatiion monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0d32f9b1-9008-44bc-9d5e-803b656e031b/index-card-filing-system-retro-bw-image.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The index card solution to family history preservation - Make it stand out Don’t worry, you won’t need a library’s worth of card catalog drawers for your family history records—a simple recipe box (or two) should do! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/933464a6-854c-4f4e-850b-62fdc59aa371/image-from-rawpixel-id-6723473-png.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The index card solution to family history preservation Index cards, while great for preserving memories and recipes, do not make the best solution for organizing lots of genealogy materials. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-october-3-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c9718f5c-ee23-409a-8890-3d48f51acb79/poster-natl-letter-writing-month.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 3, 2023 Vintage poster produced in 1940 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/9/26/books-to-inspire-your-own-family-heritage-coobook monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c3d74229-0415-467f-9ffe-705491b2d112/IG-stack-3-hybrid-cookbooks-for-family-food-memories-inspiration-1.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 books to inspire your own family cookbook - Make it stand out These books by Gena Philibert-Ortega, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Rachael Ray are not only brimming with recipes you’ll want to try, but they can serve as incredible inspiration for ways to approach making your OWN hybrid family history/cookbook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cf1dd820-bbaa-430b-bd3c-69a5432f0973/IG-rachael-ray-50-cookbook-on-cutting-board.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 books to inspire your own family cookbook - Make it stand out Rachael Ray 50: Memories and Meals from A Sweet and Savory Life by Rachael Ray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/72d04353-9de9-4a35-947a-e5f5a1a44ba8/IG-rachael-ray-50-cookbook-inside-spread-mamma-leones-memory.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 books to inspire your own family cookbook - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b3db9aff-c632-4f91-a201-b365e959ad07/IG-gwyneth-paltrow-cookbook-inside-spread-memories-with-dad.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 books to inspire your own family cookbook - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f2bafd3f-8769-4063-aa2e-200571aaa187/IG-gwyneth-paltrow-my-fathers-daughter-cookbook-on-cutting-board.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 books to inspire your own family cookbook - Make it stand out My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness by Gwyneth Paltrow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/3bf84939-63c9-457c-9e02-048f302b2b95/IG-from-the-family-kitchen-book-on-cutting-board-horiz.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 books to inspire your own family cookbook - Make it stand out From the Family Kitchen: Discover Your Food Heritage and Preserve Favorite Recipes by Gena Philibert-Ortega https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-19-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/00322859-ddbc-46a4-9efd-97b49d3fd2ca/poster-sept-17-piano-music.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 19, 2023 Vintage poster with original artwork by B. Lassen produced by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/9/11/one-phone-call-at-a-time-family-history-in-disguise monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/81f5b33b-eb02-46ff-96e1-2846664a9397/senior-woman-talking-on-phone.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - One phone call at a time: Family history in disguise - Make it stand out Having intentional phone conversations with a loved one is a fun and meaningful way to begin to document your family history. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-5-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/9ddf75da-c845-499e-9ded-c05ef520c819/poster-september-back-to-books.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 5, 2023 Vintage poster promoting literacy produced by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/8/28/how-to-create-a-vacation-photo-book-or-travel-journal-part-2 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1d46df5d-cf7a-4d87-b43e-625b64be406b/africa-book-spread.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a vacation photo book or travel journal: Part 2 - Make it stand out Organizing photos before you sit down to design your travel memory book will make life soooooo much easier! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f9fd9d70-d799-43fb-be28-a857d37a7b92/Screen+Shot+2023-07-31+at+2.15.46+PM.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a vacation photo book or travel journal: Part 2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/db723df7-c6f1-44ef-adb4-fef1025bf7e7/folder-structure-for-travel-photo-book The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a vacation photo book or travel journal: Part 2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-aug-22-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/98553c05-8983-4e46-aac6-773ce0a6303c/poster-dont-waste-water.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 22, 2023 Vintage poster with original artwork by Earl Kerkam produced some time between 1941-1943 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/8/14/how-to-create-a-vacation-photo-book-or-travel-journal-part-1 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/75c6ed73-a7eb-4bf9-a3d0-3b7104c7b34f/greetings-from-maine-vintage-postcard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a vacation photo book or travel journal: Part 1 - Make it stand out Postcards are waning in popularity, but you may still find some cool vintage or artistic designs on your travels that would make great additions to your travelogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/54600fd7-c418-4b78-9885-3c3007efff19/tuscany-travel-photo.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a vacation photo book or travel journal: Part 1 - Make it stand out If I hadn’t snapped a photo of a nearby street sign before I took this shot of dramatic light on a picturesque church, I would never have known what Tuscany town this was from! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a797eb64-a4da-4339-8188-aec05ca611a0/travel-card-ephemera-for-travel-journal.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a vacation photo book or travel journal: Part 1 - Make it stand out Travel passes, museum ticket stubs, and other ephemera from your trip can be fun additions to your memory book when used in moderation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a9bad9ed-9fa0-4879-a3c2-39da378c459f/podere-la-piaggia-winery-corks.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a vacation photo book or travel journal: Part 1 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0d3c3e43-cb96-4c4b-a552-d52c02433feb/cacti-in-shoes-montepulciano.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a vacation photo book or travel journal: Part 1 - Make it stand out Detail photographs can add wonderful personality to the pages of your travel book. This bin of corks caught my attention on a winery tour not only because they have great texture, but because they say the name of the winery. And these cacti in bronzed shoes in Montepulciano—well, they’re just fun! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-august-7-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a44b329f-a374-4133-8b46-42ec8a35ec60/poster-nyc-airports.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 7, 2023 Vintage poster produced in 1936 or 1937 by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/7/31/how-to-edit-your-family-history-for-clarity monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2dbb2312-d80d-4f49-96f7-16943cd4f7e9/family-history-photo-book-census-graphic.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to edit your family history so it will make sense 20 years from now - Make it stand out graphics in a family history book https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/7/17/how-to-preserve-the-stories-behind-your-family-heirlooms monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1e52010f-e0ab-4523-9b0e-a2bbce0fd6df/blue-rosary-beads-family-heirloom.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to preserve the stories behind your family heirlooms - Make it stand out Photographing your family heirlooms is a first step in preserving their legacy. You can go as basic as snapping a few simple pictures with your phone’s camera or taking the time to style and properly light your heirlooms like I did with this image of my mother’s rosary beads. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-28-2023-3kmjz-nkbcc monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c3aed997-aa74-4ba1-8268-028514328c33/poster-sand-modeling.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 11, 2023 Vintage poster produced by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/7/03/book-review-you-the-story-by-ruta-sepetys monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a1608f22-9518-4ed1-9b5c-73f5114d261a/IG-you-the-story-writers-guide-to-craft-through-memory-inside+copy.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Want to use your life story to inform your fiction? - Make it stand out This new book from Ruth Sepetys, You: The Story, is a great resource for anyone who wants to write fiction informed by their own life experiences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ef7fa152-3f86-4d56-a0fa-d1e6779d8ff2/step-one-post-it.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Want to use your life story to inform your fiction? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e32b1c23-04f7-40be-ad2f-a2df39a1bc06/step-two-post-it.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Want to use your life story to inform your fiction? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/67b1d485-42ab-48c8-a8ac-379fcc555931/step-three-post-it.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Want to use your life story to inform your fiction? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2d851fa2-5517-4132-90a1-1609c12dca41/IG-ruth-sepetys-book-story-of-you-square.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Want to use your life story to inform your fiction? - Your life is a story. One of my favorite bits of wisdom from Ruta Sepetys’s book applies whether you are turning your life stories into fiction or nonfiction: “Use your own best judgment about which memories you might be able to responsibly dig through and which ones you should avoid. Protect your head and your heart. Always.” https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/6/26/how-to-make-birthday-tribute-book-gift monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fcc41fef-cb4f-4a72-8b7e-7ec7d3559a82/IG-milestone-birthday-linen-book-mom-FB-ad-size.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best gift for a milestone birthday? A tribute book filled with love! - Make it stand out Have you ever wondered how to make a tribute book for a loved one’s milestone birthday? Keep reading for a step-by-step plan (plus some tips for writing the best tributes ever!). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0bf4ae69-dd87-4a91-bf6d-292610ec3fc5/IG-birthday-tribute-book-ann-spread1.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best gift for a milestone birthday? A tribute book filled with love! - Make it stand out The best tributes honor the birthday celebrant with specific stories of shared experiences and special times. Selecting key quotes to design larger on the page ensures that even if they’re just flipping through their gift, they will encounter meaningful notes along the way! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-20-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a0bb0782-3ba9-480c-8068-b494a0e723de/poster-foreign-trade-zone.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 20, 2023 Vintage poster produced by the Work Projects Administration in 1937 with artwork by Jack Rivolta; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/6/12/what-should-i-do-with-my-journals monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0d2017c4-3c8e-4a92-930f-2fd6c76d4771/IG-handwritten-journal-spread-2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What should I do with my journals? - Make it stand out So many factors come into play when considering whether to save or destroy your personal journals. What’s your thinking? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-6-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e641d0a3-a36e-4302-80c5-a40e91de812d/poster-philadelphia.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 6, 2023 Vintage poster depicting the Old Swedes Church produced by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/5/29/how-to-record-family-history-stories-at-family-reunion monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1682008026760-AK0HGKLPY7W0JVF1GTHC/unsplash-image-TUUEdIhwNFQ.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 great ways to capture stories at a family reunion - Make it stand out What other occasion will you have access to so many branches of your family in one place? Family reunions are optimal times for gathering family history—and if you go in with a plan, you’ll be able to preserve stories AND have a great time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614195591232-R3MIK31UGOFBBWDO4X17/family-history-questions-for-parents-guide.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 great ways to capture stories at a family reunion - Get your free guide of Essential Family History Questions All the best family history interview questions to capture their (or your!) stories, in a beautiful printable guide https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-23-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/33c32648-43f6-46f6-8f31-210054148812/poster-pet-show.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 23, 2023 Vintage poster depicting an illustration by Arlington Gregg produced by the Work Projects Administration circa late 1930s; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/5/8/wish-you-were-here-mom monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1557509185048-AQZEJQU6BE5XUQFPPZN4/framed-old-photograph-mother-in-wedding-dress.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Wish you were here, Mom missing mother who has passed away on mothers day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1494294280823-89F59IQ1HZ4OK688DHV4/Dawn+Roode+and+Lillian+Roode The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Wish you were here, Mom Dawn Roode and Lillian Roode mother and daughter https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-9-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c0560fef-3c7f-4ef6-97a9-20b6c980003c/poster-no-enemy-sub.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 9, 2023 Vintage poster produced by the Work Projects Administration; image courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital Collection. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia between 1936 to 1943. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/5/1/how-to-write-good-photo-captions monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8cb2eae6-5eba-4811-8464-9ff54dbb96bb/life-story-book-inside-spread-photo-caption.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best photo captions do these things - Make it stand out Every photo caption in your life story book should either tell a story or provide vital information. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-april-25-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b0935af1-48d9-4d22-a4ce-9cb18dec750a/cherry-blossoms-illustration.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 25, 2023 Vintage Japanese print of Gotenyama cherry blossoms by Hiroshige Andō, circa 1846, courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/4/17/using-senses-to-trigger-childhood-memories-for-memoir monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f49bbb01-54a8-4080-b9e4-0ac948243d0b/senior-woman-listening-to-nostalgic-music.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A fun way to spark childhood memories for your memoir - Make it stand out Music is one of the most immediate ways to tap into childhood memories—so listen to some nostalgic songs before sitting down to write your life stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/d59b3c20-692d-4d9a-8042-149126e510cf/smell-coffee-icon.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A fun way to spark childhood memories for your memoir - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/70224d8b-1c2d-4080-825f-dfdbda456c71/headphones-icon.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A fun way to spark childhood memories for your memoir - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-apr-09-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/73f3d9d1-43a9-4c4b-b30b-daafae17b9a4/picnicing-on-the-beach-bw.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 9, 2023 Vintage photo of women having a picnic on the beach in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, circa 1905. Photograph originally from the Detroit Publishing Company, courtesy of The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/4/03/life-writing-lessons-from-obituary-writer monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/74f3f7bb-a8d3-463d-ad87-184725f29f60/life-writing-lessons-from-an-obituary-writer.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life (and life writing) lessons from a WSJ obituary writer - Make it stand out James Hagerty, a longtime obit writer for the Wall Street Journal, shares his years’ worth of life writing wisdom in the book Yours Truly: An Obituary Writer’s Guide to Telling Your Story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cd1cfe21-7282-4549-a26a-aeb95e6ef2a2/yours-truly-hagerty-book.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life (and life writing) lessons from a WSJ obituary writer - Check out the book that inspired this post https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-28-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f45a5de0-507a-4893-a6f8-cf53f1ecd5f7/young-girl-crocheted-hat-vacant-building.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 28, 2023 Vintage photo of a young girl, with other children in background, in a vacant lot behind tenement housing in East Harlem, New York City. Photograph by Rómulo Lachatañeré, courtesy of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/3/27/what-to-do-when-you-have-too-many-memory-keeping-ideas monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/08f7463d-3711-49e9-b46a-4148224b133f/overwhelmed-with-ideas-for-life-stories.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What to do when you have too many memory-keeping ideas - Make it stand out Lots of light bulbs going off in your head? Consider that a good problem to have—chances are your next life writing project is amidst that mental clutter! Take a few steps, outlined below, to hone in on which topic to tackle first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/d09451f3-3511-45f7-9544-610a89bb978b/step-one-narrowing-down-theme-for-memoir.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What to do when you have too many memory-keeping ideas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/41faf440-1911-4bf4-86f4-c2c86c108d7f/step-two-narrowing-down-theme-for-memoir.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What to do when you have too many memory-keeping ideas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e6525ddb-c237-403a-a42b-fcdc5e3285e1/step-3-narrowing-down-theme-for-memoir.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What to do when you have too many memory-keeping ideas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c425e309-d5dd-4cdd-b9e9-4d8ef11ffc5a/step-4-narrowing-down-theme-for-memoir.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What to do when you have too many memory-keeping ideas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/3/20/why-a-coffee-table-life-story-book monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/60e6d646-964e-4a3d-a80e-5ec8914a8d04/coffee-table-books-scene2-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why a “coffee table” life story book? - Make it stand out One of the most compelling reasons to preserve your personal stories in a coffee table book? You’ll display it in your home—which leads to people picking it up and engaging with it…which leads to even MORE story sharing and connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2e11c077-2f19-4708-b565-476d23b36b9e/IG-life-story-book-spread-with-car-photo.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why a “coffee table” life story book? - Make it stand out Large photos and ample white space give your heirloom book visual interest and breathing room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a9b7d06d-80fc-44bd-985b-5a5d46a93ee7/IG-book-spread-with-frame.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why a “coffee table” life story book? - Make it stand out Generations from now your ancestors will not need a new computer or updated software to access your book—they can pull it off the bookshelf and dive right in! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-14-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/326025f7-09ff-46e1-87f8-d2655ec46236/vintage-st-patricks-day-postcard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 14, 2023 Vintage St. Patrick’s Day postcard https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/3/6/best-resources-to-help-write-an-ethical-will-and-leave-a-legacy-beyond-wealth monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cfa64ec3-b1e8-4a3c-993c-a27d5eac2674/IG-ethical-will-workbook-composing-spread-vibrant.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Two great resources to help you write an ethical will - Make it stand out One helpful resource to guide you in writing your own ethical will: this step-by-step book from Susan Turnbull, founder of Massachusetts–based Personal Legacy Advisors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e0ad4f54-9ad9-4579-a195-ec47ca1bb4ae/IG-ethical-will-workbook-composing-spread-close-up.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Two great resources to help you write an ethical will - Make it stand out Susan Turnbull’s workbook is meant to be read and filled in—so get your pen ready! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/240ab2ee-5ccf-4a05-bfb0-5aba9ab95560/IG-for-you-when-i-am-gone-ethical-will-book-vibrant.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Two great resources to help you write an ethical will - Make it stand out I recommend reading Steve Leder’s book twice—once to relish the personal writings within, then again with the intention of answering his questions to craft your own ethical will. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-28-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a227e1d7-b3e8-46a8-afee-4e31a9966769/hotel-st-regis.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 28, 2023 Vintage illustration of diners at the Hotel St. Regis in New York City, circa 1905, courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/2/20/10-step-plan-for-making-a-family-cookbook monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/34591f24-8348-4777-9539-8d77eff10950/granny-cooper-heritage-cookbook-process.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your 10-step plan for making an heirloom-worthy family cookbook - Make it stand out This family cookbook hones in on the recipes of one family member known for her prowess in the kitchen, Granny Cooper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/5a119209-1dea-4430-bac0-e823393d7191/grannys-buttermilk-sherbet-recipe-spread-family-cookbook.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your 10-step plan for making an heirloom-worthy family cookbook - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1599161685619-EIX9T8OERTJ5D9G6W7X3/food-memories-download-ipad-lemons.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your 10-step plan for making an heirloom-worthy family cookbook - Free Guide: Preserving Your Food Memories Download this free printable guide with family history questions designed to elicit food memories. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-14-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/17379409-e58b-4988-a2e7-1b874fabf426/vintage-valentines-print.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 14, 2023 Vintage Valentine’s Day card https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/2/6/memoir-write-the-way-you-talk monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b9511514-791d-46b6-9f45-bed1421f8d7f/heirloom-book-of-jim-brown-leather-gold-imprint-wheat.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Write the way you talk—your family will thank you - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2cbc8515-b310-4d13-bce0-b941bda60b16/authentic-voice-in-memoir-number-one.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Write the way you talk—your family will thank you - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b2da8818-436b-45f1-b3c5-f0f91fc16473/authentic-voice-in-memoir-number-two.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Write the way you talk—your family will thank you - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/4cac745d-d705-419b-9cf1-363b70b4221d/authentic-voice-in-memoir-number-three.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Write the way you talk—your family will thank you - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-jan-31-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/748fcceb-4474-466f-9e69-f7541fd82fde/children-with-new-puppy-photo-by-morris-huberland.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 31, 2023 Vintage photo of children with a puppy in New York City circa mid-twentieth century. Photograph by Morris Huberland, courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/01/23/why-you-should-stop-researching-your-memoir-now monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/239de710-b4ef-4702-9a2f-b3965b6b3359/memoirist-researching-her-family-history-in-library.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why you should stop researching your memoir now - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e957b704-9c58-44cc-bb2b-e48233dbfc91/research-icons.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why you should stop researching your memoir now - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/42eecd8d-9e61-492a-990a-2280d6fa2b70/research-icons2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why you should stop researching your memoir now - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f71ee325-ebf5-4e21-80cc-9ae993fc3b05/research-icons3.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why you should stop researching your memoir now - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-jan-17-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a77fed86-bba0-4821-97ce-cf060d78b02f/martin-luther-king-jr-and-wife.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 17, 2023 Vintage portrait of Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., by Herman Miller, originally appeared in the World Telegram & Sun, 1964, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2023/01/09/to-be-continued-breaking-up-family-history-interviews monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fc0f1195-0c53-44d4-bead-ff1d04a85545/interview-pause.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “To be continued…”: When breaking up a family history interview is wise - Make it stand out There are many times when it’s good to hit the proverbial pause button during a personal history interview—you can always pick up the topic during another session. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-jan-03-2023 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/5ebc13c3-2e93-486b-9789-28b77fa90d1b/children-in-nyc-cold-photo-by-morris-huberland.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 3, 2023 Vintage photo of kids on a cold New York City day, created by Morris Huberland between 1940-1979, courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-dec-13-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fb87517c-0667-4d3c-afe6-e9c3dfa2c761/christmas-holiday-greetings-baby-animals-and-children.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: December 13, 2022 Joyeux Noël! Vintage postcard of children with baby animals—illustration by Pauli Ebner, published by Max Munk—courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/11/17/i-remember-journal-prompt-memory-keeping-exercise monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1293a7f0-f1f0-4f46-9736-efd2806e555a/i-remember-journal-for-memory-keeping.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The low-pressure, high-yield memory-keeping project I’ve recently started - Make it stand out Not every memory-keeping project we undertake needs to be ambitious—even getting one short memory down on paper each night can be both enjoyable and fruitful. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-29-2022-tsrhs monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a69c0db8-a464-45a0-92b5-3995622ffd26/london-street-scene.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 29, 2022 This vintage photograph of a London street scene, taken between 1930-1950, was originally part of a scrapbook in the American Theatre Wing. Photo courtesy the Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/11/21/dont-put-your-memoir-on-your-bucket-list monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1878d7ae-8d9f-4b6b-881b-36d13a0b32b5/IG-old-photo-on-journal-with-pen-closer.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t put your memoir on your bucket list. - Make it stand out journal for memoir writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fe67e5a1-f491-44a5-8abb-bf101e978db1/zinsser-quote-writers-are-custodian-of-memory.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t put your memoir on your bucket list. - Make it stand out “Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what you must become if you want to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.” —William Zinsser https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-15-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e5af0ed0-16d9-433b-9278-9b9c485fcf7f/automat-coffee-promotional-photo.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 15, 2022 Vintage promotional photo for Automat coffee, courtesy of the Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/11/07/how-ive-gotten-to-know-more-than-50-people-ive-never-met-this-year monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/0b4268f8-7dbc-49f4-a4f7-29caf85346b8/in-loving-memory-linen-tribute-books-with-flowers.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How I’ve gotten to know more than 50 people I’ve never met this year - Make it stand out memorial tribute book that creates a legacy of your lost loved one https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a5920992-5ff0-4314-9a84-94b8298865a1/IG-remembering-christofer-dedication-page.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How I’ve gotten to know more than 50 people I’ve never met this year - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/24a83cf9-121d-4782-abcb-d48d8af5f8be/IG-remembering-walter-w-ribbon-from-above.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How I’ve gotten to know more than 50 people I’ve never met this year - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-01-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/132a064e-4eac-49c2-83ba-655b8b64f125/kids-football-photo-by-wallace-kirkland-oct-1947.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 1, 2022 Vintage photo of a kids’ football team, October 1947, by Wallace Kirkland for LIFE magazine; © Time. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/10/24/exhibit-reveals-history-through-personal-portraits-survivors-faces-of-life-after-the-holocaust-review monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/aaefb33e-3e34-4ed8-9833-a25e1a2a319e/survivors-faces-of-holocaust-monograph-top-new.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Exhibit reveals history through personal portraits: “Survivors: Faces of Life after the Holocaust” review - Make it stand out The monograph of photographs by Martin Schoeller, Survivors: Faces of Life after the Holocaust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/78d3759c-3998-4fa3-a2e1-c4ca1afaa225/survivors-faces-of-holocaust-monograph-bottom-new.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Exhibit reveals history through personal portraits: “Survivors: Faces of Life after the Holocaust” review - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-18-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ae3808dd-5dcd-43a3-988b-d4a93ffab75f/children-in-halloween-costumes-nyc-photo-by-morris-huberland.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 18, 2022 - Make it stand out Vintage photo of children in costume on Halloween in New York City, taken between 1940-1979 by Morris Huberland, courtesy of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/10/03/leave-a-legacy-that-is-a-blessing-to-your-descendants monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/9b928173-96e2-4914-af29-a6fe20d1a231/generations-of-family-celebrating-together.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Leave a legacy that is a blessing to your descendants - Make it stand out Leave your descendants more than a financial legacy—leave them a legacy of stories, too. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-04-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ac4f9549-03ea-451e-bb36-a0c0f6e5ecfd/temple-de-thesee-athens-vintage-postcard.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 4, 2022 - Make it stand out Vintage postcard depicting the “Temple de Thésée, Athènes,” courtesy of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/09/26/a-funand-easyexercise-for-generating-new-autobiographical-writing monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/543d1c84-03c9-4df4-b7bc-9dead017bccf/one-sentence-memoir-writing-prompt.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A fun—and easy!—exercise for generating new autobiographical writing - Make it stand out This simple writing prompt will get you typing—and it will provide lots of ideas for future writing, too. All it takes is eight minutes! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8fc89e7a-1872-4501-87b5-9cfe86ffb9f1/six-word-memoirs-logo.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A fun—and easy!—exercise for generating new autobiographical writing - Get inspired! For inspiration, check out the Six-Word Memoirs site—it’s chock-full of small-dose mini-memoirs (or order one of their books to keep by your desk). https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-22-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a42faa61-09b4-47ad-b4d7-fcf0679affc4/three-children-nyc-photo-by-morris-huberland-triptych.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 20, 2022 - Make it stand out Vintage photo of three children in New York City taken some time between 1940-1979 by Morris Huberland, courtesy of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/09/12/to-write-the-past-a-supportive-companion-for-thoughtful-memoirists monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/6f671c6a-d080-46b8-9010-f8042e77e902/to-write-the-past-book-review-for-memoir-writers.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “To Write the Past”: A supportive companion for thoughtful memoirists - Make it stand out To Write the Past: A Memoir Writer’s Companion by Sara Mansfield Taber https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-06-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/5862546f-619b-443b-b079-e84f8cfe1c21/woman-with-baby-harlem-ny.w.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 6, 2022 - Make it stand out Vintage photo of a woman holding a baby outside of a building from which they had been evicted, Harlem, New York, 1954. Photograph courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/8/29/why-now-is-the-right-time-to-begin-your-memoir monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e0ceed70-8d90-4bc5-99c0-a1fd146e05d6/young-people-can-write-memoirs-too.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Stop waiting, start writing: Why now is the right time to begin your memoir. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-aug-23-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/add9e8b6-aae4-4c0a-aa48-60a7e2542316/regal-movie-theater.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 23, 2022 Vintage photo of a Regal movie theater in Southside, Chicago, April 1941. Photograph by Russell Lee, originally for the Office of War Information, courtesy of The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/8/15/the-best-graphics-to-add-to-your-family-history-book monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f97588a7-b99c-48eb-95b5-bba5b8dc3540/spread-of-family-heirloom-bronzed-shoes.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best graphics to add to your family history book - Make it stand out Shooting some of your family’s most treasured heirlooms for your book not only provides beautiful visuals to accompany your stories, it ensures that the details of those heirlooms will get passed on. These happen to be my bronzed baby shoes from 1970. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1f1305cc-0a2a-400e-8c57-36476f30f6e3/family-tree-page-vertical.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best graphics to add to your family history book - Make it stand out Family tree charts can be a simple ancestor chart such as this one, embellished with an illustrated tree and roots; or they can be extensive all-in-one genealogy documents listing multiple generations, with all relations including ancestors and descendants (the larger a family gets the more challenging it can become to print an all-in-one tree in your book; in that case, multiple graphics of each family line are recommended). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1e52010f-e0ab-4523-9b0e-a2bbce0fd6df/blue-rosary-beads-family-heirloom.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best graphics to add to your family history book - Make it stand out Using proper lighting and adding props to your family heirlooms help make the resulting photos worthy of inclusion in your heirloom book. How much more boring would these blue glass rosary beads be if they were shot simply from above on a table with your smart phone? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/081f21ff-a305-40a6-b1be-274d8f4098f8/the-doorknob-book-spread-1.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best graphics to add to your family history book - Make it stand out Heirlooms can be unexpected—such as this gorgeous glass doorknobs shown here: “I was born into the bedroom with the glass doorknob and I didn’t leave it until I got married at age 23,” the subject remembers; she uses the object as a jumping-off point for stories from her life in that home (she even took the doorknob with her when the house was sold—a true heirloom). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/708abd83-2e09-43cb-8102-4d3358aa09de/vintage-topographical-map-ohio-counties-1872.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best graphics to add to your family history book - Make it stand out An example of a vintage map you might include in your family history book: This one is an 1872 topographical map of Adams, Brown, Highland, Pike, and Scioto Counties in Ohio, originally published by Stedman, Brown & Lyon, Cincinnati, 1872; courtesy of David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. The Rumsey collection allows for downloads of varying sizes so you can ensure you have the highest resolution for printing in your book. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/08/01/writing-about-your-life-is-not-a-selfish-act monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/38b68ad3-84c9-4f14-8fb0-f9aef3eb71e5/senior-man-writing-memoir.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Writing about your life is not a selfish act - Make it stand out Writing about your life is an act of generosity, period. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-24-2020-gg4b5-lghlf-t7swm monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2188a64b-8644-4f10-a386-931c9f92fd44/s-s-octorara-ship-vintage-postcard.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 26, 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/7/20/im-feeling-stuck-with-my-life-story-writing-can-you-relate monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e0a0d803-9659-49ba-ba58-878ed8c63782/writers-block-crumpled-papers.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - I’m feeling stuck with my life story writing (can you relate?) - Make it stand out When our memoir writing feels overwhelming and writer’s block sets in, sometimes a project reset is in order. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-july-12-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/02986bcf-2546-48bd-bd93-5bd59deaf4dc/merry-go-round-fourth-of-july-fsa.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 12, 2022 Vintage photo of a father with his daughters on a merry-go-round during the Fourth of July carnival in Vale, Oregon, in 1941. Photograph by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration, courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/7/4/how-to-decide-which-photos-to-use-in-your-life-story-book monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/d98df292-c46b-49f4-ac9d-b44779fc2d3d/DEAR_DAUGHTER_0011.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to decide which photos to use in your life story book - Make it stand out Rule number one: You don’t want to use ALL of your photos in your life story book. Thoughtfully choosing which pictures help tell your story—and elicit emotions—will produce a finished product that feels inviting and impactful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/daecbd86-cdbc-44c6-ad3f-d9e97cb63a22/brooklyn-travel-photos-better-with-people.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to decide which photos to use in your life story book - Make it stand out The image on the left, above, would be great in a travel album, but the one on the right—which shows not only the Brooklyn Bridge but the person who was visiting—is better suited to a family history book. Below, wouldn’t you agree that the photograph of an old family home resonates more when there are people in the frame, too? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/df74d08c-f7b4-487a-8f39-bb83b0af42d8/vintage-house-images-better-with-people.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to decide which photos to use in your life story book - Make it stand out vintage photos of old family home for family history book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/571f2b1f-d7ef-4b1c-bef4-ee3956d72bf3/details-provide-context-and-texture-family-history-photos.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to decide which photos to use in your life story book - Make it stand out In all three photos above, details—from the old television boxes to the wood paneling to the trophies and the plastic-covered couch—provide texture and context, making them fun choices for your life story book. Another idea, below: Photograph small items that bring your stories to life, such as these Civil Defense Identification Tags from the 1950s (these belonged to my mom and her brother) or this tasseled dance card from 1889 (a cherished memento from a former client). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/47745cfa-4b14-4e1d-bcb0-76054862e405/civil-defense-id-tags-nyc-and-1889-dance-card-details.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to decide which photos to use in your life story book - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ad9582c9-6618-46f2-bbac-f531b1d06931/candid-photos-show-personality.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to decide which photos to use in your life story book - Make it stand out Candid photos are vibrant—they jump off the pages of your family history book with energy and life. Certainly used those posed pictures and studio portraits to identify family members, but don’t forget to include images that show your loved ones’ personalities, as well. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-28-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e57f87ef-8bae-4e15-917b-f49a3c693735/vintage-postcard-moonlight-at-palm-beach-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 28, 2022 Vintage postcard, issued between 1898–1931, portraying a moonlit Palm Beach in Florida. Image courtesy of the The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/6/20/3-awesome-food-memoirs-not-written-by-chefs monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/20da1c7c-8fa5-4c9a-8c3b-849e40154e65/3-awesome-food-memoirs-not-written-by-chefs-graphic.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome food memoirs not written by chefs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e05ce772-99aa-4eb2-9294-9550cd0b93f9/trail-of-crumbs-food-memoir-book-cover.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome food memoirs not written by chefs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/82d96fa3-47e8-42a8-a950-b06aa6fc65bc/memoir-book-cover-finding-freedom-by-erin-french.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome food memoirs not written by chefs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/c5b5e813-632d-4dbb-a12e-b7c47f9ab810/food-memoir-book-cover-kitchen-yarns-by-ann-hood.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome food memoirs not written by chefs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-14-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8581b078-9179-4bc5-bd5c-8bc267a4db5f/flag-day-two-panel.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 14, 2022 - Make it stand out United Nations Heroes marching in the Flag Day parade during United Nations week in Oswego, New York, in June 1943. Photographed by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information; courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/6/6/americans-regret-not-recording-stories-of-their-loved-ones monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/940d3cef-7e7e-403f-a640-ea12641ec69a/man-grieving-lost-loved-one-wth-photo.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Americans regret not recording stories of their loved ones—don’t be one of them. - Make it stand out Capture the stories of your loved ones before it’s too late. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-31-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/5004b949-46fe-4a45-8e3c-773af101a67d/sea-bathing-avalon-santa-catalina-california-vintage-postcard-rt.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 31, 2022 Vintage postcard depicting sea bathers in Avalon, Santa Catalina, California, circa 1903. Courtesy of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/5/22/on-the-ever-changing-nature-of-our-stories-in-conversation-with-rachael-cerrotti monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1ca96963-eaab-4080-84ed-6c35923eff5b/we-share-the-same-sky.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - On the ever-changing nature of our stories: In conversation with Rachael Cerrotti - Make it stand out Memoirist and host of the podcast “We Share the Same Sky,” Rachael Cerrotti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1369511f-5b8a-479b-8278-1cf56c328e45/IG-we-share-the-same-sky-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - On the ever-changing nature of our stories: In conversation with Rachael Cerrotti - Make it stand out We Share the Same Sky by Rachael Cerrotti https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-16-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f656d150-b0db-47a9-99f0-e1d8ce3f2641/ragged-boys-on-bike-nyc-photo-by-morris-huberland-triptych.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 17, 2022 This vintage photo of boys on a tricycle in New York City was taken by Morris Huberland circa 1950. Photograph courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, New York Public Library Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/5/11/10-heirloom-book-ideas-to-preserve-family-history monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f5d7e5d2-e92d-4c01-bf40-663c0fab1d1e/family-heritage-cookbook-spread.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 10 Heirloom book ideas to preserve your family history - Make it stand out A family cookbook—complete with the stories behind the recipes—is a great option for families whose love language is food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b5b3bde0-e6dd-4541-a247-225cfb730d92/africa-book-spread.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 10 Heirloom book ideas to preserve your family history - Make it stand out Record your journeys in a travel book so you can revisit your memories from the comfort of home (and inspire the next generation to travel in your footsteps). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/aa1090e6-0489-4237-80c8-8700cada0af1/IG-two-leather-heirloom-books-with-copper-imprint-glinting.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 10 Heirloom book ideas to preserve your family history - Make it stand out Your stories matter—tell them in your own words, and they will resonate with loved ones for generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/af9894b9-5e8e-4a3e-bb1a-e64511e0dbae/IG-remembering-walter-w-ribbon-from-above.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 10 Heirloom book ideas to preserve your family history - Make it stand out Honor a loved one’s memory by preserving tributes in an heirloom book that you and your family can open any time to feel closer to them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cce31250-9875-40d4-8a6d-b4a89c704870/homeland-heritage-heirloom-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 10 Heirloom book ideas to preserve your family history - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-3-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f18df755-8a78-457e-baf7-869b4f4a364d/postcard-staten-island-nypl-digitalcollections.510d47d9-ca29-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 3, 2022 On this vintage postcard, horse-drawn carriages idle along Richmond Avenue at Bergen Point Ferry in Staten Island, New York. Image courtesy of the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/4/19/conducting-family-history-interviews-with-a-couple monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/7326f50f-c578-4abe-8679-afd86cfbda21/grandparents-holding-hands.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Double the fun: Interviewing Grandma &amp; Grandpa together - Make it stand out Conducting family history interviews with a couple such as your grandparents or parents can be a fun endeavor if you ask the right questions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614792300719-PCUBT2Y5PDUKTVKN4FMQ/young-girl-interviewing-her-grandmother.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Double the fun: Interviewing Grandma &amp; Grandpa together - THE KID KIT: Everything you need to interview your grandparents This 20-page FREE e-book is designed for kids 8 and over (and we mean way over!). Get ready to start connecting… https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-april-19-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e961d9eb-6142-45d0-b87e-b27d3abf389a/spring-illinois-1962-francis-miller.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 19, 2022 - Make it stand out Vintage black and white photograph of a young girl in Illinois, spring 1962, by Francis Miller for Life magazine, © Time Inc. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/4/11/think-youre-too-busy-to-write-about-your-life-think-again monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/9ceda168-3733-4d1e-879b-89d1fc7911b8/IG-black-journal-cover-angled-soft-focus-silver-pen-orange-stem.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Think you’re too busy to write about your life? Think again. - Make it stand out Want to commit to writing your memoir? Let’s do this together! I’ll give you three ways to make the process more efficient so it takes less time; and you need to say “yes” to carving out space on your schedule. Ready? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/4/4/best-practices-for-recording-family-history-interviews-at-home monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/145c6c8d-c77f-4f79-940f-bf78548d6d9f/TRIBUTE_0035_BW.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Best practices for recording family history interviews at home - Make it stand out You need minimal equipment to interview a family member at home, like this Zoom recorder on a mini tripod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1f78cd69-3d91-4df7-add3-c761a78ac86d/woman-with-interview-notes.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Best practices for recording family history interviews at home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/7d9816fd-e6d0-4eff-8243-f3020e869979/woman-with-microphone.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Best practices for recording family history interviews at home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/667fe0ea-5aa6-4f91-967e-e0367b2e5344/military-veteran.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Best practices for recording family history interviews at home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-29-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f7e26d0a-e1c8-43e8-a89f-c223dae9bdba/girls-baseball.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 29, 2022 Vintage photo of Washington Senators coach Nick Altrock with Dot Meloy, who, according to the original caption, was in training as a side line entertainer; 1920. Photograph from the National Photo Company Collection, courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/3/21/why-not-make-your-own-legacy-list monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/dae81327-1a1b-48e7-8a91-04e2affbbe68/AT3A0228.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why not make your own legacy list? - Make it stand out A well-loved donut cutter has been passed through generations of my neighbor’s family—and best of all, they continue to use it and share stories of those who used it before them! An heirloom doesn’t have to be so precious that it sits in a box untouched; those we stitch into the fabric of our lives through regular use are often even more meaningful! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-15-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/35927ecb-fe22-443b-b199-63ed7dbc4d3f/vintage-st-patricks-ireland-print.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 15, 2022 In honor of St. Patrick’s Day this week, a vintage shamrock postcard with “Scenes from dear old Ireland” https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/2/18/why-add-captions-to-your-family-photo-book monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/58b604e1-eb02-45a3-bea2-5e8915e9561f/photo-book-spread-with-white-space.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Wait, your photo book has no captions? - Make it stand out Whether your photo book includes current snaps for a family yearbook or older images for a family history retrospective like this one, it’s important to include some captions. Design with ample white space and classic typefaces for an engaging and modern feel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/f3effa10-a0b7-4a38-9773-e6d8eabe3eb3/font-family-weight-samples-serif.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Wait, your photo book has no captions? - Make it stand out An example of a serif font family with various weights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b17a5142-7407-4acc-ab5f-34e2bfd31788/font-family-weight-samples-sans-serif.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Wait, your photo book has no captions? - Make it stand out An example of a sans serif font family with various weights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cb217171-a6a5-481b-8555-f6a032076b0d/book-design-with-graphic-pullquote.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Wait, your photo book has no captions? - Make it stand out A graphic pull quote can accompany an enlarged photo such as this, or can go alongside a block of text or handwritten letter to create visual interest and an emotional touchpoint for someone just flipping through your photo book. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-1-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/665e6969-aeb8-4951-b533-f3e8a7237296/girls-playing-cards-1941-arthur-siegel.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 1, 2022 Vintage photograph of women playing cards and drinking Coca Cola in 1941 by Arthur Siegel. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Digital Collection (transferred from the United States Office of War Information, Overseas Picture Division, Washington). https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/2/28/best-rootstech-sessions-for-family-storytellers-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/5537f656-d474-404e-ab9e-01560c47c7f2/rootstech-2022-laptop-with-storytelling-sessions.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 14 Best RootsTech sessions for family storytellers in 2022 - Make it stand out Why waste time browsing through hundreds of session descriptions? If you’re interested in learning about preserving and sharing family stories and photos at RootsTech 2022, then look no further and bookmark this page—I’ve curated the best options for family story keepers below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ab75638d-9d1e-4b0a-a35d-c6e0fe572c42/RootsTech-family-storytelling-sessions.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 14 Best RootsTech sessions for family storytellers in 2022 - Make it stand out The best family storytelling sessions at RootsTech 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b402e38f-a233-48f0-9d2e-70a6aa899358/RootsTech2022-family-photos-sessions.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 14 Best RootsTech sessions for family storytellers in 2022 - Make it stand out RootsTech 2022 sessions geared at teaching about managing and telling the stories behind your family photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a11f91f9-300c-47d6-9643-870e87d4ee5a/RootsTech2022-apps-and-technology-sessions.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 14 Best RootsTech sessions for family storytellers in 2022 - Make it stand out A curated list of RootsTech 2022 sessions geared at helpful genealogy apps and technology https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/2/17/storytelling-hack-talk-dont-write monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/2b2a36ca-65e7-4b01-ae6b-88c94647ec1f/headphones-and-recorder-soft-horizontal.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Storytelling hack: Talk, don’t write. - Make it stand out Telling your stories out loud and recording them is a great option if you want to preserve your personal history but don’t feel comfortable writing. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-14-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e9b8b8b1-ed08-4918-b44a-8a57dc8324be/vintage-valentine-postcard-swallow-holding-heart-sealed-letter-with-greeting.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 14, 2022 Vintage Valentine’s Day postcard depicting a swallow carrying a love note. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/2/7/enduring-value-of-family-stories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/688bc6c9-d465-4154-a180-6e78e50c00c6/intergenerational-storytelling-family-time.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Today: “I don’t care.” Tomorrow: “That was life-changing.” - Make it stand out Your granddaughter is too young to really listen to or understand some of your stories right now—but one day she may need to hear them, to be nourished by the lessons and comforted by your shared experiences. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-1-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/60e35846-1cce-46ef-8df7-d18e23b5d2cb/Narihira-journey-east-nypl.digitalcollections.510d47e3-9aa3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 1, 2022 "Narihira’s journey east," a 1770 book illustration, courtesy of Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/1/14/the-simple-reason-your-life-story-project-never-gets-finished monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e94c896a-aee8-4665-8786-73719f038e16/deadline-on-calendar-for-journalingpsd.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The simple reason your life story project never gets finished - Make it stand out Setting a deadline for your life story writing project will help you get it done rather than languishing on your to do list. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/01/09/most-anticipated-memoir-and-writing-books-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/18cf929b-283e-43f6-81f9-d40ec8b66501/most-anticipated-books-2022-memoir-journals-life-writing.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out Dawn Roode of Modern Heirloom Books selects her most anticipated books of 2022 including memoirs, books on writing, and journals and diaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/4f64a451-028d-4191-b2fa-791a001596c1/write-it-all-down-book.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page by Cathy Rentzenbrink https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/028324e4-da6f-4f7d-9d7a-f5ab766e449d/keep-the-memories-lose-the-stuff-book.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life by Matt Paxton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/881b9c67-99ca-4ce3-848c-ab7b167345b4/body-work-the-radical-power-of-personal-narrative-book.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; 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craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/90e9c7ad-0c3c-4891-a513-55afa847b676/the-unwritten-book-memoir.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out The Unwritten Book: An Investigation by Samantha Hunt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/9f342678-ddc9-420b-a2db-ee32f6e5180b/left-on-tenth-memoir-book.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/67fccc53-0403-4d50-8037-a29e12d4443d/bomb-shelter-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosive by May Laura Philpott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ed16336c-8cb2-46ff-af11-3e3bd4c1c63d/the-crane-wife-a-memoir-in-essays-book.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by CJ Hauser https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/ed53f356-4f7c-4f32-9acf-2539df09ea5f/crying-in-the-bathroom-book.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir by Erika L. Sánchez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/b14cebc8-3f5e-4651-a099-5da788f923f8/gathering-blossoms-under-fire-journals-of-alice-walker-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out The Journals of Alice Walker Edited by Valerie Boyd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/8fc6c399-6c58-4eff-9f5a-5f58efc7256b/kafka-diaries-2022-translation.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most anticipated memoir &amp; craft books of 2022 - Make it stand out The Diaries of Franz Kafka 2022 Translation book cover https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-jan-18-2022 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fd2247aa-6f2a-424c-afc1-c70f67fb5fc4/franklin-township-girl.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 18, 2022 Vintage photo of a young girl in Franklin Township, New Jersey, February 1936, by Carl Mydans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration. Photograph courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2022/01/03/telling-photo-stories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/58a9b921-6f8d-4cf4-943a-7c0413ce59e5/frame-with-photo-and-photo-story.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Simple, modern memory-keeping: How to tell the stories behind your family photos - Make it stand out Here’s a sample caption that tells the story behind the photo above—in fewer than 200 words: “I will always remember Abuela Manuela wearing a brightly patterned house dress, smiling, and smelling like garlic or some other pungent spice that seemed to permeate her pores. Every time we visited her home in Paramus, New Jersey, she had something for dinner simmering on the stove (to this day I often cook her recipe for ropa vieja, but it’s never quite the same!). She used to slip dollar bills or fifty-cent coins into our pockets when we were leaving as kids, but it was her hugs that I longed for—they were tight and comforting, and you could feel the love. This picture of her in her kitchen in 1990 captures her spirit just so: her lipstick always smudged from the countless kisses she bestowed on her grandchildren, her gold jewelry always on, even if she was working in the garden outside, and bathed in the warm glow of her favorite room—a room where we kids were always welcomed, and always spoiled. We miss you, Abuela!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/cb6d4dd7-343e-45ed-b9cd-592878b0e52d/snail-mail-postage-stamp.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Simple, modern memory-keeping: How to tell the stories behind your family photos - Make it stand out For a few dollars more than the cost of a postage stamp you can create and send a customized postcard to a loved one that will delight and surprise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/647e67e4-3e7b-4852-90d2-6143f92ecb2e/IG-bridal-shower-photo-on-keyboard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Simple, modern memory-keeping: How to tell the stories behind your family photos - Make it stand out Whether you are journaling digitally or by hand, be sure to include the photo at the beginning of your story—and include the vital details that you might assume are a given, but that truly need to be recorded to ensure they are not forgotten: who, what, when, and where! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-dec-14-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fc8a6f2c-10a0-447b-9e9d-6faa37c75075/postman-triptych.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: December 14, 2021 Vintage photo of postman with his sack of deliveries; the magazine in front is The Literary Digest, dated May 22, 1920. Original photograph from Bain News Service, 1920, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, digital collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/12/06/two-unexpected-writing-prompts-about-family monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a54d9401-629c-4fd7-afd5-73380d5769cc/IG-what-is-family-scrabble-tiles.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Two unexpected writing prompts about family - Make it stand out Have you ever thought meaningfully about what family means to you? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-30-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1637259533177-C8YYW0Q7501ECQYPRG26/midnight-supper-photographed-by-marjory-collins.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 30, 2021 Midnight supper at Nan Hannegan's twentieth birthday party, May 1943, Niagara Falls, New York; her mother took in girl war workers as boarders. Photograph by Marjory Collins, courtesy Library of Congress Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/11/10/3-best-holiday-gift-ideas-that-honor-family-memories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/01401675-10c3-4ae9-881c-706662d2dd4a/memory-keeping-gift-ideas-for-christmas.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 Best holiday gift ideas that honor family memories - Make it stand out One-of-a-kind gifts that preserve memories are the best kind of holiday presents! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a5e7c33f-d43c-410d-9f25-a7d959451530/heritage-cookbook-icon.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 Best holiday gift ideas that honor family memories - Make it stand out An heirloom cookbook with family recipes and food memories can make a unique and heartfelt holiday gift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1671c2d3-dac3-42ed-80c9-b8a6ed265f1d/cell-phone-with-photos-icon.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 Best holiday gift ideas that honor family memories - Make it stand out Our cell phones have become repositories for our photos—but if you don’t print or do something with them, they are just https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/4faa9775-739a-40ad-9006-8062dae3b42a/schedule-consultation-calendar-icon.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 Best holiday gift ideas that honor family memories - Make it stand out Put a date on your schedule to interview your family member about all the stories from their life. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-16-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/a12af06b-d647-42ef-9243-43dff7bd0c2c/vintage-thanksgiving-postcard-greetings.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 16, 2021 Autumn vibes on a vintage Thanksgiving postcard https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/11/8/family-potluck-reminiscing-and-recipes monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1563910118526-FDT79WA5334ATNMPLZAS/taste-of-the-past-food-memories-card.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Family potluck: reminiscing and recipes Ask family members about their favorite food memories and record these tasty bits of family history in a heritage cookbook—or simply stash them in a recipe box. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1606769130521-4CSW4N9DN562J4KPXZ24/IG-card-array-angled-christmas-twine-rectangle.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Family potluck: reminiscing and recipes - Limited-time SALE on food heritage gift set! Through the end of November 2021, input code GRATITUDE at checkout for 25% off our Taste of the Past recipe & memory card set (they make a great holiday host gift, too!). https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-2-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1634689314653-8T857J99Z8BXX7GDAT23/woman-suffrage-headquarters-cleveland-1921.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 2, 2021 Vintage news photo of woman suffrage headquarters on Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, circa 1912, with editor’s marking of “A,” “B,” and “C” as a guide for identifying key figures: A, Miss Belle Sherwin, president, National League of Women Voters; B, Judge Florence E. Allen (holding the flag); and C, Mrs. Malcolm McBride. Photographed by Harris & Ewing and International (New York), courtesy Library of Congress. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/10/24/3-awesome-and-easy-thanksgiving-memory-keeping-ideas monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/fdce892f-a668-4415-a284-67f05df7df22/IG-grandma-lillians-handwritten-recipe-thanksgiving-styling-1.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome (and easy!) Thanksgiving memory-keeping ideas - Make it stand out Thanksgiving is a great time for capturing memories including recipes and family stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/25eee373-3b07-4d6c-a118-943da3a5419e/IG-documenting-thanksgiving-recipe-phone-camera-straight.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome (and easy!) Thanksgiving memory-keeping ideas - Make it stand out In addition to writing down your family recipes, snap a few photos of a family member cooking the food, of the ingredients (especially unique or hard-to-find ones), and of the finished dish; whether or not you eventually put them into a family cookbook, your family photo archive will be more complete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/115802e2-dada-4e8e-aa92-db0e8f767411/IG-2021-thanksgiving-gratitude-jar-with-handwritten-notes.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome (and easy!) Thanksgiving memory-keeping ideas - Make it stand out A handmade gratitude jar is easy to make and even easier to incorporate into your Thanksgiving festivities—I bet it will become a new tradition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/e23af467-c094-45ec-9291-771565153cca/IG-thanksgiving-family-history-interview-questions-with-voice-recorder.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome (and easy!) Thanksgiving memory-keeping ideas - Make it stand out Thanksgiving is a great time to interview family members about food heritage, holiday traditions, and favorite childhood memories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1600361318544-1NSIVQIU8PTPT3T7VK0N/thanksgiving-questions-ipad.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome (and easy!) Thanksgiving memory-keeping ideas - Free Printable Thanksgiving Guide Download this handy e-book with 55 family history questions perfect for Thanksgiving day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605743654903-Z6DZ2Y55V9WLJO972Q9W/food-heritage-write-your-life-course.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 awesome (and easy!) Thanksgiving memory-keeping ideas - Great gift idea! Invite a beloved family member to share their stories via inspirational prompts specifically designed to capture food memories—just $15 for 8 weeks of writing prompts! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-18-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1634234245947-M7YCFTC3MQ9DG3H1NB83/vintage-photo-kids-halloween-party-1939.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 18, 2021 Children at a Halloween party in Osage Farms, Missouri, October 1939. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/10/11/2021/three-writers-use-vignettes-to-craft-moving-memoirs monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1632176576046-OZINLIF67DRE5KLYKFSG/IG-three-memoirs-in-vignettes-stacked.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Three writers use vignettes to craft moving memoirs - Make it stand out Memoirs in essays by Beth Kephart, Sarah Manguso, and Beth Ann Fennelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1632176735991-A8YKDEB5UKI2NGZLAHKL/IG-ongoingness-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Three writers use vignettes to craft moving memoirs - Make it stand out Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso is crafted using short vignettes that add up to a textured and revealing whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1632176839189-6C131S262BN8XLCOY75T/IG-heating-and-cooling-micro-memoir-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Three writers use vignettes to craft moving memoirs - Make it stand out Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly is another example of a memoir crafted by short bits of narrative woven together to create a unique portrait of the writer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1632177025104-P1E3Q2FBULBKP5645MOZ/wife-daughter-self-book-3.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Three writers use vignettes to craft moving memoirs - Make it stand out Wife | Daughter | Self by Beth Kephart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1597088390254-NNO43O36JD16PIEHT6QN/life-story-vignettes-ipad-screen.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Three writers use vignettes to craft moving memoirs - Download Free Writing Prompts Guide Get all our life story vignette writing prompts in one easy-to-read printable guide! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-5-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1632325067464-YI99H8LTZBZQXYG81R14/kids-football-photo-by-wallace-kirkland-oct-1947-2.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 5, 2021 Vintage photo of kids playing football, October 1947, by Wallace Kirkland for LIFE magazine; © Time. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/9/27/whats-it-like-to-create-an-heirloom-book-together-let-some-folks-with-experience-tell-you monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1631896425389-T3TBX684PPLCVN1RHHRT/IG-dawn-hand-on-chin-at-computer-bright.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What’s it like to create an heirloom book together? Let some folks with experience tell you... - Make it stand out When I’m not interviewing clients or working directly with families to curate their photos and mementos, I can usually be found at my computer editing and designing your heirloom books. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-21-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1631128281273-XCSZC7MYT6WM52MT1RUZ/Harold+Garrity+and+family-arthur-rothstein.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 21, 2021 Vintage photo of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Garrity and family at home in Yonkers, New York, circa 1942, photographed by Arthur Rothstein. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/9/2/artful-memory-keeping-ideas-from-the-craft-book-draw-your-world-by-samantha-dion-baker monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1630347661609-3K1P4DELRQ9Q20MT6XCV/IG-draw-your-world-book-w-pen-closer.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Artful memory-keeping ideas from the world of sketch journaling - Make it stand out Draw Your World: How to Sketch and Paint Your Remarkable Life by Samantha Dion Baker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1630348720126-ROBV8A7Q8970T9ZX3QOP/Screen+Shot+2021-08-30+at+2.38.01+PM.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Artful memory-keeping ideas from the world of sketch journaling - Make it stand out A few squares from the Instagram feed of Samantha Dion Baker showing sketches from her journals, where she captures both details from her everyday life and bigger moments from vacations and family milestones. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-7-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1630339354209-MLA6LYGU61BXPAOQ9SFN/women-picking-carrots-october-1938-nj.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 7, 2021 Vintage photograph of women picking carrots in Camden County, New Jersey, October 1938, by Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, courtesy Library of Congress Photo Archive. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/8/30/family-history-lessons-i-learned-during-the-pandemic monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1628091287289-190HKY4WJ7FX9NRRNJOA/TRIBUTE_0032-retouched-face.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 lessons I re-learned during the pandemic - Make it stand out We are living through history as this pandemic continues to ebb and flow and wreak havoc on what we consider normal. Some of my long-held beliefs have been challenged, particularly around my personal history work. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-aug-24-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1628530468700-3AZ4MQVDIIRWS02KP54R/trinity-church-nypl.digitalcollections-retouched.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 24, 2021 Vintage postcard of Trinity Church in Boston, 1899. Photograph courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1898-1931. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/8/16/how-to-be-a-good-storyteller-if-you-are-the-subject-of-a-family-history-interview monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1627677140336-QG0K4B92OW1080Y4WNGQ/personal-history-interview-recording The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to be a good storyteller if you are the subject of a family history interview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614195591232-R3MIK31UGOFBBWDO4X17/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to be a good storyteller if you are the subject of a family history interview - Get your free guide of Essential Family History questions All the best family history interview questions to capture their (or your!) stories, presented in a beautiful printable guide https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-august-9-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1627413008819-Z6CVNZKU0Y8ENYGOWUUO/waldseemuller-map.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 9, 2021 A little “on this day in history” trivia: On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World. It is commonly believed that his contemporaries feared he would sail off the edge of the Earth, but the fact is that 15-century Europeans did not believe the Earth to be flat. This reproduction of a 1507 world map by Martin Waldseemuller (image courtesy of Library of Congress) is the first to label America and show it as a separate land mass. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/7/27/my-3-favorite-opening-questions-to-get-a-personal-history-interview-going monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1627427852652-IDVU3PTHKMLADM066AG3/oral-history-interview-microphone.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - My 3 favorite opening questions to get a personal history interview going - Make it stand out personal history interviews should always be recorded and transcribed later https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-july-27-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1625777247775-RH6C19MO7DXEP9KENIIQ/cowboys-nypl.digitalcollections.510d47da-88cd-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 27, 2021 Vintage postcard, “Two of a Kind” (1898 - 1931), courtesy The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/7/22/two-things-no-one-tells-you-about-writing-your-own-story monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1626964608507-O9WP5XUL1HO5CTCITY2Y/journal-page-photo-strip-bookmark.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Two things no one tells you about writing your own story - Make it stand out Writing your own story can be hard—but it’s so worth it, in the end. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/6/12/how-to-create-a-life-timeline-for-your-memoir-writing-project monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1623197397117-MIULKFLC8QR64CMJ6OMI/clock-journal-writing-a-life-timeline.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a life timeline for your memoir writing project - Make it stand out Writing a life timeline is a helpful first step in identifying topics to write about in your memoir and keeping you on track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1623791093477-96N7JLK946U52Y4POG4H/list.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a life timeline for your memoir writing project - Make it stand out A list of milestones is a great place to start for your life timeline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1623791251525-6E14S13YMI1MJJGPW7RO/star.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a life timeline for your memoir writing project - Make it stand out Designating key moments for your life is important for creating a visual timeline of your life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1623791200179-CNMCA0TZRZ751SBAAWCY/calendar.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to create a life timeline for your memoir writing project - Make it stand out Adding dates to your life timeline provides context and important genealogical information. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-july-6-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1624546131763-VIELFFFJUCIUD863RW2W/Fosters-Freeze-Vintage-Sign.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 6, 2021 Foster’s Freeze ice cream stand in Cloverdale, California, photographed by John Margolies, 1991, part of his Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/6/28/nuances-of-memory-and-how-understanding-a-bit-of-neuroscience-can-help-us-remember monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1622738274599-FXJRMLZZ55TQEIN3S039/old-photo-sparking-memory-in-brain.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Nuances of memory—and how understanding a bit of neuroscience can help us remember - Make it stand out Lisa Genova explains in her new book, Remember, that memory is a “constellation of connected, linked neurons that can be located all over you brain.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1623078778389-L6GJJ4WT3PKK27K6X1TH/lightbulb-memories.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Nuances of memory—and how understanding a bit of neuroscience can help us remember - Make it stand out There are plenty of resources for helping you remember on the Modern Heirloom Books website. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-22-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1623084330000-QXF095803KMU606OKVU6/summer-life-magazine.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 22, 2021 Vintage photo for LIFE magazine; uncredited. © Time. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/6/7/the-alchemy-of-story-sharing monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1622054173066-SFXZXBFAXEVY5WWJDA21/friends-having-joyful-conversation-bw.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The alchemy of story sharing: It takes two - Make it stand out A story shared between friends is a precious thing. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-june-7-2121 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1621970175050-O8UJPL57A8VKPYHTC8UR/new-jersey-beach-carol-highsmith.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 8, 2021 1917 photograph of lifeguards on the beach in Long Beach, New Jersey, by M. Highsmith, part of her America Project; courtesy of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/5/24/dear-tim-ferriss-have-you-interviewed-your-parents monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1621883434973-SPXXBMDSD7VTBCXCAMK3/do-it-now-billboard-for-tim-ferriss-small+copy.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Dear Tim Ferriss: A letter of thanks &amp; entreaty - Make it stand out If I could get a message to Tim Ferriss I would say: “Interview your parents. Do it now. Do it right fucking now.” https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-25-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1620751808234-A9V38JPU5PEPFIBT2BF8/brooklyn-bridge-postcard-nypl.digitalcollections.510d47e2-8c0f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 25, 2021 Vintage postcard, circa 1915, depicting the Brooklyn Bridge and New York skyline, courtesy of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/5/3/printing-a-family-photo-book-dont-do-this-to-your-digital-photos-please monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1620058115439-Y03KTS83BLK14EYXIQ6D/swimmers-smaller-image.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Printing a family photo book? Don’t do THIS to your digital photos, please. When scanning an image for use in a printed memory book, it is best to scan your original at 300 ppi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1620057359345-68SXXR9CWHRLCD5BT1RL/dialogue-box-for-resampling.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Printing a family photo book? Don’t do THIS to your digital photos, please. This is an example of a fairly SMALL image that will NOT print well. You can see that at 72 pixels per inch (which is the optimal resolution for displaying on a computer screen, but not for printing) the image would be approximately 12x7 inches. In this Photoshop dialogue box, the option to resample is checked; if you were to increase resolution to 300 ppi here, the resampling would “fill in” pixels to theoretically increase the image’s resolution, but it will do so poorly—see a comparison below of how the image would look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1620057614241-R1Z6A1SBE9N28YDLPLLH/resampled-image-with-halos.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Printing a family photo book? Don’t do THIS to your digital photos, please. SMALL TO LARGE FILE SIZE: This is what the image looks like when we attempt to increase its resolution through resampling, as in the dialogue box above. As you can see, detail is poor, and there is a halo effect throughout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1620057634314-WXOVPGIGRY66POJY1MAN/naturally-300-dpi.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Printing a family photo book? Don’t do THIS to your digital photos, please. LARGE FILE SIZE TO START: This is what the image looks like when it is scanned at a resolution of 300 ppi instead of the 72 shown above. As you can see, a higher-quality scan yields a higher-quality digital original that WILL print beautifully. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-may-11-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1619531576444-PU5BSCI2DIT41SVXKQI3/vintage-hostess-cupcakes-sign.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 11, 2021 Yes, today is Hostess Cupcake Day here in the United States! Rather than indulging in the sugary treat, let’s celebrate with a vintage advertisement, shall we? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/5/3/how-to-optimize-digital-photos-for-print monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1618338770441-VO9WNTL8ZPY9YNXA2528/example-of-photo-pulled-from-facebook.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Why the $#%&amp;* are my pictures so small?!” While it may seem convenient, pulling an image from a social media platform such as Facebook is NOT ideal for printing. These sites immediately strip away pixels from images upon upload, so you’ll need to find your original digital file if you want it to print with a high quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1619100388750-XVR9UM69HBAYQBBVTDE0/resolution-settings-on-canon-camera.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Why the $#%&amp;* are my pictures so small?!” Every camera manufacturer displays resolution settings differently. Here is an example of choices on a Canon DSLR. If you’re photographing for print, use either the large setting (L, which translates to a 5184 x 3456 JPEG image of 18MP) or the RAW one (which has the same pixel dimensions and file size, but is not compressed like the JPEG). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1618511904128-FLHB4R4MAXNTQVGEY08X/email-attachment-image.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Why the $#%&amp;* are my pictures so small?!” When you email a photo from your phone to another person, you have the option of choosing if you want to “reduce message size by scaling the image.” Doing so is one way images get degraded and end up needing to print at small sizes. For optimal print results, choose “actual size” when sending an image. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-april-27-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1618332147116-U5YJODEO4NMPDZLOV2A1/mother-reading-to-her-son.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 27, 2021 Today, April 27, is National Tell a Story Day. This vintage photograph by Russell Lee shows the wife of a Farm Security Administration client reading to her son, April 1939. Image courtesy Library of Congress Digital Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1619017913504-UO7VJ0M1YU5MMRGKM7ZX/grandmother-was-spy-podcast.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 27, 2021 Click the image for a 3-minute video about Enid Zentelis’s mission to learn the truth about her late grandmother, a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor—and a spy. “I wondered how I could serve my grandmother’s story, and simultaneously communicate the effects of generational trauma; the way some family members succumb to it, and the way others turned it into a source of strength and determination,” Zentelis says. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/4/19/which-is-your-reason-for-not-sharing-your-stories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1616437001754-CGGIGXHOSL7J37JS0CZU/reasons-not-to-write-memoir.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why, exactly, are you not telling your stories? I hear lots of reasons for not writing about oneself. Do any of these sound familiar? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1616435659397-X90NN8PHAV4UAKQWY170/life-is-boring-excuse.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why, exactly, are you not telling your stories? Nobody’s life is boring—all one has to do is ask the right questions to elicit interesting stories! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1616435684184-HVGA5EIOKQJX4DOBWVJ1/not-enough-money-excuse3.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why, exactly, are you not telling your stories? Is writing an autobiography self-centered? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1616435765430-N83S1KQ5KF9TD08IN67D/not-enough-money-excuse4.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why, exactly, are you not telling your stories? There are ways you can tell your life stories that don’t require a full-time commitment to writing your memoir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1616435925309-T9DBWURQAIDSSE5WCHTC/not-enough-money-excuse.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why, exactly, are you not telling your stories? Why does it cost so much to have a personal historian write my book? you may be wondering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1616436041043-QBUSXRJEY86HJN5FXUK5/not-enough-money-excuse2.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why, exactly, are you not telling your stories? Your kids may take you for granted now, but someday they will cherish stories of your life before parenthood. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-april-13-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1618331995769-LLHOFB90AAD2OUH5P879/spring-vintage-postcard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 13, 2021 Vintage postcard. Happy spring! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/4/5/curious-about-your-parents-lives-get-your-kids-to-interview-them monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614791497096-VI91TTDBSTALGJ58J2IS/young-boy-interviewing-grandparents-via-zoom.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Curious about your parents’ lives? Get your kids to interview them. Kids age seven and older can conduct meaningful family history interviews with their grandparents—even from a distance over Zoom or other teleconferencing software. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614792300719-PCUBT2Y5PDUKTVKN4FMQ/young-girl-interviewing-her-grandmother.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Curious about your parents’ lives? Get your kids to interview them. Looking at photos, whether in an old family album or on a device, is a great way to prompt memories and get the stories flowing from grandparent to grandchild (and vice versa!). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1591900681232-IRD31ZOQVM8GSKX9E4K9/Graphics+for+Kid+Kit+New+-+1+FB+Ad.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Curious about your parents’ lives? Get your kids to interview them. - FREE RESOURCE: Questions, Activities & More Get your kids talking—really talking—to your parents. They’ll get stories even YOU’VE never heard! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-30-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1615999952833-CZBMFMHAI5SXDRVIE054/smoking-lady-triptych.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 30, 2021 On this day in 2003, a law banning smoking in NYC restaurants and bars went into effect (and as a then–New Yorker, I was one of the seemingly few who were happy about it at the time!). Vintage photo of woman smoking in front of the Fifth Avenue entrance to the New York Public Library, 1954, by Angela Rizzuto, courtesy of the Anthony Angel Collection, Library of Congress Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/3/22/i-wish-i-had-asked-my-mom-that-amp-other-heartbreaking-regrets-you-can-avoid monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614195191220-5KTHJL24GW6HIS1J1SK0/woman-hugging-her-father-after-family-history-interview.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “I wish I had asked my mom that” and other heartbreaking regrets YOU can avoid Ask your parents to share stories from their life—not only will you have the security in knowing their legacy is preserved (no regrets of unasked questions!), but you’ll undoubtedly gain some laughs and lessons along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614195591232-R3MIK31UGOFBBWDO4X17/family-history-questions-for-parents-guide.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “I wish I had asked my mom that” and other heartbreaking regrets YOU can avoid - Free Guide: 56 Questions to Interview Your Parents Modern Heirloom Books offers plenty of free family history resources to help you interview your parents and capture their stories for posterity, including this guide, “56 Essential Family History Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It’s Too Late.” Click the button below to access it right now! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-16-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614796740920-336HST3P5DI6IFZWHKLQ/1963-vintage-photo-mom.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 16, 2021 Today would have been my mom’s 74th birthday, so in her honor I am sharing a vintage photo from her teen years—in curlers, on hammock, jokingly giving a drag of her ever-present cigarette to…a youngster. (Yup, I wish I could ask her who all the players in this picture are.) https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/3/8/meaningful-questions-when-your-loved-one-is-on-hospice monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1612970939894-F7GJAUDFQ101YW6KJ4IO/caregiver-holding-hands-with-hospice-patient-in-bed The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Meaningful conversation when your loved one is on hospice—here’s help What do you say to your loved one who has gone on hospice? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-mar-2-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1613683209462-8KD4E9FF2MNWYCUGHEZL/nurse-nypl.digitalcollections.5e66b3e8-b2d2-d471-e040-e00a180654d7.001.w.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 2, 2021 Vintage photograph of nurse feeding a baby, taken between 1935-1945, courtesy of the Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/2/28/most-helpful-blog-posts-for-memory-keepers-memoirists-amp-family-historians monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614531170210-QCAPAIUED3HMJ9AV2ZK4/memory-keeping-resources.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most helpful blog posts for memory keepers, memoirists, and family historians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614390011917-ZF70PA4EA6OVZXM1ZZRQ/writing-about-your-life.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most helpful blog posts for memory keepers, memoirists, and family historians The best articles on he Modern Heirloom Books site to help you write your memoir or life story book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614381485562-4ZO1JRKP11UU5TDOXT5X/how-to-capture-family-stories.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most helpful blog posts for memory keepers, memoirists, and family historians These are the best articles on the Modern Heirloom Books website to help you find ways to capture your family stories for the next generation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614381705355-2LPQ9ZDZU37PA9E6P0TK/how-to-save-family-photos.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most helpful blog posts for memory keepers, memoirists, and family historians These are the best articles on the Modern Heirloom Books website about photo preservation and organizing your family photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614391012049-WMBLXZ077M9AEBXYFYSX/grieving-a-lost-loved-one.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most helpful blog posts for memory keepers, memoirists, and family historians The best articles on the Modern Heirloom Books website to help you honor a lost loved one’s memory in a tribute book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614390175904-I524N0M5BETDOQOHWE7Z/heirloom-book-ideas-2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most helpful blog posts for memory keepers, memoirists, and family historians The best articles on the Modern Heirloom Book website with unique ideas for family heirloom books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1614391627654-GUSJ88FKTAV5PE42MLK0/why-your-stories-matter.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most helpful blog posts for memory keepers, memoirists, and family historians The best articles on the Modern Heirloom Books website to help you understand that your stories are worth preserving. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/2/22/storytelling-isnt-just-good-for-the-soulits-good-for-your-health-too monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1612475070113-HRKU281HJY2O9RQ9M47K/storytelling-is-good-for-your-health.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Storytelling isn’t just good for the soul—it’s good for your health, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1612474389667-L74U35PYLKLL6XTTC574/storytelling-listen-to-stories-build-empathy.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Storytelling isn’t just good for the soul—it’s good for your health, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1612474461469-XT6AP4RAV9CEZO3EDT8P/storytelling-journal-writing.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Storytelling isn’t just good for the soul—it’s good for your health, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1612474601461-E5SKYD385TST8H2O4W4W/storytelling-invite-family-history-stories.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Storytelling isn’t just good for the soul—it’s good for your health, too. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-16-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1612283098931-UFO9J4ZONU3E4294V46B/vintage-valentine-birds-postcard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 16, 2021 Vintage Valentine’s Day postcard with early 20th-century illustration https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/1/13/the-little-book-that-every-aspiring-memoirist-should-read monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1610635835608-IDK4RL5HXNCXCTDYMCTN/i-remember-by-joe-brainard-book-for-writers-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The little book that every aspiring memoirist should read The little book that could: I Remember by Joe Brainard is a cult classic and a favorite of aspiring memoirists and memory keepers. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-feb-2-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1611074062957-9FWTPPH0YQIXC9OTAFJM/children-playing-in-snow-library-of-congress.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 2, 2021 Children on sleds in Central Park in New York City, circa 1915, photograph by Bain News Service, courtesy Library of Congress Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/1/25/when-was-your-first-kiss-amp-other-fun-questions-to-ask-mom-and-dad monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1609981534713-AH3D5ZBLPPWQPF27C3RN/old-photo-first-kiss.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “When was your first kiss?” &amp; other fun questions to ask Mom and Dad vintage photo of little kids kissing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1609981961467-71GEI40PXQ0UENP6O35L/essential-family-history-questions-guide-download.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “When was your first kiss?” &amp; other fun questions to ask Mom and Dad - Get your free guide of Essential Family History questions All the questions (not just the funny ones!) to ask your parents to capture their stories, presented in a beautiful printable guide https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-jan-19-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1610038474302-ZS5D6JZWE6YS9HZL1YLE/snow-in-miami-personal-snapshot.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 19, 2021 On this day in history: Snow fell for the first time in Miami on January 19, 1977 (though for the most part the flakes melted when they hit the ground). https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2021/1/11/just-imagine-your-family-photos-in-your-kids-trash monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1609967510633-T5LSUNISHK3JJPD4DQUN/digital-photos-in-garbage.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Think YOUR KIDS would never throw away your cherished photos? I wouldn’t be so sure... I know you didn’t snap all those family pictures just for them to end up in the trash…did you? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1609967707751-8GF328WTDUD93PNJMSTE/physical-family-photos-in-garbage.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Think YOUR KIDS would never throw away your cherished photos? I wouldn’t be so sure... What can you do to ensure that your kids don’t throw away your whole family history collection when you die? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-jan-5-2021 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1608672183720-I6KA9WATTCEDFFYYW7K5/lou-gehrig-babe-ruth-tony-lazzaeri-yankees.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 5, 2020 On this day in 1920, the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 in what would come to be known as the Curse of the Bambino. Pictured above: Lou Gehrig, George Herman [Babe] Ruth and Tony Lazzeri in a 1927 photograph by Underwood & Underwood, courtesy The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/12/28/have-you-ever-considered-making-a-family-website monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1603825761906-C5WUIKFPEL9K3Y018KW7/hands-creating-family-website.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “What’s the best way to share my family photos &amp; stories online?” Consider letting the whole family, from kids to grandparents, contribute to making your new family website. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-dec-22-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1607635528728-6NJZVD4BTKAP0K3LW0GH/Oscar-Fabres-Vintage-Christmas-Card.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: December 22, 2020 A whimsical vintage Christmas card, created between 1950–1963, by Oscar Fabres, a Chilean illustrator who studied art in Paris and settled in New York in 1940, courtesy of the New-York Historical Society. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/12/14/holiday-memories-yours-and-mine monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1607010043107-UMTVZ9HF72B3ZPT1O9PF/holiday-memories-can-sometimes-be-hard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Who (or what) are you missing this holiday season? The 2020 Christmas and Hanukkah season will be anything but normal—but one constant is that stories are always welcome! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-dec-8-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1606254048207-9VJBNZLOBES8KCEHO1DG/bubble-gum-kids.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: December 8, 2020 Bubble gum kids series of photographs by Cornell Capa for LIFE magazine, January 1947. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/11/17/want-your-parents-stories-ive-got-3-ways-to-help-get-them monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605649241922-PV04K0A3RLVBFFHN0NXH/grandmother-and-grandchild-bw-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Want your parents’ stories? Here are 3 easy ways to help get them. Don’t wait until it’s too late to capture your parents’ stories—your kids (and YOU!) will be grateful to have them one day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1591900681232-IRD31ZOQVM8GSKX9E4K9/Graphics+for+Kid+Kit+New+-+1+FB+Ad.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Want your parents’ stories? Here are 3 easy ways to help get them. The Kid Kit is a free offering from Modern Heirloom Books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605565869801-Q58DN3T7SPP8T4SXPPDX/write-your-life-course-blog-image.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Want your parents’ stories? Here are 3 easy ways to help get them. Write Your Life courses from Modern Heirloom Books provide writing prompts and memory cues for easy family history preservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1576025547046-P7VB0GHHOLW1UVJXENLE/DEAR_DAUGHTER_0026.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Want your parents’ stories? Here are 3 easy ways to help get them. Personal historian Dawn Roode interviews clients to capture their stories for an heirloom book. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-24-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605285799827-W3P0FYEZZ41L4RJD781K/vintage-thanksgiving-turkey-postcard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 24, 2020 On this vintage postcard, a parrot says to the turkey: “I would rather spend my life behind the bars than lose my head upon the block.” Courtesy New-York Historical Society, 1907. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-nov-13-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1603895730328-808OSI8VUM8PLW1C5BJX/lobby-card-scene-segment-Fantasia-The-Sorcerers.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 13, 2020 On this day in 1940, Disney’s animated classic Fantasia was released. This lobby card features a scene from the “The Sorcerer's Apprentice” segment in the film (and, of course, features one of my very favorite things—a book). © The Walt Disney Company https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/11/02/announcing-group-gifting-option-for-tribute-books monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1603727223857-8QBZLO10DYXXE27YJY17/web-sized-group-gift-wrapped-present-with-gift-tag.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Announcing group gifting option for tribute books A new offering from Modern Heirloom Books is group gifting, allowing all contributors to chip in towards a most unique surprise gift: a tribute book honoring someone you love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1602788050201-J54PLNB99BIS1VLMJ9UA/birthday-tribute-book-ann-spread3.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Announcing group gifting option for tribute books a tribute book created as a surprise gift for her 60th birthday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1602788312752-BLIYL3DBBB3AV81D0DRG/digital-guide-to-writing-best-heartfelt-birthday-tributes.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Announcing group gifting option for tribute books - Free Guide: How to Create Heartfelt Birthday Tributes Jam-packed with tips to help you plan, manage, and finish your birthday tribute book project! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-27-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1602695553808-YZF5FGIF6QT47QSCZDSB/vintage-halloween-witch+-postcard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 27, 2020 Vintage “Jolly Hallowe’en” postcard, courtesy The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/10/19/way-more-than-a-photo-book-the-ultimate-gift-for-someone-you-love monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1602119253488-B8GQZTDUNRG52DDGYNY6/reasons-we-love-you-book-cover-web-sized.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Way more than a photo book—the ultimate gift for someone you love Create a book as a surprise gift for someone you love: Top 20 Reasons We Love You. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1602119812448-2715IL9C8E1L5EESNVOX/always-remember-title-spread-web-sized.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Way more than a photo book—the ultimate gift for someone you love What are your favorite memories from the past year? The funny moments, big milestones, and vacation memories should all make it into a photo book of your year’s highlights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1602433323068-B3H22ZSRVNXQ7RTTJT0R/a-tribute-to-mom-book-cover-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Way more than a photo book—the ultimate gift for someone you love Create a tribute book for someone you love now—for no reason other than, simply, because you love them. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-oct-13-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1601407076396-QCWGJ6SD862XJRDPB0SB/vintage-postcard-forest-ave-nyc-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 13, 2020 Vintage postcard (1907-1918) depicting Forest Avenue in the Bronx, New York, courtesy The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collection. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/10/5/reflections-on-a-most-unusual-thanksgiving monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1600700841213-XF3ZC9X7KM9EU8JPRXTG/small-thanksgiving-dinner-during-covid.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Thanksgiving 2020: A most unusual time to celebrate How will your Thanksgiving celebration be impacted by the pandemic—will you have a smaller get-together, forgo travel, or connect virtually? I hope that however you observe the holiday this year, that you are able to feel real gratitude and find connection with loved ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1600361318544-1NSIVQIU8PTPT3T7VK0N/thanksgiving-questions-ipad.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Thanksgiving 2020: A most unusual time to celebrate - Remembering Thanksgivings Past Use this list of 55 questions as writing prompts or to interview a loved one about their holiday memories. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-29-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1600198771789-J3TYZQ5TVBMQFZKFN0DP/autumn-vintage-postcard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 29, 2020 Vintage postcard of “A Northern Autumn, Birch Drive” (originally issued by Detroit Publishing Company, 1898 - 1931), courtesy The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/9/3/38-questions-to-prompt-food-memories monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1599162675549-0CUBBXFPN8AMB4NLY1J9/young-girl-baking-with-mother.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 38 questions to prompt food memories Modern Heirloom Books offers this free downloadable guide entitled “A Taste of the Past: Preserving Your Food Memories,” which includes tips as well as 38 oral history questions to prompt food memories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1599161685619-EIX9T8OERTJ5D9G6W7X3/food-memories-download-ipad-lemons.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 38 questions to prompt food memories - Free Guide: Preserving Your Food Memories Download this free printable guide that include all the family history questions in this post as well as bonus tips for preserving your family food heritage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469891111991-9N60R2642I2UA1J1FCG4/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 38 questions to prompt food memories - Read more about preserving your food memories https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-sept-15-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1598972265429-3JDSXDBQT0F9DCSZ0HWF/birmingham-baptist-church.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 15, 2020 On this day 57 years ago, September 15, 1963, four young Black girls were murdered as they prepared for their Sunday School lesson at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in a bombing by the Ku Klux Klan. This photograph shows Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby—workers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—outside the funeral of the girls, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Collins, and Cynthia Wesley. Photograph by Danny Lyons, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/9/7/4-steps-to-begin-preserving-your-food-memories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1599157966039-NZU2SWH252NGXFB5IL2R/1-family-cookbook.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 steps to begin preserving your food memories A cookbook personalized just for your family could include a mix of recipes, stories, and images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1599150082794-PMDOP6H7R8WJZ5N2RGZQ/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 steps to begin preserving your food memories While some of your recipes may be handwritten on recipe cards, others may be scattered; look within the pages of cookbooks, in your siblings’ collections, and on your computer and phone apps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1599150008808-5POHSH4GCSC7N05WJNPI/3-gather-photos-of-food-memories-for-family-cookbook.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 steps to begin preserving your food memories Photos—especially those taken in your home kitchen—help bring stories in a family cookbook to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1599149885487-979XR23ZNOWLBMX9KKHJ/4-get-together-to-reminisce-about-food-memories.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 steps to begin preserving your food memories Gathering together around the dinner table (and your favorite family foods, of course!) is a great way to share memories to include in your heritage cookbook. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-august-31-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1597252522848-7MF5INZNLBSTONC7NV26/1913-schoolhouse-with-kids-vintage-photo.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 31, 2020 Ah, if only the back-to-school season were as carefree as past years… Kids in an unidentified school circa 1913. Photograph by William Davis Hassler, printed from original glass plate negative, courtesy New-York Historical Society, New York Heritage Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/10/28/dont-call-it-a-memoir-just-write-your-life monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572286806429-SENI0D6XCE40EXBK9WSA/dawn-typing-at-computer.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t call it a memoir. Just write your life. just sit and write—small steps toward writing your memoir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1580412639975-ZRREI9ZSH8XXI7ZH3AGG/memories-of-my-granfather-magazine-spread.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t call it a memoir. Just write your life. - How to plan a life story book in 3 simple steps https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/8/6/podcast-recommendation-the-storied-recipe monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1596733392136-Z13EKYVV2NGKQ70UYB8L/the-storied-recipe-opener.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories through the vessel of cherished food memories” On The Storied Recipe podcast host Becky Hadeed, pictured, invites guests to share their stories through the vessel of cherished food memories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1596727590115-XL70OML14GNZBYTK2IOQ/root-beer-float-and-silver-spoons-from-becky-hadeed.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories through the vessel of cherished food memories” The silver spoons Becky inherited from her grandmother and a couple of root beer floats were the subject of some of Becky”s earliest food photography. “They were delicious and made me happy,” she says of the treats her grandmother made for her as a child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1596724176303-IPGMTWQK7647X9L8P6EX/German-Cold-Dog-Cake-1026.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories through the vessel of cherished food memories” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1596725116222-YR73TORRETVR3QX8FZS4/Christmas-Puddings-1059.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories through the vessel of cherished food memories” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1596724639655-N4FEP0ZRWBUQJQPR063T/Ukranian-Varynyky-Pierogis-1024.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories through the vessel of cherished food memories” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1596726856976-D7EOD7PINGH7D6WW09H8/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories through the vessel of cherished food memories” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1596727101839-PY9BQ8PJTQSA0RDI5EZM/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories through the vessel of cherished food memories” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1596730726666-0XZNMR3I4CDT9O52PWGF/image-asset.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories through the vessel of cherished food memories” https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-aug-11-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1595948764654-SNIDJKSYE86OIOBMVBAD/postman-nypl.digitalcollections.510d47d9-a8cf-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 11, 2020 Postman, 1896. Photograph courtesy The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/7/29/review-life-is-in-the-transitions-bruce-feiler monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1595604499719-QJH6WO70P04WY3SY9NLY/life-is-in-the-transitions-book-by-bruce-feiler.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Book recommendation: “Life Is in the Transitions,” by Bruce Feiler Bruce Feiler’s new book, Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age, was released July 14, 2020 from Penguin Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1595604435907-CQD280CXM2GM066KTUGD/handwritten-bruce-feiler-quote.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Book recommendation: “Life Is in the Transitions,” by Bruce Feiler “Transitions are autobiographical occasions,” Bruce Feiler writes in Life Is in the Transitions. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-july-28-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1594744144432-Y4HVXHVGHI7T1NPWKBBG/national-negro-league-1935-champions-via-nypl-digital-collection.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 28, 2020 With professional baseball’s opening day pushed back from March 26 to July 23, our national pastime is getting a late start this year due to Covid-19. This vintage photo celebrates the Negro National League Champions of 1935, the Pittsburgh Crawfords. Photograph courtesy Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1595432346644-MTYKQITL9S59A78F3IZA/lorraine-toussaint-in-the-public-theater-the-line.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 28, 2020 Lorraine Toussaint in The Line, available to view free on The Public Theater’s YouTube channel through August 4. Actors speak directly to the camera using words captured from interviews with real-life first responders to powerful effect. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/7/13/narrowing-down-themes-for-your-life-story-book monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1594155128368-8OG01C5CGOJHT2DPY3CN/jump-around-in-time-in-your-memoir-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Jump around! Jump around! Has the path of your life been one straight line? Yeah, didn’t think so—so why not jump around in time in your memoir for a more compelling read? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-july-14-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1593556343635-9NMV44E6F24EI6FCRTXK/Herbster-youngsters.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: July 14, 2020 Board games play a starring role in many of our Covid diaries. This vintage photo shows the Herbster youngsters in Elizabeth, New Jersey, circa 1941. Photograph courtesy United States Office for Emergency Management, courtesy Library of Congress. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/7/6/family-history-interviews-connect-generations-during-covid monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1591901127402-17NTB5PAVPNCUY3X3K3H/grandmother-on-cell-phone-with-headphones-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Young and old, together at last Whether separated by Covid or simply distant living arrangements, grandparents and their precious grandkids can still connect meaningfully using screens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1592858987512-DMBNJFCJZM1JMRYBDAOX/older-boy-with-grandparents.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Young and old, together at last https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1588271590400-OPLLSZ6MBZBO2WPZV61G/Graphics+for+Kid+Kit+New+-+1+FB+Ad.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Young and old, together at last - FREE RESOURCE: Questions, Activities & More Get your kids talking—really talking—to your parents. They’ll get stories even YOU’VE never heard! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/family-history-curated-reading-list-june-20-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1592404380973-HIR7KZ5B8NZHU6DSA3U5/beach-scene-nypl.digitalcollections.510d47d9-c06d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 30, 2020 Vintage postcard of a beach scene of the past (social distancing was clearly not SOP of the day!). “Beach Scene Along Woodland Beach, Staten Island, N.Y.” Courtesy Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/6/22/how-to-organize-your-family-archive-as-a-resource-for-your-life-story-book monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1589309122544-TEUFIJ2A4WXOFKHPB79T/sorting-through-family-archive.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Hey, memories! Come out of the closet, will you? Sorting through your family archive for items for your life story book should be more strategic than organizing everything for posterity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1591649981877-5KINEFV80JCPEXLSBW2O/free-inventory-tool-download-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Hey, memories! Come out of the closet, will you? - Printable Inventory Form Download our free printable to help you keep track of all your life story project’s visual assets, from family photos to ticket stubs and journals—it’s easy-peasy. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-june-16-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1591289604308-4UTIF8TXNZV0P5TERTU4/we-march-with-selma-deomstration-in-nyc-1965.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 16, 2020 Civil rights marchers carrying banner reading “We March with Selma” lead the way as 15,000 parade in Harlem, March 1965. Photograph by Stanley Wolfson for World Telegram & Sun, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1592150566180-SU60FJWCIJBCYLORPE81/20200610_alexishunley_rs_covid-3349_custom-7f1fb303cae11df9ac7a06eac869a62b9df4cdd3-s2500-c85.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 16, 2020 Photograph by Alexis Hunley of a parent and child sharing a tender moment during a protest against police brutality in Los Angeles on June 6. NPR shares a series of impactful photographs from eight black photographers along with commentary on their experiences. (Click photo or link above to read full story.) https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/6/8/how-to-plan-a-life-story-book-in-3-simple-steps monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1589307386758-MJ14EI5O9TUL151TDK88/life-story-book-sample%3Dspread-primo.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to plan a life story book in 3 simple steps A life story book is a big undertaking. Starting with these three simple steps should help you streamline the project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605193075961-MVMZY5SGG92ET85FYEWQ/write-your-life-course-header-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to plan a life story book in 3 simple steps - Memory & writing prompts sent weekly to your phone Short courses for anyone who wants to write about their life https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-june-2-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1590178411865-KJOP38MKVMSIUI8DRUOH/returning-to-camp-nypl.digitalcollections.510d47d9-a6c8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: June 2, 2020 Returning to Camp after a day’s fishing, Maine. Photograph courtesy The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1898 - 1931). https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/5/25/why-a-tribute-book-for-their-milestone-birthday monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1592527728340-KROWE69BRPY5RWLW7HI7/grandmother-celebrating-70th-birthday-over-zoom.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your mom’s turning 70 and you STILL don’t know what to get her? Even if you can’t be together on her birthday (due to Covid or any other reason), family members can contribute from all over to create a tribute book honoring your mom on her milestone birthday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1589294123901-5VFU5A4CETECTI3TPNUB/IG-heart-and-soul-quote-on-page-spread-3.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your mom’s turning 70 and you STILL don’t know what to get her? What to get for the person who has everything? A beautiful bespoke tribute book, of course! This is a page from a recent book gifted to a woman on her 80th birthday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1589393181647-GBP9NU2QBGNE2XC2NPSR/dear-ann-80th-birthday-tribute-book-cover.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your mom’s turning 70 and you STILL don’t know what to get her? - “Ann was ecstatic and we all had to fight back tears… …watching her flip through the book. We all hope we can pass something of value on to family and friends. The tribute book did just that for her. She shows the book off to whoever comes in the house. You went far above and beyond anything that I could have ever imagined.” —Terry C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1589393447852-ZKQ3X4E8JZRVQKXWUZ7R/IG-linen-books-darker.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your mom’s turning 70 and you STILL don’t know what to get her? - “The process of sorting through 27 years of pictures… …and mementos was joyfully reflective, but what brought it all together was Dawn’s vision. Her warm and engaging personality and ability to capture my feelings—and transform them into such a beautiful book—well, let’s just say that our Modern Heirloom exceeded every expectation!” —Susan M. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-may-19-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1588955600099-FVOCDTJNAQA1YBFLB0OH/children-on-playground-1905.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 19, 2020 As the school year comes to a close, this year in our homes, I am missing the sounds and sight of kids running around the school yard—hence the choice of this week’s vintage photo: Girls on playground, Harriet Island, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1905. Photograph courtesy Detroit Publishing Co., Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/4/29/8-tips-for-creating-your-own-tribute-book-in-honor-of-a-lost-loved-one monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1588191689466-506W63C8VH6IDZYJQ05E/how-to-remember-a-family-member-who-died.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 8 tips for creating your own tribute book in honor of a lost loved one A tribute legacy book is the best way to preserve memories of a lost loved one after they have died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1588192688066-C7Z5Q8DEN4L6QPQR8M29/going-through-old-family-photosjpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 8 tips for creating your own tribute book in honor of a lost loved one Choose photos for a tribute legacy book so they add depth to the stories rather than distract from them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1588191568057-A7A9FA7KIEFCSF22SSXC/tribute-legacy-book-cover.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 8 tips for creating your own tribute book in honor of a lost loved one This leather-bound tribute legacy book was printed on archival paper and is traditionally bound with a sewn binding to last for generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1591821118794-N56Z7IS3OUA4WULE4XSI/after-death-35-questions-tribute.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 8 tips for creating your own tribute book in honor of a lost loved one - FREE: Questions to Help You Honor Them This printable list of 35 questions to ask to prompt memories of your lost loved one is a helpful tool, especially to have on hand when gathering with family. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-may-5-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1588092019197-SCDQJ7S9TNF391IIOPZX/cinco-de-mayo-panel-of-us-stamps.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: May 5, 2020 vintage stamps and other ephemera can be reminders of our past https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/4/27/lets-be-kind-to-ourselves monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1588009523097-CJC1ZAO6ELQMW7WP2ERZ/woman-in-nyc-window-during-coronavirus-pandemic.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Let’s be kind to ourselves It’s okay to step away from the news and allow ourselves time to process the pandemic. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-apr-21-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1586891985119-MYABI0KI51WUHRWLHDOW/flu-epidemic-1918.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 21, 2020 Front line workers were heroes during the flu epidemic of 1918, as they are now during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during influenza epidemic (1918). Original from Library of Congress; digitally enhanced by Rawpixel. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-apr-7-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1585674993814-088XDWU69SB3Y2E8FNVM/girl-on-telephone-vintage-photo The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 7, 2020 In this time of sheltering-in-place and extreme social distancing, maintaining connections by good old-fashioned telephone calls is one way to go. Photograph of American Telephone & Telegraph Exhibit at New York’s World Fair, 1939, courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/3/28/50-essential-questions-to-ask-your-parents-to-capture-your-family-history monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1585453188274-G60TX0P7MRYLPGTFIDFQ/family-history-questions-for-parents-guide.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 56 essential questions to ask your parents to capture their personal history https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/3/18/what-to-save-for-your-adoption-journey-book monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1584470024176-0X5JTK5KDS40HBOPHQOS/adopted-baby-eating-lunch The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What to save for your adoption journey book Including images in your adoption journey book of your child’s everyday moments during the early years (think eating, bath time, reading a book) will help to bring those experiences to life in the most amazing way. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-mar-17-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1583787432435-WS9UEJZGDWY8HTPAYA5E/vintage-st-patricks-day-shamrocks-postcard.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 17, 2020 Vintage St. Patrick’s Day postcard https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/3/9/i-wish-i-knew monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1583262286961-3FRDRM4D0U33BYRIO0XF/wall-street-journal-article-personal-history.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “I wish I knew” This recent article in The Wall Street Journal indicates that more and more families are realizing the value of preserving their stories. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-mar-3-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1582137143408-J2J01Q79FBY9BHQHXTXU/women%27s-suffrage-postcard-1914 The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 3, 2020 In honor of today’s Super Tuesday designation: Two women preparing a women’s suffrage poster for a parade in the nation’s capital in 1914, represented on a vintage postcard. Photo courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/2/23/experience-the-ultimate-family-history-conference-virtuall-rootstech monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1580145751072-7ZZFRSN8UINLI5WSVLL3/RootsTech-2019-overview.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Experience the ultimate family history conference virtually RootsTech family history conference appeals to life story writers, family historians, and genealogy fans worldwide. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-feb-18-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1581015352341-OEZL9N1UK72KOWYM90DE/vintage-valentine-card.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 18, 2020 Vintage valentine courtesy the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Love’s message.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1581016686000-61IEABUJZ7AGVIIVHLLC/image-asset.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 18, 2020 The difficult questions of dementia: How does a son tell his mother, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, about the death of her own husband? Listen to his recounting of the experience in the 10-minute short documentary “The Last Conversation.” Photograph courtesy “The Last Documentary,” The New Yorker Documentary series. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/2/10/a-gift-to-myself-on-my-50th-birthday-stories-heal monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1580765712782-KT89MTHEPV3OMHZEORD4/childhood-birthdays-triptych.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A gift to myself on my 50th birthday A look back at birthdays past… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1580765909198-JTZTFMZWGYMT3EDOYRJF/dawn-birthday-family-snapshot.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A gift to myself on my 50th birthday …and more recent ; ) I am grateful for my blessings on the eve of turning 50, and reflective on the past. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-feb-4-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1579796251799-U6QW851BIBVUFLYO6IMD/haverstraw-girls-by-gordon-parksjpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 4, 2020 Camp buddies, Christmas Seals Camp, Haverstraw, New York, January 1, 1943. Photograph by Gordon Parks, courtesy Library of Congress. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/1/27/4-easy-ways-to-find-your-way-into-life-story-writing monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572286171836-KXQPY5C2GDCE8ISKDRDK/journal-open-with-pen-horizontal.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 easy ways to find your way into life story writing writing in a journal is a productive way to begin life story writing that results in a emoir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1605193075961-MVMZY5SGG92ET85FYEWQ/write-your-life-course-header-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 easy ways to find your way into life story writing - Memory & writing prompts sent weekly to your phone Short courses for anyone who wants to write about their life—just $15 for 8 weeks of guidance & inspiration! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-jan-21-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1578514178579-VOCDOJAJ09AVOV02I2YR/luke-weldon.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 21, 2020 Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using an ancient Buick (transformed by cutting down the chassis) as an improvised tractor in New Bridgeton, New Jersey, 1936. The automobile was bought in a second-hand car lot for a cost of fifteen dollars. Photograph by Edwin Rosskam, courtesy Library of Congress.⁠ https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2020/01/13/the-most-important-unknown-story-of-the-holocaust monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1574367112580-FR2FXQANWR0IJYAMJX9Y/13.-Soup_Kitchen_Scene_AnnaWloch.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “The most important unknown story of the Holocaust” The feature documentary Who Will Write Our History blends archival and dramatic footage. “The thrust of the effort was to make the film as authentic as possible,” said filmmaker Roberta Grossman during a post-screening panel at the 92nd Street Y on November 19, 2019. “The overarching goal was to give the film the gravitas of documentary with great scholars like Sam [Kassow] and then to have the emotional pull of a dramatic feature.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1574367840799-8RVXKI4S88T231SQGSQ8/12.-Preparing_Papers_for_Burial_AnnaWloch.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “The most important unknown story of the Holocaust” The Oyneg Shabes “was one great act of accusation,” historian David Roskies says in the film. Photo by Anna Wloch, courtesy of Who Will Write Our History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1574377683061-Q3ZPXYVDIRD1GJZ0XMV3/oyneg-shabbas-metal-milk-jugs.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “The most important unknown story of the Holocaust” - “What we were unable to cry out and shriek to the world, we buried in the ground.” —David Graber, 19, last will and testament, Oyneg Shabes Photo of milk containers in which part of the Oyneg Shabes archive was hidden and discovered, Warsaw, Poland, courtesy the "Oneg Shabbat" Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1574370290320-OETOBPOUP9PO65Y6MX3G/18.-Weeping_of_Dead_Things_AnnaWloch.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “The most important unknown story of the Holocaust” - “Sometimes I worry that these terrible pictures of the life we are looking at every day will die with us, like pictures of a panic on a sinking ship. So, let the witness be our writing.” —Rachel Auerbach, diary, Oyneg Shabes Photo courtesy Who Will Write Our History, Abramorama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1574371089073-8MCQHWIKYM7030U5I6T7/jewish-refugees-soup-kitchen-warsaw-ghetto.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “The most important unknown story of the Holocaust” - “A wave of evil rolled over the whole city.” —Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, upon the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto in November 1940, Oyneg Shabes. Ringelblum understood that this was the most important story he would ever tell. Photo of Jewish refugees waiting in a soup line at a shelter at 33 Nalewki Street, Warsaw, Poland, courtesy Yad Vashem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1574381353770-Y5EVZIPN33SJRX2WW882/22.-Warsaw-Ghetto-Market-scene.-Photo-Credit_-Anna-Wloch.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “The most important unknown story of the Holocaust” - “The planet melts in tears, and I, I am hungry.” —Leyb Goldin, “Chronicle of a Single Day,” Oyneg Shabes Photo of Warsaw Ghetto market scene from Who Will Write Our History, by Anna Wloch, courtesy Abramorama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1574377632552-M6RVY1Q40XYJZD3DGKTQ/warsaw-poland-forced-labor.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “The most important unknown story of the Holocaust” - “If the world knows, why are they silent?” —refrain that haunted the Jews who were witness to the atrocities of the Holocaust, and one which resonates yet with regard to the global refugee crisis. Photo of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto being taken by German soldiers for forced labor, courtesy Yad Vashem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1574383937419-F9LK482NDRMAOA3SQD1M/Andrew-Bering-portrays-Israel-Lichtenstein-Preparing-First-Cache.-Photo-Credit_-Anna-Wloch.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “The most important unknown story of the Holocaust” - “I do not ask for any thanks, for any memorial, for any praise. I only wish to be remembered.” —Israel Lichtenstein, Oyneg Shabes Photo from the film Who Will Write Our History of actor Andrew Bering as Israel Lichtenstein preparing the first cache of the archive for burial, by Anna Wloch, courtesy Abramorama. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-jan-6-2020 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1576261627799-XJK8Q3HLDYOXAMIPZ8RT/1932_1039_Credit-Richard-Bridgland-1024x707.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 6, 2020 “My mother Hilary, aunts Kay and Peggie, and my grandmother Hilda. In those days people dressed up for outings!” wrote Richard Bridgland of this photograph taken at Stonehenge in 1932. Photo courtesy of Richard Bridgland/English Heritage. Read about an exhibition of family photos taken at the Stonehenge, below. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/12/30/new-years-resolutions-for-family-history-lovers monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1576779971533-G1NQRMG2VZR56O8H1KOZ/frame-phone-new-years.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Two New Year’s resolutions worth making—and keeping New Years resolutions for family history lovers https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/12/9/ghosts-of-christmases-past monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572905508609-MMVBR07G5RGEYK49V78U/moment-of-holiday-grief.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Ghosts of Christmases past the winter holidays can be a lonely time for those experiencing grief https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-dec-4-2019 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1574280575193-L5CLD8IJI62Q54CMV6S0/change-seasons-fall-to-winter.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: December 4, 2019 The changing of the seasons is a great time to reflect on the changes in your life, whether in a journal or through a personal history interview. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/11/2/most-unique-gifts-for-sentimental-loved-ones monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572722126625-1M4J7DBGM9VVZEL1PSYG/gate-style-silver-photo-locket The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5 most unique gifts for sentimental loved ones sterling silver photo locaket from Monica Rich Kosann Jewelry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572719928519-ZSL9FQP4I934WIP1T06Y/ceramic-dish-with-handwritten-recipe.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5 most unique gifts for sentimental loved ones custom ceramic pie dish from prairie hills pottery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572721297565-EIJ91GWI8XT9M7GBFZ3O/american-immigration-wall-ellis-island-detail.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5 most unique gifts for sentimental loved ones a detail of one panel from the American Immigrant Wall of Honor on Ellis Island https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572719721816-K65TRSQWZ4UHQAKCN9X0/family-recipe-cards.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5 most unique gifts for sentimental loved ones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572724654907-9VOYOCBW3IA0365CE919/sketchbook-spreads-from-the-brooklyn-art-library.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5 most unique gifts for sentimental loved ones sample spreads from The Sketchbook Project at the Brooklyn Art Library https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-nov-19-2019 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572966454107-SGRG1GPUR3PNUFHHAPY2/hightstown-homesteader-woman-at-kitchen-sink.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 19, 2019 In the kitchen, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1938. Photographed by Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. Photo courtesy Library of Congress. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/11/11/most-thoughtful-holiday-host-gift-family-recipe-card-set monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572623898189-DS0OKNVMY45AH8HF2RFZ/family-history-recipe-cards-set.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most thoughtful holiday host gift https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572624127077-E7WV1Q26HD7P4IJSFJGJ/family-recipe-cards-2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most thoughtful holiday host gift https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572624092177-2VKNJRNMGJ0GAWR5DHPC/family-history-recipe-card-set-modern-heirloom-books.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most thoughtful holiday host gift https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572624131966-K75K1XGLODRC6MVA7K85/recipe-for-remembering-card.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most thoughtful holiday host gift https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572624146950-FAY41S8TJ7W903M8S33S/a-taste-of-the-past-recipe-card.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Most thoughtful holiday host gift https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-nov-5-2019 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1571932250689-S9LPYYJ5H0Y86TXVYIEK/front-lawn-rcarl-mydans.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 5, 2019 Children playing on a front lawn in Washington, D.C., September 1935. Photographed by Carl Mydans, courtesy Office of War Information, Overseas Picture Division, via Library of Congress. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/10/30-ddifference-between-scrapbooks-and-personal-history monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572462149240-F8FRPLGSTMVEQMHEASB2/1950s-scrapbook-pages-with-report-card.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The spirit of scrapbooking, elevated A page from my mother’s amateur yet heartfelt scrapbook, including her school report cards from the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1572462811198-RA9X01X9NNYDZSN4LVQY/family-history-legacy-book-spread.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The spirit of scrapbooking, elevated Images and reproductions of mementos are used as design elements in personal history books, just as they are in scrapbooks, but the focus is on refined storytelling, and the final product is a professionally bound book designed to stand the test of time. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-oct-23-2019 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1571859578132-1P8R4ZM7Y0854T72GVOQ/Five+women.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 23, 2019 Photograph by Toni Frissell: Five Women, originally published in Vogue, August 1935, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/10/7/piercing-the-loneliness-epidemic-with-genuine-connection monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1570469572787-ZG2O2US80DFP5NRFNZYD/brian-grazer-ron-howard-in-conversation-92y.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Piercing the “loneliness epidemic” with genuine connection I had the pleasure of seeing Ron Howard (bottom right) interview longtime film producing partner Brian Grazer (bottom left) about his latest book, Face to Face, at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan last month. See a replay video here.. Read more about the book below. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-oct-8-2019 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1569942373199-RYF87JEMJWN8T4W3YULX/ellen-cantor-multiple-exposure-photography-childhood-book-series.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 8, 2019 Ellen Cantor’s “Prior Pleasures” series of double-exposure photographs (no Photoshop involved!) “explores memory and preservation of the past while ensuring the creation of a visual legacy for the next generation. The books photographed for this series are the ones I have carried with me since childhood,” she describes. Photograph by Ellen Cantor. Learn more in “Seeing Double” below. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/10/3/are-my-memories-of-my-mother-gone monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1570117311503-PNDS0U94IKTYI1VX1EN8/MommyKissJune71-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Are my memories of my mother gone? Me and my mom in the front yard of our Putnam Lake, New York, home, June 1971 https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-sept-24-2019 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1568294998527-J5AN7M1BVKHN44BNWR4T/vintage-photo-children-gathering-leaves.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 24, 2019 Boys gathering leaves, front lawn in Bradford, Vermont, October 1939. 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Southern Appalachian Project near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky, November 1940. 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Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 6 tips for choosing the best family photos to use as writing prompts a photo that invokes strong emotion like the joy from this one makes a better writing prompt than a photo that is boring or staged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1554251730180-ZT6PD9XLRB7VP233YPO6/breastfeeding-mother-in-sixties.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 6 tips for choosing the best family photos to use as writing prompts ask yourself if your family photo already tells a story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1554253124715-3964KI9CMB356A3HYK2P/middle-age-women-on-bench.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 6 tips for choosing the best family photos to use as writing prompts the details in any photo reveal clues to its story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1554250551101-6JLA7B8VGI80UBBD4ZKY/old-photo-of-grandfather-reading.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 6 tips for choosing the best family photos to use as writing prompts an old photo that shows our family’s everyday life is revealing for family history clues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1554253503293-PM019JRKDZRV5T6KOODF/family-scene-greece.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 6 tips for choosing the best family photos to use as writing prompts If an image intrigues you it is a good candidate for becoming a useful family history writing prompt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1554252508688-CO3J2JGSTL4ZJSNYEQSS/defaced-old-family-photo.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 6 tips for choosing the best family photos to use as writing prompts If an image is defaced or damaged, sometimes the story behind the images is as interesting as the story within. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-april-8-2019 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1553631929863-0GEW8TVL5Z9CZDNWC9M7/woman-against-tree-by-lisa-larson-1951.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: April 8, 2019 Wkkeken, Southern Weekend, August 1951. Photograph by Lisa Larson for LIFE magazine. ©Time Inc. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/4/1/not-at-rootstech-highlights monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1551991020293-EKMOJEXFR5HTNFEJ4TJF/amy-johnson-crow-at-rootstech.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Genealogists reveal why your stories matter Author and speaker Amy Johnson Crow presenting at RootsTech 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1551991169921-VKIW8GHEX3KWFLJTTE7P/curt-witcher-genealogist.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Genealogists reveal why your stories matter Genealogy expert Curt B. Witcher during his presentation at RootsTech 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1551990724064-G5XUBVZ6D56EC1G0FHNH/janet-hovorka-rootstech-2019.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Genealogists reveal why your stories matter Genealogy coach Janet Hovorka speaking at RootsTech 2019. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-mar-26-2019 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1552510650970-HDNIB6GW7APDKOOSS0KT/vita-sackville-west-1940.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 26, 2019 Writer Vita Sackville-West, a prolific diarist and letter writer, circa 1940 https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/3/18/latest-life-story-podcast-recommendations monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1552587602981-VO7E0Z7J5P36N12WQPEF/podcast-guests-madden-lickteig-kephart-.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 3 Must-listen podcast recommendations for life story lovers T Kira Madden, Steve Lickteig, Beth Kephart are recent podcast guests https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-mar-11-2019 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1551226265524-O5I1LYLS40JJRI7610LA/cemetery.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: March 11, 2019 genealogy research at cemetery https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/3/4/sharing-is-good monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1549565408386-PBPMGFPC45SCRX3OZQ7G/family-reminiscing-over-old-photos.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Sharing is good sharing family photos with other family member can help solve genealogy mysteries https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-feb-26 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1549986467601-NNN6MC8Q2YETIXUQJA04/toom-sisters.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 26, 2019 Toom Sisters, July 1957. Photograph by Al Fenn for LIFE magazine. ©Time Inc. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/2/19/sharing-your-full-adoption-story monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1491496331991-NCF0HJ2QP30KMALV079P/family-adoption-journey-book The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Should you share your full adoption story? chronicling a family adoption journey in a book should take into account the whole story, including joys and challenges https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-feb-12 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1549411319144-L376FL6W0JJ3G8264RTK/retired-man-with-family.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: February 12, 2019 Retired man with family, 1959. Photograph by Stan Wayman for LIFE magazine. ©Time Inc. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/1/29/experience-rootstech-2019-from-the-comfort-of-home monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1548781478561-BR9DQUMGA1IQMIT891XY/rootstech-scene.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Experience RootsTech 2019 from the Comfort of Home RootsTech 2019 takes place in Salt Lake City, February 27–March 2, 2019—but if you can’t make it to Utah, you can experience much of the family history conference virtually. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-jan-29 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1548349078209-W9OI16SIFM2Q9AF03I6K/eric-brunt-oral-history-project.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: January 29, 2019 “Very few of these veterans have ever been filmed before,” says documentarian Eric Brunt. “Many have not even shared their experiences with their families.” Learn more about his oral history project, Last Ones Standing, below. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/conjuring-epiphanies monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1533337515642-B7U7HQXY6IYSFWLS6UQW/life-stories-are-not-always-biographies-in-personal-history-book.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Conjuring epiphanies https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/digital-story-sharing-reviews monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1538063253381-GZTNDQPENUO6GDZZO7WX/older-couple-sharing-stories-on-computer.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Is digital story sharing for you? digital story sharing can be a great option for people who are not writers who care about preserving memories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1538062472533-IR4DDODUKDU17Z2EI5XT/family-search-memories-app-ipad.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Is digital story sharing for you? The Family Search Memories app displays stories in a gallery view, as shown, or in a list view to make finding specific entries easier. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2019/1/11/6-heirloom-book-ideas monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1547223651624-6MPC3AJKSH4MXNR40Q16/life-story-book-greece.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5 Heirloom book ideas An heirloom book capturing the memories of one woman’s years spent in Greece, and her decision to return stateside with her newborn daughter. Remember—you don’t have to tell your whole life story. Pick a transformative experience from your life and tell that one story well! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/75-questions-to-spark-christmas-story-sharing monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1544730074376-M7TTR5ER0N4PCUQ0ZEU5/family-sharing-stories-over-christmas-dinner The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 75 Questions to spark Christmas story sharing When family gathers at Christmas, use the opportunity to share stories and memories of days gone by—trust me, it’s as entertaining as it is valuable! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1544735160481-RSC0HOI141Q24AA65G65/4Christmas-Download-on-Computer.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 75 Questions to spark Christmas story sharing - Free Christmas Questions Guide Download all 75 questions in a handy printable booklet! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1545067681709-IIKDCDCO3KRM4S41SGKF/most-unique-christmas-gift-for-mom The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 75 Questions to spark Christmas story sharing - Give the most unique holiday gift! Cherished memories last a lifetime—and beyond, if you preserve them. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-dec-11 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1544543837424-Z0E7L25DPBF9PCKA7O5I/first-grade-twins-on-swings.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: December 11, 2018 1st Grade Twins on Swings, 1963. Photograph by Yale Joel for LIFE magazine. ©Time Inc. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/11/20/nobody-ever-asked-me-before monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1542730864603-N2ZYIWIAF976K14E74CE/elderly-man-reminiscing-over-family-photos.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Nobody ever asked me before” For seniors, life review and reminiscence are a key component of aging and ending life well. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-nov-27 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1542644123247-JN4Y6JX8MX9HY5TE57OV/louis-armstrong-and-wife-queens-home The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 27, 2018 Louis Armstrong and his wife Lucille in the den of their Corona, Queens, New York home; the jazz legend’s archives are now available online. PHOTO courtesy of Louis Armstrong Archive. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/55-questions-to-spark-thanksgiving-story-sharing monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1541120367881-HKAPSQAQJX6YNAH03ZD3/ledyard-ct-thanksgiving-duo.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 55 Questions to spark Thanksgiving story sharing Crouch family Thanksgiving, 1940, Ledyard, Connecticut. Photographs by Jack Delano (Library of Congress). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1541434856334-AF7DTJ7SKNER8CPODKJI/family-history-questions-for-thanksgiving.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 55 Questions to spark Thanksgiving story sharing - Free Thanksgiving Questions Guide Download all 55 questions in a handy printable booklet! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-nov12 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1541526372909-BVS20846CWK1G1Z5MIOX/teenage+telephone+essay.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: November 12, 2018 1956. Photograph by Grey Villet for LIFE magazine. ©Time Inc. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/thanksgiving-story-sharing monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1541002943091-ICYONRHL8LKFWZ5WWTLW/thanksgiving-with-family.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 Ways to give thanks through story sharing https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-oct-2-m3cxd-69bwj monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1540312772306-PDOBDXJIO045SG940PCH/kids-bubble-blowing-toy.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 29, 2018 Kid's Bubble-Blowing Toy, 1959. Photograph by Stan Wayman for LIFE magazine. ©Time Inc. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/10/22/stories-we-tell-isnt-new-but-its-worth-a-watch monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1540226736975-0BUX3TT5WBD1ACLTJVHR/stories+we+tell-sarah-polley.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories We Tell” isn’t new, but it’s worth a watch A scene from Sarah Polley’s 2012 documentery, Stories We Tell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1540229702082-75IA73AW7D6J7F7H6V0D/michael-polley-stories-we-tell.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories We Tell” isn’t new, but it’s worth a watch - “Why is that we talk and talk, or at least I certainly do, without somehow conveying what we’re really like?” —Michael Polley https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-oct-17 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1539708500043-UML40UJPN2DUBZLFT2YQ/wallenda-family-album.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 17, 2018 PHOTO: Wallenda Family Album Picture, 1962. Photographed by Robert W. Kelley for LIFE magazine. ©Time Inc. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/10/1/5-ideas-for-family-interviews monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1538414831914-ZS2ERPJ7PBS7G7RG8ZTR/grandparents-outside-at-thanksgiving.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 4 ideas for family interviews The next time your parents are around (Thanksgiving, perhaps?) why not have your children interview them about their lives? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-oct-2 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1538059243823-W88SWYV6FXEVDJYBELWQ/fiddlers-in-montana-1979.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: October 2, 2018 PHOTOGRAPH: Old time fiddling at Bernie Rasmussen's in Polson, Montana, July 22, 1979, from the Montana Folklife Survey collection at the Library of Congress. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/9/25/the-reluctant-interviewee monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1534182851303-M6GIFGLZ0TZYBVFF5Z38/alan-and-oscar-berliner.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The reluctant interviewee: “I’m just an ordinary guy” Filmmaker Alan Berliner filming his father Oscar on a Florida beach, circa 1993 https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-sept-18 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1537293961944-L5QGPZDH42WKDNWBWMIJ/sisters-remembering-love.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 18, 2018 “Kim Sisters” photographed by Robert W. Kelley for Life magazine. ©Time Inc. Many of the millions of photographs from the LIFE Photo Archive, from the 1750s to today, are available for non-commercial use. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/9/17/come-and-see-me monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1537209581552-6Q6J47Q6LW7XVDOOZFSQ/wine-basket-giveaway-modern-heirloom-books.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Come &amp; See Me This Friday! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/9/6/narrative-medicine-stories-nourish-empathy monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1536339098338-USHSHEA2AY5OEDESGFGH/man-in-hospital.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Narrative medicine: Stories nourish empathy narrative medicine uses the power of story to help patients near end of life https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-sept-3 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1535477298674-7EODZLTUWH5MELMEKRI5/cranberry-bog-queens-ny The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: September 3, 2018 Hal B. Fullerton. 1899. Cranberry bog and drain in Calverton, Suffolk County, NY. Gelatin silver print, part of the Empire State Digital Network accessed via the Digital Public Library of America. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/8/27/listen-up monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1535387994709-RZH3DFZPAWXGLF8L1U5E/life-story-coach-podcast.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Listen up! Listen to Dawn Roode interviewed by Amy Woods Butler on the Life Story Coach podcast https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-aug-7-sshp7 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1534805455301-87K954DS3L58ZR745F6T/in-books-lies-main.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 21, 2018 During a weekend trip to our nation’s capital, I escaped the oppressive heat in the Library of Congress and found inspiration at every turn. The next line of this quote from Thomas Carlyle reads: “the articulate audible voice of the past.” Indeed. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/8/7/family-history-in-the-21st-century monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1533669790035-HIDFIRDWP3OQA8XOPUO9/family-history-papers.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Family history in the 21st century family history is about more than the records and documents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1533671290640-6UPHFOXHP0YUO5EJIRW2/old-family-photo-album The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Family history in the 21st century - “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” —Rudyard Kipling https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/life-story-links-blog-roundup-aug-7 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1533582188526-3H5T8C45QC3V9FLOCJFN/old-friends-having-conversation.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: August 7, 2018 tell your stories to friends in conversation https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/7/26/the-next-chapter-in-our-story monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532634476232-58K2YZ1U4C2MKDGPJFV8/dawn-roode-interviewing-client The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The next chapter in our story Dawn Roode changed direction from a career in magazines including Vogue and Vanity Fair to focus on book making for individuals and families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532634680803-8PKFWV1TR1HRMKA3R624/IMG_6042.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The next chapter in our story - Life Story Books If you are interested in creating an autobiographical book, telling your own stories in your own words, consider our Life Story Books. (There’s even an option to tell a much shorter story in our One-Hour Heirloom.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532635191467-8GRKG8QIKA7JDKDOEYBU/old-photos-of-grandmother-tribute-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The next chapter in our story - Tribute Books For those wanting to celebrate a family member for a special occasion such as a milestone birthday or anniversary, to honor a loved one after a death, or to tell the stories of ancestors who came before, our Tribute Books are the right choice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532635251908-2V1O61YGGIG9W9ITD9MN/wedding-day-scene.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The next chapter in our story - “Dear Daughter...” And our newest addition: Dear Daughter, on Your Wedding Day, a once-in-a-lifetime gift for your engaged daughter. I interview the parents of the bride-to-be and together we craft an extended letter in an heirloom book that is as stunningly elegant as it is heartfelt, including family photos, cherished memories, and wisdom and dreams for her future. It is, truly, the gift guaranteed to make your daughter cry tears of joy on her wedding day. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/7/28/7-reasons-to-honor-your-engaged-daughter-with-an-heirloom-book monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532801021209-05MNSDY51SHYBGDWANP6/unique-wedding-gift-from-parents The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 7 Reasons to honor your engaged daughter with an heirloom book best gift for parents go give their engaged daughter on her wedding day is an heirloom book of memories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532801425947-LE6ZVUXJNAMSZ7O32VTK/DEAR_DAUGHTER_0018.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 7 Reasons to honor your engaged daughter with an heirloom book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532801443818-SVTFTII2REGROU6MMA61/DEAR_DAUGHTER_0019.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 7 Reasons to honor your engaged daughter with an heirloom book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532801456262-EGGKIV87MLZUVBR6NWR2/DEAR_DAUGHTER_0022.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 7 Reasons to honor your engaged daughter with an heirloom book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532802097504-J90KGT5OWII5IEA6SH9F/Grey%3ABlue.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 7 Reasons to honor your engaged daughter with an heirloom book - “Dear Daughter” Get started on a “Dear Daughter” heirloom book. Learn more. Free Download: How to Put the Meaning Back in the Wedding Planning Process Know someone who might be interested? 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You can help preserve the untold stories of the Stonewall Riots by donating personal photos and letters, too. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/may-16-life-story-links-blog-roundup monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1508872671282-OFIVI31WM15BMVJFYDBA/roundup+of+stories+of+interest+to+family+history+and+memory+keepers The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: Blog Roundup, May 15, 2018 curated links to blogs and articles of interest to personal historians and family biographers https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/5/8/8wv0hmrk9etxs1d032d7q2e3ibqz9f monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1525797792100-4T92IYV9IFR28125VKXD/just-do-it The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The plague of procrastination Nike's slogan "just do it" is applicable to life story writing and preserving your memories. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/may-1-life-story-links-blog-roundup monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1508872671282-OFIVI31WM15BMVJFYDBA/roundup+of+stories+of+interest+to+family+history+and+memory+keepers The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: Blog Roundup, May 1, 2018 curated links to blogs and articles of interest to personal historians and family biographers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1525102452543-OSXQTD3AFCWEFPCTLKJF/summer-of-1978-new-york-city The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: Blog Roundup, May 1, 2018 Photo by Paul Hosefros | More photos from the collection will be on view from May 3 through June 14 at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, 830 Fifth Avenue, near 64th Street in Manhattan. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/4/27/your-life-story-or-life-stories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1524877720405-ARB2LBPG5YYY2PBC8A0C/memoir-definition-small.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your life story—or life stories? 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I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous, 2012–ongoing. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery; Beirut / Hamburg https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/11/15/revealing-your-life-stories-one-list-at-a-time monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1510781764688-064EZUUBISOG996CT4K0/spread-from-my-ideal-bookshelf-book The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Revealing your life stories, one list at a time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1510781879680-XGP22P96KXTDHCPKL00B/using-lists-to-tell-life-stories The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Revealing your life stories, one list at a time The opening spread of a section of an heirloom book that uses a list format to tell family stories; view all eight pages below. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/february-5-2018-life-story-links-blog-roundup-ej86r-jxw6k5 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1508872671282-OFIVI31WM15BMVJFYDBA/roundup+of+stories+of+interest+to+family+history+and+memory+keepers The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: Blog Roundup, February 5 curated links to blogs and articles of interest to personal historians and family biographers https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/1/24/3-simple-ways-to-make-valentines-day-as-special-as-it-was-when-you-were-a-kid monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1516820804067-TB82KF7XMNUTU5VLXD6D/valentines-day-heart-cutouts The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Finding the love in Valentine’s Day how to make valentines day hold meaning again like it did when we were kids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1517419392997-LEYCIJL84IO01QLMMSI2/vintage-valentines-sections The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Finding the love in Valentine’s Day vintage children's valentines with puns and love sentiments https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/january-8-2018-life-story-links-blog-roundup-ej86r monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1508872671282-OFIVI31WM15BMVJFYDBA/roundup+of+stories+of+interest+to+family+history+and+memory+keepers The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: Blog Roundup, January 23 curated links to blogs and articles of interest to personal historians and family biographers https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2018/1/14/a-tendency-toward-nostalgia monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1515976439148-W86KLFD2TEUNVHZE3K6O/family-photo-boy-on-bike The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A tendency toward nostalgia a family photo from my old family photo album https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1515977330962-X7N195PSMVIKMLP0EB64/family-photo-little-boy The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A tendency toward nostalgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1515976501725-SMRJHW6TJJ0HSSSIYO5C/father-and-kids-walking-on-beach The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A tendency toward nostalgia another family photo from the album I created as a teenager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1515976733346-ROY6IOODFXWGCTR75QLB/grandfather-smiling-seventies The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A tendency toward nostalgia photo of my grandfather in family photo album https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1515977395624-FLMCFQ9ZMXN3I0I356FZ/girl-blowing-out-second-birthday-candles The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A tendency toward nostalgia https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/january-8-2018-life-story-links-blog-roundup monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1508872671282-OFIVI31WM15BMVJFYDBA/roundup+of+stories+of+interest+to+family+history+and+memory+keepers The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: Blog Roundup, January 9 curated links to blogs and articles of interest to personal historians and family biographers https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/12/19/holiday-grief-find-comfort-connection-in-memories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1513703839040-J7K0RQFXVMYMDVURFGG4/lonely-snow-grief-at-christmas-holidays The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Holiday grief: Find comfort &amp; connection in memories Christmas and the winter holidays can often be a sad time for those who are grieving a lost loved one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1513704108022-J9OMZDXAM0FEFUWKMEAE/memories-are-healing-in-time-of-grief The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Holiday grief: Find comfort &amp; connection in memories Grief is a form of love, and there is no timetable for when to stop grieving. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/9/13/this-week-in-personal-history-znm58-bjcfe-fzeps-z4a35-m8j7t-hrctx-5krxg-knmnm-wgk47-gmxf7-kzcjh-sdpbt-3dmld-pbazd monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1508872671282-OFIVI31WM15BMVJFYDBA/roundup+of+stories+of+interest+to+family+history+and+memory+keepers The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: Blog Roundup, December 11 curated links to blogs and articles of interest to personal historians and family biographers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1513043192297-PMAPF1G8QRV4UGJ6NJVT/silent-nuns-photograph-by-cam+mclaren The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: Blog Roundup, December 11 A photograph by Cam McLaren on display at the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year exhibition https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/9/13/this-week-in-personal-history-znm58-bjcfe-fzeps-z4a35-m8j7t-hrctx-5krxg-knmnm-wgk47-gmxf7-kzcjh-sdpbt-3dmld monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1508872671282-OFIVI31WM15BMVJFYDBA/roundup+of+stories+of+interest+to+family+history+and+memory+keepers The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Life Story Links: Blog Roundup, November 28 curated links to blogs and articles of interest to personal historians and family biographers https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/11/15/7pcc42rfm92ccxozzmt6r1zq8k1e76 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1510768258552-O8TE4561LOCU9Z9ONWUL/joshua-in-central-park.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t wait for “someday” Joshua in NYC's Central Park on November 9, the day we spoke. 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August 21 curated links to blogs and articles of interest to personal historians and family biographers https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/17/8/the-quest-for-truth-memoir-workbook-beth-kaphart monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1502212394807-OKT0E2IZ9BYI5DLM438B/tell-the-truth-make-it-matter-beth-kephart The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The quest for truth The greatest value in this workbook, in my opinion, is that it makes room for the truth. For your truth. For universal truths. It clears away the cobwebs of memory, sets your intention squarely in the direction of meaningful self-reflection, and encourages you to choose words that matter, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1502212497668-ECTMO53KU9219JXAVF25/inside-spread-from-beth-kephart-tell-the-truth The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The quest for truth Beth Kephart’s writing speaks to me on a visceral level; I luxuriate in her language, feel her words. 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June 27, 2017 curated links to blogs and articles of interest to personal historians and family biographers https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/6/6/stories-are-everything monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1496778205528-C2ZIP0TKNFT81KLBO31O/shutterstock_551803510.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Stories are everything.” tell your life story in a book https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/5/25/9-reasons-why-your-adoption-journey-is-worth-preserving monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1495733654520-BTWZ8WL9X2JAXN1PJ8EC/adopted-baby-showing-love-gripping-fingers.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 9 reasons why your adoption journey is worth preserving adopted baby picture important to preserve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1495732369378-SJ1PW0BHEOVY7XDTJX4C/adoption-journey-book The Blog - 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Special Ideas for Special Moms: More Unique Mother's Day Book Ideas memory book about pregnancy unique mothers day gift for expecting mothers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1488989140516-Z5BXFYFTT4M2OV54JKA9/mothers-day-book-ideas-for-mom-of-twins-and-multiples The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Special Ideas for Special Moms: More Unique Mother's Day Book Ideas custom memory books make most unique mothers day gift idea for mothers of twins and multiples https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1488990185156-CB70BQSFDDVQAKWI7SMK/mothers-day-book-ideas-for-adoptive-mothers The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Special Ideas for Special Moms: More Unique Mother's Day Book Ideas preserving adoption story in a legacy book is most unique mothers day gift for adoptive mothers https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2017/3/7/the-best-mothers-day-gift-ever-memories-in-a-life-story-book monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1488908182350-T75UOJYMWLPWQO7JNVSZ/Mothers-Day-Book-Ideas-Recipe-Book The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best Mother’s Day gift ever: memories a memory book with recipes and food memories is a unique mother's day gift idea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1488908343055-WRY005GW3P0UYCOT8S9Q/Mothers-Day-Gift-Idea-Letters-to-Mom-Tribute-Book The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best Mother’s Day gift ever: memories write letters to mom for a unique tribute book idea for mother's day gift https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1488908439559-8KHB7LVSNGFC0AFO1LVA/Mothers-Day-Gift-Idea-Restored-Wedding-Book The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The best Mother’s Day gift ever: memories restore your parents old wedding album into a modern wedding book for mother's day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1488913049370-JST5Q6KNHBYQIAUUYQ6O/Mothers-Day-Gift-Idea-Mother-Life-Story-Book The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 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Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - The tyranny of the family heirloom In her family history book, Kathleen Rath Smith remembers how her father would always read in “his” chair next to the radio. “When he came in, we got out of that chair!” We used photographs to show her parents' home and surroundings, and Kathleen as narrator recounts the stories of her childhood. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/preserve monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1486051739798-XB342W684SWEQM0CW4YN/Preserve-Your-Stories.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Let’s make genealogy a thing of the past Fuck you https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1486049270362-K7DYSMDCOYHNYSX4G0UW/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Let’s make genealogy a thing of the past https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1486050191572-7LL2W217MUG6C05D37HK/legacy-box-zoomed.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Let’s make genealogy a thing of the past Archival photo storage boxes such as this are a great way to store your family photos long-term, but consider simply using piles and sticky notes during the organization phase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1486052076441-BOCZ8V98YR0AKSB2VUFY/royal-albert-old-country-roses-teacup-saucer-798901569183.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Let’s make genealogy a thing of the past This Royal Albert teacup is lovely, sure, but I saved just one of my mother's set after she passed away so I could commune with her in my memories over tea. I photographed it and recorded its stories, too—yes, this teacup holds plenty of vivid stories, and I'm sure your family heirlooms do as well. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/12/23/one-word-remember monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1482511614488-FB5DRQV326PWV9G1S397/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - One Word: Remember https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1482868796598-07J9FEW0XV1601ZOTDGD/photo+memory+of+mom.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - One Word: Remember https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/11/17/googles-new-app-great-way-to-preserve-your-old-photos-before-they-fade-away monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1479408541468-3BCPRI5URTV923415P3D/image-asset.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Google’s new app: Great way to preserve your old photos before they fade away The new Google PhotoScan app allows users to digitally capture their old family photos with ease—and without glare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1479409041745-OGYYIMPTYVT0HU2BYBD6/image-asset.png The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Google’s new app: Great way to preserve your old photos before they fade away Your contacts automatically load from your device into the Google Photos interface, making sharing across platforms simple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1479409305519-OZEITMI3PU4Q5QJ03QJ4/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Google’s new app: Great way to preserve your old photos before they fade away There were various vintage cameras around the demo areas at Google's recent press event. Remember those cube-shaped flash bulbs for the Kodak Instamatic? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/8/27/what-you-can-learn-from-gloria-vanderbilt-anderson-cooper monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1473178386497-M59MBA3L8HJ0V3JXQPUI/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What you can learn from Gloria Vanderbilt &amp; Anderson Cooper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1472317537122-YF38ECWGNWGJJ9M11R9E/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - What you can learn from Gloria Vanderbilt &amp; Anderson Cooper Of course you can open a wonderful dialogue with a loved one by writing good old-fashioned letters (and who doesn't love getting a hand-written letter!), but email is by far a more expedient way to communicate—and one that may be easier to turn into your own keepsake book later, should that idea appeal. https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/8/5/connect-on-facebook-and-instagram-yes-but-dont-rely-on-social-media-to-save-your-memories monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1470498321621-6LBNNXSLTP5XM93X4O80/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t rely on social media to save your photo memories Enjoy photos on social media now—just don't rely on those platforms to preserve your pictures for posterity! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1470500595142-F81GMHSXE2P2WAQDJYCI/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t rely on social media to save your photo memories A square-shaped, textured-leather covered book with silver page gilding is an unconventional and oh-so-fun choice for a family Instagram annual. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1470500699640-PXGISY9P1OKLSH2U3WQJ/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t rely on social media to save your photo memories Hashtags and captions (above and below) add context and a modern graphic feel to an Instagram book. #FamilyAnnual #YearInPictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1470501074184-XEG264UNJ293VK0B046Z/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t rely on social media to save your photo memories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1470500844280-XQLV1P8PZY9JAIREYJZY/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Don’t rely on social media to save your photo memories A book based on social media posts may seem light-hearted, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be substantive—this heirloom's got weight and whimsy! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/8/15/billies-famous-foods monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1471359683259-JMVJY89H9LLJIGARXGRF/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Billee’s ‘Famous’ Foods” Gramma Billee, the writer's baby brother, and the writer as a little girl, 1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1471362720027-HTJBYIFXKQT4JWOLDFNX/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Billee’s ‘Famous’ Foods” An array of Billee’s handwritten recipes—well-loved and well-used, all! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/7/26/moms-spaghetti-and-meatballs monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469897559031-BUBEKNXRTG4FJ6LHVMXS/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Mom’s Spaghetti and Meatballs” The family behind the red sauce: the writer’s mom, Darice, in her mid-twenties, with her parents, Martin and Veronica Smith. Circa 1975 https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/7/30/pops-pie monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469893865168-RS5FOQ0D2VO08DP08PNG/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Pop’s Pie” The writer's first birthday, Oct. 29, 1981: Three generations—grandparents Catherine & John, their daughter Joann, and her daughter Christine—celebrate with one of Pop’s pies (rest assured, there was a first birthday cake, too, as Mom is quick to point out!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469894201681-6BS4WE5GBFFWTRUYJKX1/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Pop’s Pie” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469896729096-2BFH1NPV2DKWJWPQTDC7/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Pop’s Pie” The writer’s grandfather, John Carl Esposito (April 25, 1922 - December 16, 2001), in uniform in Pueblo, Colorado, where he was stationed before going overseas; 1942 https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/7/30/dm1rfz17rtw9niozvbq1ve8hi662cz monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469893013159-K75R7WVMB95H5OB2AI37/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A taste of the past https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469891111991-9N60R2642I2UA1J1FCG4/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - A taste of the past https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/7/25/choose-your-own-adventurethen-tell-it monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469499256658-8MA0S9BT1ZNVAHHBKN3S/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Choose your own adventure—then tell it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469498858186-56RQV4EK1A9J6I85L1DQ/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Choose your own adventure—then tell it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1469499161192-7ATHVF4SNEQWQCE8F3MW/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Choose your own adventure—then tell it. So you've got just one treasured photo—start there! What memories does it spark? https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/7/18/when-a-bad-photograph-is-the-perfect-picture monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1468868177804-13T6BXEN4NKMAE2SPM4S/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - When a bad photograph is the perfect picture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1468865215978-RNMHILLKC538BTQXKPNO/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - When a bad photograph is the perfect picture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1468866887570-DDZ5N2Z0AIDXL4PHQLUY/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - When a bad photograph is the perfect picture These family photos from a stay in Italy aren't great technically, but the places they evoke and the memories they call forth are priceless. Isn't it wonderful to see siblings' relative sizes to one another, to sense the kids' moods from their posture, to feel transported to the Italian countryside? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1468865480598-83XL6QDZ54J0VDKZU2NA/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - When a bad photograph is the perfect picture I admit, this one is a spectacular photograph—it would never be in contention for getting tossed! It's a wonderful example, though, of how a dramatic perspective can be a true gift, even when the subjects in the picture are not recognizable from that distance. Photo by Lilly Red Photography https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/6/21/why-genealogy-is-not-the-answer-to-finding-yourself monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1466535873422-HR125OCOTNQL2PTTOKSK/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why genealogy is not the answer to finding yourself Genealogy is history on a personal scale. It helps satisfy a deep need to understand how we fit into the broader world around us. Nonetheless, knowledge of our ancestors does not define us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1466536704225-Z7B5FR760R2NNZYEOQTM/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Why genealogy is not the answer to finding yourself Look to loved ones in your present, not just your past, to define who you are and what is important to you. After all, you are living your life, making memories, and creating stories to share with your own children one day! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/6/8/legacy-links-june-10-photographs-memory-and-life-lessons monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1465403422254-M5Z6Y5I6SUNHLFTIIJS3/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - #Legacy Links: June 10 - Photographs, Memory, and Life Lessons In a photo from the "DNA of Memory" exhibit, Narvaez Hernandez holds up photos of his parents, Enrique Narvaez Borrego and Concepcion Hernandez Garcia, who both died in Marchena, Seville, when Hernandez was 3 years old. Photo by Javier Diaz, courtesy Our Memory Association https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1465405859106-QQNVC36VP5KZSJRYZP2P/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - #Legacy Links: June 10 - Photographs, Memory, and Life Lessons According to a family tree, Rifkin's cousin Ibolia, left, died at Auschwitz in 1944. Rifkin estimates this picture is from sometime in the 1930s. Image courtesy Life Stories Today https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1465588450048-K01CD5HBT46OF31BDIGF/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - #Legacy Links: June 10 - Photographs, Memory, and Life Lessons https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/6/7/join-me-at-a-new-vibrant-storytelling-festival-this-weekend-in-madison-nj monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1465323083540-V93P59P5EIWDCHX01HAY/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Join me at a new, vibrant storytelling festival this weekend in Madison, NJ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1465323780924-GRYWY2TWBMUJM133DW6R/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Join me at a new, vibrant storytelling festival this weekend in Madison, NJ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1465323267273-QAXEBI4OB40EHNQOAH5H/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Join me at a new, vibrant storytelling festival this weekend in Madison, NJ https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/5/27/5-bullet-friday-legacy-edition-june-3 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/5/12/his-are-the-sepia-eyes-that-passed-through-me monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1463075431683-90L0M8K12U4325TFTDE6/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “His are the sepia eyes that passed through me.” Photo courtesy Beth Kephart; pictured on right is Carlos Alberto Bondanza, the grandfather of Kephart's husband, and the man whose stories captivated her imagination https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/5/27/5-bullet-friday-legacy-edition-may-27 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1464368876640-9GR19DRQC66QTDD481GV/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5-Bullet Friday Legacy Edition: May 27 Chloe Sevigny's pinboard, courtesy “FanPages” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1464368054016-R6R9YGO8MSM2R5G1UZTV/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5-Bullet Friday Legacy Edition: May 27 "Ladybug Dreaming," pencil and crayon on paper, by Vittorio, age 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1464368267393-1AT3X3VTR7MNFAVU5757/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5-Bullet Friday Legacy Edition: May 27 Illustration by Meera Joshi, courtesy The Chicago Maroon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1464367786339-EP60DN05GHF1GY4NIU6S/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - 5-Bullet Friday Legacy Edition: May 27 https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/4/28/honoring-mamita monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1464029409418-NV5M2GTY13X8VIPQNAA4/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “Honoring Mamita” The writer, Yuliana Delgado, with her maternal grandmother, Mother's Day, 1996 https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/4/28/my-mother-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-room monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1463431810379-UDEV75J4NOY7ESBO7HL0/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - “My Mother, the Most Beautiful Woman in the Room” Author Rachel Brodsky and her mother https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/5/12/how-to-use-photographs-as-prompts-for-writing-life-stories monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1591737338225-3T2BIIX05ERPEB632VSI/stack-of-family-photos.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to use photographs as prompts for writing life stories If writing a life story book seems overwhelming, write shorter stories from your life using some favorite family photos to jog your memory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1532635191467-8GRKG8QIKA7JDKDOEYBU/old-photos-of-grandmother-tribute-book.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to use photographs as prompts for writing life stories Here are a few ways to determine if your chosen family photo is good to write about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1561500370244-KMNWXM4C98VZA4I19DXV/how-to-use-photos-guide-phone-screen-2.jpg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How to use photographs as prompts for writing life stories - FREE Printable Guide Download our FREE GUIDE, “How to Use Photographs as Prompts for Writing Life Stories” and get started asap on your journey of preserving your memories! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/4/27/books-to-help-you-write-your-familys-stories-even-if-you-are-not-a-writer-5-top-titles-reviewed monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1461777691735-ICNUT9GRX27OM69I2IXS/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Books to help you write your family’s stories, even if you are not a writer https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2015/12/22/do-you-really-want-your-kids-to-look-like-they-stepped-off-a-billboard monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1459873980909-W8IR1WSUFVUBV9ZXTC73/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your kids’ natural smiles make most authentic photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1459874420975-82KX1NKWFAIQ0S29R7PV/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Your kids’ natural smiles make most authentic photos Here's an example of a shot from a professional shoot where the natural light and everyday clothing choices make it feel natural, not contrived. (Before heading out to Central Park, the photographer shot my son in the studio leaning on a skateboard, looking like he was in a clothing ad—cute as a button, but not at all indicative of my child's interests or personality!). Photo by PhotoOpNYC https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2016/3/28/its-time-to-start-spring-cleaning-your-photographs monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1459352623577-9UA9CRENDZNPU1UMBOTM/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - It’s time to start spring cleaning your photographs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1459354335155-612GENNQOK5E4HKETCZH/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - It’s time to start spring cleaning your photographs! https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2015/12/8/lkdgop42digy5b0y4k37y50sqnlvtk monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1449858805535-D4KM7QMT2WRQXIV3GGMO/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - When your wedding photographer doesn’t do albums, “I do”! Overlooking the resplendent Ligurian Coast from just below St. Peter's Church in Portovenere. Photograph by David Bastianoni https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1458067305321-QYWC5K3P2HLU5EQOVDYY/Wedding-in-rain The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - When your wedding photographer doesn’t do albums, “I do”! You might not buy into the old adage that a rainy wedding day brings good fortune, but you can't deny that often—with the right photographer behind the lens—Mother Nature styles some powerful photos. This one is cover-worthy, don't you think? Photograph by Hugo Juarez https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2015/12/14/out-of-the-box-ideas-for-making-your-book-truly-unique monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1456169094176-03I22YU4OIS1ZRZZY9HE/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Out-of-the-box ideas for making your photo book truly unique What's your family listening to? Add a playlist to your photo book to add yet one more fun layer to your memories! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1450126618179-05W5TXC5TOPOPOS679X5/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Out-of-the-box ideas for making your photo book truly unique https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/mommy-and-me monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1456863974436-98ZT1ZBUC5FQ6QDK15QS/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - How a struggle to tell my mother’s whole story turned into a more intimate portrait of love https://www.modernheirloombooks.com/new-blog/2015/11/9/sometimes-its-the-outtakes-that-matter-unfiltered monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1456165250906-4HK5ZKIKO60RC0MYSTS5/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Sometimes it’s the outtakes that matter. #unfiltered That moment of pre-show jitters makes for as memorable a shot as her big recital debut! Photograph by Marc Goldberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1449159182200-AJEVH9FGLKIOONVZNOVP/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Sometimes it’s the outtakes that matter. #unfiltered A smiling baby is always cute, but c'mon...is there anything cuter than a crying baby (sans volume)? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1447101703943-GKUCJ9DSZ9TWG6CGC1ZY/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Sometimes it’s the outtakes that matter. #unfiltered Photo by Kristen Livingston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d35604e4b08af97dadd334/1449160307184-WMY6G2CV0MN9VMZ3EARF/image-asset.jpeg The Blog - Write Your Life, Preserve Your Memories - Sometimes it’s the outtakes that matter. #unfiltered You might not want to showcase that pout in a frame, but in a photo book? 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