Secure Family Memories For Generations to Come!

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Your loved one deserves a gift unlike any other. In a few simple steps, give them a unique storybook about their special life journey with meaningful photos and memories, and enable them to pass it down to future generations.

How We Help You

There are many ways to capture your own life stories; interviews, questionnaires, and recordings. But capturing a life story in a beautiful, easy-to-read format is still a difficult and time-consuming process.

What if there was a way to capture your life story easily?
A way that offers you a lovely hardbound book of your life?
A way that lets you choose all the areas of your life you would like to write about?

YourStory has created the easiest way to capture your life stories. 
Using our service, you can create a full-colour book that tells your life story on a timeline that suits you. No need for expensive software or editors or interviewers – everything you need to record your story is here – however many questions you want to answer – whenever you want to do it. 

All at an affordable price that allows for memorable books to be made for you, your friends and your family.

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What people say about YourStory

Mum loved it, and so did we! She wasn’t sure she had any stories to start with, but the questions helped, and she created a book that we will keep forever. Thanks!.

Jess Roundhouse

My family live all over the place now, so it was fantastic to write down my memories and get the book sent to them – they absolutely loved reading them, even my son got emotional!

Marget Taylor

Not really something I’d thought of before, but I’m really glad I did it, I remembered things I thought were long forgotten. I will probably keep adding stories over the next few years and print a new one later in life.

Marie Evans

3 Simple Steps

Personalised books are still a rare thing, and yet so special for people to write and read. Having an easy way for you to record your life for future generations just makes sense. You don’t want to be interviewed, or have people come to your home – so instead we simply send the questions over by email and you can answer them at your own pace whilst feeling comfortable in your own home. We provide categories of questions around life’s major themes and you can pick and choose any that you’d like to answer. If you’d rather make it as easy as possible, our ‘Perfect Path‘ questions give you the set of questions most often chosen by our customers – to help you get started quickly.

Step 1

Choose the questions and themes that they would like to write about.

Step 2

They reply to the questions that will be sent to them via email, on a regular schedule that they can choose.

Step 3

We store their stories, privately and securely, before creating a wonderful book for them, that we print and send out to them and anyone else they would like. As the Gift giver – if you would like to be involved, or help them at any stage, you can select to do this – our customers use this feature a lot to help their loved ones.

Our Questions Bring Out Your Most Precious Memories

To help guide your Story, choose your questions from our easy to use categories across all aspects of life – or create your own whenever you want!

Perfect Path

Choose this to have a list of the most popular questions built for you – these are questions the most Storytellers have used with us – you can add/edit/change at any time

Growing up

Tell the stories from your childhood with questions specifically chosen to help you focus on the most meaningful memories

Family

Let people know about your amazing family, through stories centered around their history and connections

School

Our education is in our most formative years. Explain how this effected you, what mattered most and what life lessons you learned

Love and Relationships

Write about the people who mattered most to you through your life, guided by the questions that help you tell their stories

Friendships

Friends have played a massive part in shaping your life. Let us prompt you to create the stories that show who they were to you.

Life and Philosophical

We don’t speak about these things much as a family, but really what matters most to you, what advice would you give to your youngest generations – our prompting questions will help you share your wisdom.

+Many More

We have lots of other categories you can choose from, or you can create your own questions whenever you want.

Example Questions

School/Education

What are the best memories form your school days? What are your worst enemies?

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Travel and Holidays

What was your first trip abroad?

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Family

What was your mum like when you were a child? What was your strongest impression of her?

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Childhood and Growing Up

What is one of your earliest childhood memories?

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Trivia

What is the funniest memory you have?

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Life/Philosophical

What advice would you give to you 20 year old self?

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Work and Career

What memories do have of starting your first job? What surprised you the most?

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Friendships

Tell em about your cherished friendships? What has made them so special?

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Parenting

How did you think the way you were raised influenced the way you parented?

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Love and Relationships

What do you think are the secrets to a happy relationship?

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YourStory Benefits

  • Full privacy and Security – No one but the Story writer will see their stories until they print the book (unless they add someone to help them)
  • If they can reply to an email or use the internet, they can create a book with us.
  • Worried that they might not use this gift? If the gift receiver doesn’t think they can use our Memory Keepsake Generator, we’ll refund you within 30 days.
  • Their Stories and Memories shared with all of their loved ones.
  • Choose the areas of life that they’d like to focus on.
  • UK Based, Family Run, Great Customer Support.
  • Create a Keepsake for generations.
  • Easy to use, whether young or old.
  • Affordable and transparent pricing.
  • Go at their own pace – no stress or worry.

You will support the Alzheimer’s Society directly as we donate to them for for every book published.

Your Amazing Book

Your full-colour book, will be printed on high quality coated paper, inside a lovely hardback cover. You choose your Title and Cover photo, as well as all the photos that go alongside each story.

Stories That Inspire

Do you need some inspiration on what to write, and how that might look? Read a selection of stories kindly provided by our previous customers from their own treasured books.

Here are the most frequently asked.

Still have questions?

Who is this for?

Anyone who is looking to record their own life story, or that of a loved one – including all of their favourite stories, pictures if you have them, and wants to create an incredible book to be kept for generations.

How does it work?

It’s really straightforward!

Choose from our expertly selected list of questions and categories to help you tell the stories that matter to you or your loved ones, or create your own unique questions.

We’ll email you those questions as often as you like (most people chosse 1 or 2 a week).

You just reply to that email with your story, and we collect it, storing it safely and securely.

Once you have answered as many questions as you’d like, we pull all your answers into a book format and you can review it plus add any pictures you want.

Once you are happy with your story we then lovingly bind into a hardcopy colour book and send out as many copies as you request, in the post.

At any time you can log onto your Dashboard, at a time that suits you, to track which answers have been submitted, see which questions are coming up and amend either your submitted stories, or your future questions.

How long does it take?

This is up to you! The key things that effect the timeline are how many stories you’d like to tell, how often you tell your stories, and how much you write for each!

We’ve had our storytellers complete their book in as little as 6 week, and some take a year – it’s very individual.

Pricing?

The cost of building your own story book is £149, this includes access to the platform throughout your story writing journey, our expert customer service team on hand to help with all queries and the printing of your Hardcopy, colour, book plus postage out to your desired address.

Extra copies of the book can be purchased for a much smaller fee (this varies depending on the quantity of books and the size of them).

What size is the book?

The beautiful book you will treasure is 7.44in wide x 9.68in high or (189mm x 246mm). The depth of the book will be defined by how many pages are written, and can be up to 500 pages in depth.

This is a lovely size for the bookshelf or coffee table.

You will never buy a gift as unique as this, or give someone a book that they will love more.