Memory Book Ideas

Memory Book

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:07:53 +0000

Welcome to Memory Book Ideas Website, containing loads of free ideas on how to create a memory book for a loved one.

It's quite easy to create a memory book, but it's also easy to get it wrong and miss something important out that you'll regret later on.

Memories are a funny thing, so when you create a memory book it's important to be methodical. That's where the free information on this website comes in. It provides memory book templates for every area of life.

Our memory book templates will help to produce a memory book that covers every aspect of your life, or the life of a loved one.

There is no great mystery to creating a memory book, but there's nothing worse than getting to the end and then thinking "I wish I'd mentioned ...".

This website will point you in the right direction and will help to avoid some of the obvious pitfalls when creating a memory book. It's by no means a finished product, and we welcome further comments or contributions.

If you have used some of these ideas to create a memory book, please add a comment under the appropriate entry to let us know how you got on, or where we could improve what we've written.

Similarly, if you think we've missed some area out, or if you think some aspect of the memory book ideas website could be improved, simply use the 'contact us' tab to let us know.

We'll use all appropriate feed-back to ensure creating a memory book is as easy as possible for you, so that you can create a memory book as easily as possible.

Write Your Own Memory Book

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:31:55 +0000

Writing your own memory book

When it comes to writing your own memory book, you write about what you know first, then fill in the gaps. It sounds straight forward, and it really is as long as you follow a few trusted rulls.

When it comes to what you are thinking, or what you thought, about something that happened, then you are the only one who really knows the truth. But when it comes to what physically happened, then there are usualy several points of view.

So describe your thoughts all you like, they're your thoughts and nobody else had them.

But when it comes down to describing events, our memories often deceive us, or if not deceive then they are incomplete. Take a mugging for example (no, I'm not saying you're a mugger, it's just an illustration!). The person doing the mugging, the person being mugged, the witness and the policeman will all see things rather differently.

So it is when we write our own memory book. We all have our point of view and we all see things differently. So when you have described events and written your record of events down as you remember them, a birthday, a wedding, a holiday for example, don't forget to ask other people that were there for their memories of the same event. It will often surprize you that they don't remember the thing that stuck in your mind most, but they have remembered something that you've long forgotten.

Of course, nobody's right and nobody's wrong. You're remembering things from a different perspective that's all. But if you want a complete record of what actually occurred at some event in your life, don't forget to get other people's viewpoint as well as your own.

I well remember seeing two films about Pearl Harbour. One in English, from the point of view of Americans, and one in Japanese, from the point of view of the Japanese. To understand fully what happened at Pearl Harbour you need to understand how both sides viewed the events. Why on earth did they attack and what were they hoping to achieve. It doesn't make you any less patriotic to view things from an opposing viewpoint, however wrong that viewpoint was.

So it is with your memories of events. You write your own memory book and that forms the main dialogue, but it adds a certain depth when you also include the views of others who lived through the same things but saw them from a different viewpoint.

Memory Book Ideas

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:33:29 +0000

My Memory Book Ideas Here.

This site contains many free memory book ideas for you to try. Sometimes, what is written may not be exactly what you want, but many articles can be adapted to your own particular requirements, so even if a suggestion is not exactly what you want, it may well form the launchpad to get you started on the right path.

There are ideas on this site about how and where to start, where to finish, what to include and what to exclude, how to preserve photographs, videos and newspaper cuttings, and how to create and print out a family tree that you can edit and other members of your family can also save for themselves.

The memory book ideas can be adapted to meet your needs, and we are grateful for all those who have contributed in any way. Some people have contributed without realizing it, we've heard them suggest something, or seen something that they've done, and have simply added it to our collection of knowledge. Other people have directly contacted us with suggestions that we've been happy to take on board.

Have You Got Memory Book Ideas?

Please share with us so that we can share with others who may be looking for the information you have already found. That way, everyone can benefit from the research work you have already done.

If you've searched this website for ideas, and not found exactly what you want, please don't just go away disappointed. Please contact us and let us know. We'll gladly help in your search, and add an appropriate page to this website so that the idea can be shared with other people. Similarly, if you come across an idea that we have not included, just email us with the details and we'll take it from there.

Sometimes things that are obvious to one person are not obvious to another, so if you think we should have included something, but it's not here, please use the 'contact us' link to let us know. The website, like all websites, is a work in progress, and we will be adding or editing things all the time in the light of our experience and feedback.

We want this site to be full of memory book ideas that everyone can use and refer to, and we can do that with your help.

Memory Book info

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:11:24 +0000

The following information will help you create a memory book.

We have tried to provide information on all different aspects, but there is bound to be some overlap between individual subjects.

We are constantly extending the information on the site in the light of information sent to us by site visitors, so if you have any 'bright' memory book ideas, please let us know.

Memory Book

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:10:42 +0000

My Memory Book .com

Free memory book ideas and advice to help create memories of yourself or your friends and family.

There is lots of information on your website to help you create a lasting and permanent memory book.

My Memory Book

We hope that this site will encourage you to commence writing a memory book of your own.

This is an ongoing project, and we welcome any articles or information that will help visitors to our site create a memory book. Just send us your ideas using the 'contact us' link and we'll try to incorporate them into the site.

Many people start with memories of their childhood, but we would suggest that your book should commence with a record of your parents, or even your grandparents, as this provides a depth of background upon which everything else can be built. Similarly, don't stop with yourself. If you have children, or grandchildren, then these form an important part of your memories and should therefore be included in your memory book.

Another thing we would suggest, is that you divide your project into sections, and complete each section individually rather than try to complete the whole thing at once. So, logically, you would start with your grandparents, and research as much information as you can. Then your parents, then your own birth and childhood, not forgetting any brothers or sisters, your school, your college or first job, your first love, your partner, your partners history, your children, and so on.

If you select each of these areas in turn, your memory book will not seem so daunting, and you will be surprised at how many memories this format brings to mind.

To help you, we will try and provide information upon each of these individual research projects on this site.

Please contact us to tell us how you get on, to encourage others that may be just starting out, or to raise any difficulties that you think someone else may be able to help you with.

Finally, whatever your reason for visiting this site, we hope you will find the resources you need to create a memory book you can be proud of.