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"Lifetales has been extraordinarily, EXTRAORDINARILY helpful for us after Phil passed away"

Mike F. used LifeTales to preserve the memories of Phil, a dear friend who passed away suddenly of a heart attack. With friends telling friends, he ended up connecting with 54 people on the LifeTales Memoir, all of whom knew Phil at some point in his life. With LifeTales, all participants were able to create stories. In addition, the social element — ability for everyone to comment, react and chat about stories — made it extra engaging for all and added more richness to the stories. In Mike's words: " They were "extremely, extremely satisfied"

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LifeTales Staff

"Don’t Wait Any Longer to Learn About Your Elders"

We chatted with LifeTales’ user Joanna Riquett after she started doing a memoir for her grandmother. We asked her why she thought it was important and why she was doing it now. We thought our conversation might be interesting to you — especially if you're one of the vast majority of people who believe a memoir about your parent or grandparent would be interesting, but you've been "waiting until I have some time" or waiting for someone else to do it. Joanna's most important point: "Do it now! You never know how much time is left. And by the time you do, it will be too late ☹️

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LifeTales

4 Benefits of Doing a Memoir With a Loved One

Several weeks ago, I started a memoir for my Grandma. I did this by using our weekly videochats as a way to capture her stories. Each week, I recorded our video chats, making sure to ask her just one question about her past … a nice gentle way to start. Here are 4 benefits I’ve found so far.

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Joanna Riquet

The Best Questions To Capture Your Family’s Memories

If you’re inclined to start capturing your family’s history by creating a memoir of your parents or grandparents, we have a list of questions that could be useful for the process.

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LifeTales

How To Connect With Grandma

Here's an easy idea on how to connect with Grandma in an engaging way in a time we need to stay close to our loved ones. We hope it helps!

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LifeTales

Tell The Stories That Could Be Forgotten!

Remember the days when there wasn’t enough time to check in with friends; not enough time to call parents; not enough time to deviate from your incredibly busy schedule? Today, amid the coronavirus crisis and the necessary social distancing policy, the world has given us a chance to rethink our priorities. In a time of uncertainty, the only thing we know for sure is that staying close to family, in person or virtually, matters a lot!

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LifeTales

Grandparents Isolated? Here’s a Way to Keep Them Engaged

We're in the midst of a health crisis — and we sure don't want to expose our elders! Unfortunately, our parents/grandparents are often feeling isolated and disconnected from the family. Here's an awesome idea I'm doing with my Grandmother!

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Joanna Riquet

The Top 6 Memoir Writing Services to Help You Write Your Memoir

People hire memoir writing services to help write their memoir for lots of different reasons. Maybe they can’t decide what’s important to include. Maybe some things are simply too difficult to write about. Maybe they’re stuck midway through. Or maybe they just can’t decide where to start.

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Harvey Beck

How Do I Find Someone to Write My Life Story? (Checklist Included)

People hire writers to help write their memoir for lots of different reasons. Perhaps you’re struggling to decide what’s important to include. Maybe some things are simply too difficult emotionally to write about yourself. Perhaps you’ve started a memoir but can’t make headway. Maybe you simply can’t decide where to begin.

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Harvey Beck

Top 6 Tips for Writing Your Memoir

Ever wanted to write your memoirs? Unsure where to start? Here are six how-to’s to guide you as you write.

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Ali Abbas

How To Write Your Memoir in Just Minutes a Week

How much do you really know about your Mom and Dad, or your Grandparents? Our older family members have so many precious memories to share, ones that have shaped them, and through them our whole family's history and identity.

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Ali Abbas

What’s the Difference Between a Memoir and an Autobiography?

Putting together a memoir can be intimidating. How can you be expected to document your whole life? All those dates, and times, and place names… Who can remember them all? But do you need to? Is that really what a memoir is? The answer may surprise you.

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Ali Abbas

44 Questions Your Kids Can Ask Dad This Father’s Day

With Father’s Day right around the corner, now is the perfect time to sit down with the dad in your life and talk about him.

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Harvey Beck

How to Write About Your Childhood

We hear so much in the news today about people doing DNA tests to trace their ancestry. But people often forget that access to their heritage is as close as grandma and grandpa! Telling stories about ourselves and our family is how we connect to our past and those who came before.

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Harvey Beck

Why We Created LifeTales

What will our kids know about our parents? “Tell me a story about Grandpa when he was a boy” said my 5 year old son at my father’s funeral. To my dismay, I realized I COULDN’T. We never talked about his childhood … even the basics, like his favorite subject in school … or anything about his first job. And I sure didn’t know anything about his dreams growing up … what made him who he was.

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Harvey Beck