Everything your family needs to capture, preserve, and share the stories that matter most — from first memory to finished book.
Most family story platforms hand you a blank page and a list of prompts. We’ve taken a different approach. Our guide library draws on nearly 40 years of professional storytelling and interviewing experience to help you capture stories with depth, feeling, and honesty — the kind your family will return to for generations.
Two guides are available as free downloads, no signup required. The remaining seven are waiting inside the Vault, ready to support you at every stage of your storytelling journey.
Download these two guides and begin your family’s storytelling journey today.
Discover why most legacy books fall flat — and how to create one that your family will genuinely treasure. Learn the ‘curator not chronicler’ approach, five different book structures, techniques for making stories come alive, and a step-by-step roadmap from first memory to finished book.
The interviewing guide your family needs. Learn the art of asking questions that go beneath the surface, the extraordinary power of silence, how to go deeper without pushing, and how to navigate tricky moments. Includes a curated question bank organised by life theme.
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The most important guide in the library. Transform your stories from factual records into vivid, emotionally rich memories your family will feel, not just read. Covers sensory detail, honest emotion, bringing people to life, and quick tricks for better writing.
For the moment you sit down and think “I have no idea where to begin.” Fifty curated story sparks organised by theme — people, places, childhood, turning points, family, love, work, and the small stuff — each designed to trigger a specific memory, not a generic topic.
How to involve children in your family’s storytelling — and why it builds their resilience. Covers age-appropriate approaches from toddlers to teenagers, the annual interview framework, connecting kids to family history, and the intergenerational interview.
Create meaningful story-based gifts for the occasions that matter most: milestone birthdays, weddings, retirement, memorials, and new babies. Includes a practical short-notice approach for when you only have a week, and templates for gathering stories from contributors.
Go beyond the album. Learn the art of curation, visual narrative, layout that serves the story, and captions that add a layer your reader can’t see in the image. Includes the ‘three questions test’ for every photo and pro tips on titles and opening pages.
Capture the spirit of a year, not just the events. Learn what most people miss, how to structure beyond month-by-month, the year-at-a-glance page your grandchildren will study like archaeologists, and how to make yearbooks a family tradition that compounds over time.
The complete in-Vault edition of our legacy book guide, with all the same storytelling wisdom plus practical references to Vault tools and features. Designed to sit alongside your stories as you build your book.
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