Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care. (2017, July 11). Recording a legacy: How to create a life journal.
https://www.crossroadshospice.com/hospice-palliative-care-blog/2017/july/11/recording-a-legacy-how-to-create-a-life-journal/
At Crossroads Hospice, volunteers interview patients about their life story and gather the content into a Life Journal. This article describes how you can compile your loved one’s stories, recipes, photos, artwork, and words of wisdom into a similar tribute.
Newlywords
https://www.newlywords.com
Invite up to 300 people to collaboratively build a memory book. The online PDF version is free; books can also be printed for a fee.
StoryCorps
https://storycorps.org/
StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. It gives people of all backgrounds the opportunity to record meaningful conversations and archive the recordings at the Library of Congress.
Campbell, R. and Svensson, C. (2015). Writing your legacy: The step-by-step guide to crafting your life story. New York: Penguin Random House
This book offers a step-by-step guide to chronicling an authentic life story. It includes 35 guided themes that explore milestones, relationships, career paths, and major choices.
Spence, L. (1997). Legacy: A step-by-step guide to writing personal history. Athens: OH: Swallow Press.
This practical guide outlines the steps to capturing and documenting the memories that make up a life. It uses encouraging coaching and open-ended questions to unlock myths, traditions, joys, pains, gains, and losses.
Morton, S. (2016). Story of my life: A workbook for preserving your legacy. Blue Ash: OH: Family Tree Books.
Follow the prompts in this book to preserve memories from your life. Sections include parents, siblings, childhood, high school, career, and adulthood.