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.
YourStory Benefits
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.
What advice do you wish you had taken from your parents?
Some of the best advice I wish I had taken from my parents was to ‘Practise what you Preach’ and ‘There’s nothing worse than a hypocrite lad’ they used to always say. It was so very important to our parents that you believe in, not only what you’re saying, but also what you do in life.
Tell me about some of your most cherished friendships? What has made them so special?
One of my most cherished friendships was my old friend Mikey who I grew up with and who I knew since I was born. Mikey’s dad and my dad were best friends you see and Mikey and I were the same age. Well, actually, I am 4 months older than Mikey which has always seemed to be so significant and it
Do you have a favourite story you remember most from your childhood?
One of my greatest memories from my childhood was going to see Joseph and the AmazingTechnicolor Dreamcoat at the Leeds Grand Theatre. Must have been 1975. I could never forget because the show had come earlier that year, in January I think, and we couldn’t go at that time because me and my
What is the funniest memory you have?
I’ve got so many funny memories but one of the funniest was at my Uncle Paul’s wedding back in 1976. Uncle Paul was marrying Auntie Sarah and they’d met down at the local jazz club in Canterbury a year or so before. I was 14 at the time and me and my sister Jenny, who was 12 then, were head
What was your Mum like when you were a child? What was your strongest impression of her?
My Mum was a very warm-hearted and caring lady who would always be there to help anyone who needed it. Being a single Mum I remember she worked so hard not only raising us three kids but also working two jobs. She worked as a secretary part time at a solicitors and ran her own small business doingFrequently asked questions
FAQ
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 choose 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 weeks, and some take a year – it’s very individual.
What are the advantages to recording your life story in this way?
Your time, Your Location. You are in control of when and where you choose to complete the process. Whether it be in the privacy of your home over a cup of tea or on the hop wherever you have access to the internet! This avoids the need to invite a stranger into your home when using a traditional autobiographer 1:1 interviews – something people have told us time and again they don’t want to do.
Your Personalised Story. It is a uniquely personal set of questions. You ultimately decide on the questions included or not included, so they are completely relevant to your life.
Your Ease. We’re committed to making the process of documenting your life story easy! With an easy email system, a user-friendly portal and easy to navigate pages, you’ll know exactly what you’re getting. Plus our Customer Support is amazing as well!
Your privacy. Each story can only be viewed by the person submitting their life story and/or the gift giver (if bought for someone else). We at YourStory do not access any of the information submitted (text or photo) unless you ask us to log into your account to help with any issues.
Your money. Take the autobiography journey into your own hands and save thousands of pounds in the process when compared to any other method of currently writing an autobiography or telling life stories.
What will I need?
An email address, a device to access that email address and some internet! That’s it.
Do I get to review it before printing?
Who has access to my personal information and stories?
Only you do. We take privacy and confidentiality seriously. This is one of the advantages to being in control of your own story. The storyteller and gift giver (if bought as a gift for someone else) are the only people with access to your stories. If you need us to access your stories to help with any issues, we will need your permission first.
We adhere to all Data Protection policies and for total security we have chosen to partner with the team that secures the data for Apple, BMW, Disney, Financial Times, Harvard medical School and many more top tier firms – that’s how seriously we take it.
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 and are priced at £50 each.
My loved one doesn’t like to use computers, can I type their answers in for them?
Yes, as a gift giver, as long as they have allowed it, you also have access to the portal.
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 200 pages in depth.
This is a lovely size for the bookshelf or coffee table.
Do I get a choice of cover?
Yes. You can choose from four different cover designs and also personalise it with your own title and photo and choice of colour.
Can I buy extra copies?
Yes. You can purchase extra copies at any time up until the book has been sent to print. Perfect for all the family to treasure!
Additional copies are priced at £50.
What happens after my book is printed?
After completion of your book, we keep it on file and you will be notified before anything changes or the book is deleted.
If at any point in the future, you would like to Re-open your book to make changes or print further copies, this can be done from within your account.
There is a small admin charge including in our re-opening fee. This cost includes the printing of 1x copy of your re-opened book.
I’m stuck, how can I get help?
We’re committed to making this an easy process.
If you have a question or need help just contact us and someone will get back to you within a few hours.
Can I give this is a gift?
Yes! This is the most popular way to record a loved one’s life story and you can purchase an extra copies of the story book before it gets sent to print.
As the gift giver, you also gain access to the dashboard and you can help oversee the choice of questions and stories submitted by your loved one.
Of course, you can always buy this for yourself.
Can a YourStory book be shipped to a destination outside of the UK?
Shipping of printed books within the UK is free.
We also ship worldwide so that everyone can enjoy their own YourStory book.
Please bear in mind that shipping outside the UK will incur additional costs.
If you think you’ll be shipping the printed book to outside of the UK, please email us at hello@yourstory.co.uk with the printing location prior to placing your order.
We’ll provide all the details you need.