Who it's for
The story of how your family got here
Who decided. What came in the trunk. The first winter. When the language stopped at home. This gets the story from the one or two people who still hold it.
What makes it work
Built for exactly this.
In their language
Answers can be given in the first language and kept beside the translation.
The loss too
Every arrival story is also a story of what was given up. The book carries both.
Two generations back
Family stories reach further back than any record. They go in, marked as family stories.
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Question listQuestions to askIn the order a good interviewer would ask themGuideHow to write your family's immigration storyWho decided, what was carried, the first winter, what was lost: how to interview and write the story of a family that came from somewhere else.The booksEvery kind of bookMemoir, novel, young adult, picture book, and more
Also for
Other people it was made for.
A book of your grandparents' storiesFor families who want a grandparent's stories told, by voice, at their pace, and written into a real book while there is time.Your parents' story, finishedFor adult children who want to give a parent the gift of being listened to, and get back a book in their voice.When someone is facing somethingFor a person with a serious diagnosis, and the family around them, who want their story told on their terms, with control, dignity and no pressure.For hospice and palliative care teamsA legacy program for patients and families: dignified, controlled by the patient, and useful to the team.A book your child wrote, starring your childFor parents who want to catch a child's own stories, in their own words, and turn them into a picture book they are the hero of.The story of the company, told by the people who built itA founder memoir or company history gathered by interviewing the people who were there, in scenes, with the near-death included.
Tellforth
Tell it forward.
The stories are already there. All that is missing is someone to ask.
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