Your life is made up of stories — childhood memories, family traditions, relationships, adventures, challenges, achievements, and the little moments that shaped who you became.
Relative Memories creates personalised life story books, family memoirs, and biographies from recorded conversations and family photographs. We help turn a lifetime of experiences into a beautifully written and professionally presented book that can be read, shared and passed down through generations.
Note: Our Memoir Books are an add-on to any of our film packages and cannot be made individually.
From Interview to Memoir Book
You don't have to write your life story yourself.
Our process is built around conversations, allowing your memories to come naturally.
We can ask questions about different stages of your life and let the stories unfold.
Those recorded interviews become the foundation of the memoir.
Family Photographs Bring the Story to Life
A life story book becomes even more meaningful when the written memories are accompanied by the photographs connected to them.
An old photograph might show a childhood home, but the story can tell you what it was like to grow up there.
A wedding photograph records a moment, but the memories surrounding it can tell the story behind the picture.
Family photographs can be incorporated throughout your memoir, biography or life story book, and we can also help with old photographs and home videos, including restoration and preparation for use in your finished project.
Life Lessons
The experiences that changed you, the things you learned and the messages you would like your children and grandchildren to carry forward.
Family History
Important family members, traditions, places and stories that help future generations understand where they came from.
Travel & Adventure
Places you lived, travelled to or returned to, together with the stories and memories associated with them.
Work & Career
Your working life, businesses, colleagues, achievements and memorable experiences.
Family & Relationships
Stories about parents, grandparents, siblings, partners, children and the people who shaped your life.
Childhood & early life
Memories of growing up, parents, siblings, school, friends, childhood homes and the world around you.
What Can Your Family Memoir Include?
Every life story is different, so there is no fixed template for your book. Your family memoir can include whatever matters most to you.
One Story. Two Heirlooms.
Your story can live on the page — and on film.
A printed memoir preserves your story in written form, together with the photographs and memories that illustrate it.
A life story film preserves another part of the story: the person's voice, expressions, personality, and the way they tell their memories themselves.
One lets future generations read the story.
The other lets them hear and see it being told.
One story. Two heirlooms.
A Meaningful Gift for Parents or Grandparents
A life story book can make a particularly personal gift for someone who has spent a lifetime collecting stories and memories.
Rather than giving another object that may eventually be forgotten, you can give a parent or grandparent the opportunity to preserve something only they can provide: their own life story.
The finished book can become a keepsake for the whole family.
It can be read today, shared tomorrow and passed down through generations.
