Custom Maps
Provide the basic details of your family's geographical story: birthplaces, homes, places with significant family meaning.
We'll produce a hand-drawn, Victorian-style map to take a place of pride in your home.
Custom Maps
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Provide the basic details of your family's geographical story: birthplaces, homes, places with significant family meaning.
We'll produce a hand-drawn, Victorian-style map to take a place of pride in your home.
Guided Autobiography Course
Do you have interest in writing about your life?
In this 5-week course you will
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Work through a variety of themes designed to spark memory and reflection
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Write a story or experience each week
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Hear examples of stories shared by other participants
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Be surprised by the insights you gain!
Sessions are 90 minutes long and include presentation, sharing, and discussion time. All participants receive a set of handouts at each session designed to spark and inspire writing both in the course and beyond.
Special Offer:
Mother's and Father's Day
Focus on Family History / Life Story Writing
The focus of this cohort is on those who are writing family history books. Broadly defined, this includes and is not limited to the following:
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Books about self
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Autobiography
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Memoir
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Life Story
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Autoenthography
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Books about someone else
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Biography
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Legacy writing
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Someone else’s memoir
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Books about your family
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Favourite family stories
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Migration story
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Ancestry/genealogy
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Baic Life Story
Tell the your stories and have them captured in a beautiful coffee-table-style book that summarizes your life.
A good fit if:
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The subject of the book has a clear sense of what stories they'd like to tell
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You'd like some custom elements
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You are looking for a clear, thoughtful process that guides you to create a bolk you'll be proud of.
Basic Life Story book includes:
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Up to 8 hours of interview time
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Design and layout of a book of up to 100 pages
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Up to 10 hours of historical research
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Up to 100 images
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Two custom maps, one custom family tree
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Four rounds of feedback
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Professional cover and interior design and layout
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Professional writing, editing, and proofreading
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Includes three (3) hardcover copies (more available to order)
Starting from $14,500
Autobiography
A memoir that shares a life story from start to finish, with photos throughout.
A good fit if you:
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Want to spend more time in interviews
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Are imagining a longer book, one that has space to get into same of the stories
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Would like the option to share publically for sale or in libraries
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Would like to work closely with a professional team to give significant input into the overall structure and design,
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Want to create a book that is fully representative of you / your loved one.
Autobiography Book Includes:
Includes all features of the Life Story Book, plus:
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Up to 12 hours of recorded and transcribed interviews
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Book of up to 150 pages
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ISBN registration
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E-book production
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Unlimited rounds of feedback
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Up to four custom maps and up to two custom family trees
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Two "podcast" arrangements made from recorded interiews
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Three (3) hardcover copies (more available to order)
Starting from $24,500
Full Personal History
A full life deserves a full book: create a beautiful comprehensive coffee-table book.
A good fit if you are looking for:
- Maximum interview time: to get beyond the initial surface stories
- A "real book" - up to 250 pages
- Significant historic context & in-depth research
- High-quality audio content ('family podcast') from interview material
If you don't want to be on the clock this is the approach for you.
Full Personal History book includes:
Includes all features of the Autobiography, plus:
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Up to 20 hours of interviews
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Custom photoshoot of relevant present and historical situations and people
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Historical context research
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Whatever it takes to get you to a high-quality, comprehensive coffee table book
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Seven (7) hardcover copies (more available to order)
Enquire for pricing
create a personalized gift for Father's Day
20% Off Sale
give a gift that he'll remember for years to come: a custom children's book
he'll receive a card for Father's Day and the full printed books by Christmas