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Sharing Memories



Sharing Family Stories and Memories: Prompts for Writing Your Memoirs for Future Generations is now available as an Ebook and paperback on Amazon

Amazon.com ebook 
Amazon.ca paperback

Many new prompts have been added to this book. My weekly Sharing Memories prompts began in December 2009 and ended last week with a total of almost 200 prompts designed to jog memories of childhood experiences and stories. 

I encourage my readers who want to preserve family memories and stories to continue their weekly writing and recording. If we don't record our memories they will be lost within a few generations.

P.S. you do  not need a Kindle to read this ebook. You can read it on the Amazon Kindle Cloud reader (free) or the Kindle App (also free)

We all want to find information on our ancestors and are overjoyed to find an ancestor’s diary or journal. But what about our own memoirs? It's important as genealogists that we not forget about writing our own story.

We may think writing about ourselves is boring or egotistical but stop and think how excited your descendants would be to find a journal or dairy that their great great grandmother (you) wrote.

52 Weeks of Sharing Memories will guide you in writing your own genealogical journal. Every Sunday I  post a topic and write about my own memories. Prompts in the form of questions are provided to assist you in writing your own Sharing Memories journal. Make it public or private, it's your choice!

Sharing Memories Topics for the first 35 weeks of 2014

Sharing Memories Week 1: Challenge: 52 Weeks of Writing Our Memories - Kindergarten Days
Sharing Memories Week 2: Sharing Memories: I Did Not Like Grade 1
Sharing Memories Week 3: Sharing Memories: Getting Your Driver's Licence 
Sharing Memories Week 4: Sharing Memories: Playing Hooky in Grade 2 and 3
Sharing Memories Week 5:  Naughty Things You Did as a Kid
Sharing Memories Week 6: Games You Played 
Sharing Memories Week 7: Do You Remember Grades 3 and 4?
Sharing Memories Week 8: Grades 5 & 6
Sharing Memories Week 9: Who Was Your Favourite Relative?
Sharing Memories Week 10: Movie Time!
Sharing Memories Week 11: Grades 7 & 8
Sharing Memories Week 12: Gardening
Sharing Memories Week 13: Broken Bones & Other Accidents
Sharing Memories Week 14: Sharing Memories Week 14: Grade 9 - Love it or Hate it?
Sharing Memories Week 15: A Special Song
Sharing Memories Week 16: Grades 10 & 11
Sharing Memories Week 17: One Ringy Dingy Two Ringy Dingy
Sharing Memories Week 18:Your Favourite TV Shows
Sharing Memories Week 19:  My Mother the Adventurer!
Sharing Memories Week 20: Remembering Grades 12 & 13
Sharing Memories Week 21:  That Scary Exciting First Dance 
Sharing Memories Week 22: Jobs You Have Had
Sharing Memories Week 23: Oohh la la That First Crush
Sharing Memories Week 24: Some of My Favourite Books
Sharing Memories Week 25: Summer Time Fun
Sharing Memories Week 26: Prom Night, Fun or Disaster?
Sharing Memories Week 27:  First Loss
Sharing Memories Week 28:  Family Vacations, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sharing Memories Week 29:  Chores- What Kid Loves 'Em?
Sharing Memories Week 30:  Tattle Tales
Sharing Memories Week 31: You're Grounded
Sharing Memories Week 32: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Sharing Memories Week 33: Let's Visit Gramma
Sharing Memories Week 34: School's Out! 
Sharing Memories Week 35: Back to School