We provide choices for preserving your personal history.

At Kept Memory, we provide a variety of services to capture and preserve your stories from concept to completed project. 

Your story in print

Completing a personal history or memoir is a wonderful way to leave a priceless legacy for your family. Not a writer? We can help. We will record interviews with you and, using your words, shape a narrative that will retain your memories and your voice. You may add photographs, keepsake memorabilia, and documents to visually enhance your story. Print options vary from simple softcover books of 20-25 pages to elegant, limited-edition  hardcover books of up to a few hundred pages with leather or cloth covers and dust jackets. 

Have you already written your personal history or memoir? We can help you get it into print. We manage the process from editing to design and printing. Today it is possible to print one copy or hundreds. And the cost is reasonable. The result is priceless.

Your story in audio

Recording your story in audio is an economical option. It can be a good starting place if you want to later have your personal history in print. If we are writing your story, we record interviews from which we will craft the first person narratives. This is  an important step  in completing a printed personal history.  We work with a team of professionals skilled in audio editing. 

Pictorial Memoirs in print or audio 

Do you have more photographs than stories? You can communicate a great deal about your life or the life of a loved one you wish to honor through photographs with descriptive captions and brief vignettes. You can cover a decade, travel, a special event, or your entire life. Pictorial Memoirs can be produced as either books or video slide shows.

Workshops and classes to help you write your story

We love to help people tell their stories, whether they are in print or not. Three classes offer the opportunity to do just that. We offer Guided Autobiography, Ethical Wills (also called Legacy Letters), and Writing Your  Obituary. 

Important note

Completing a memoir or autobiography can take from ten to eighteen months, so you will want to begin well before your milestone event. Tributes and memorials can be completed in as little as  nine weeks from the time we have all of your project materials in hand. We encourage a celebratory event such as a book signing when you receive your books.