Memory Book

Making A Memorial Book

Creating memorial books to honor someone who has recently passed can be a very rewarding project. Here are a few tips for putting together a great one.

Gathering Your Material

This is an important step, because the more material you gather the more conclusive your memory book will be. Though it is very difficult to sum up someone’s life to everyone’s satisfaction, you give yourself a better chance if you compile as much material as possible. The sorts of items you will want to get together are, of course, photographs, letters, notes, paper scraps, and any newspaper clippings that you can find. If you are doing this at the behest of relatives or friends, you’ll need to get as much help from them as you possible can and give yourself time enough to do the work. If you, for instance operate a funeral home and have recently added memorial books to your list of services, you may want to consider hiring someone full time to do this work, or finding an independent contractor that you can depend on. These books are meant to be permanent bookshelf additions, and lots of people will see them, so it will pay in the long run to put out the best and most complete finished product that you can.

Organization

Especially if you are working with one of a kind objects that you have borrowed from friends and family, be careful to index the items in a spreadsheet. Whatever items you can copy and scan, do so and place the original items somewhere safe. Now is when you can start to look for overall themes in the person’s life, and start to create a sort of chronology. If, for instance your subject was a doting and beloved grandmother, get some reminisces from her grandchildren and get as many photos as you can for her to be remembered by. You can start anywhere in a persons live. For instance, for the aforementioned doting grandmother, you can start with her grandchildren and work backward through her life to whatever is known about her own grandmother.

You will make your task easier if you divide the book into chapters or sections and place all the material you have gathered on a long tabletop and start to organize it into these sections or chapters.

Writing

Depending on the scope of your project and the time you have, you can conduct interviews of people to whom your subject was important. Compiling this sort of oral history is a great way to sort of let the book write itself in the words of the people who knew your subject best.

There is always the chance that you will come across a person or two who has a negative opinion about your subject. Unless the situation can be dealt with and conveyed in good humor, it is probably best to avoid the any negativity for the purposes of this project.

Binding

Again, if you are in the funeral/memorial business, you may be looking to add memorial books to your list of services. If this is the case (and even if you are just a hobbyist), you should be aware of your binding options. Creating a hardcover book is remarkably easy and inexpensive and you can do it yourself right in your own offices.

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