- How to make a map of your life
A map of your life has a pin on every place that mattered and a few sentences about why. What to put on it, in what order, and which tool to use.
- 60 questions to ask your parents about places
Sixty questions about homes, neighborhoods, jobs and journeys to ask a parent or grandparent, with advice on how to ask and how to keep the answers.
- 100 memory prompts by place
One hundred memory prompts, each naming a kind of place: homes, kitchens, shortcuts, schools, jobs and goodbyes. For memoir, journaling or a memory map.
- Why places unlock memories
What research shows about places as memory cues: experiments on spatial context, the brain's positioning system, the memory palace and the reminiscence bump.
- Thanksgiving activity: map ten family stories
A family history activity for Thanksgiving or any gathering: ask the oldest people in the room about ten places and pin each story where it happened.
- Family history scavenger hunt: a story walk
A story walk is a family history scavenger hunt: a route with a story at each stop that can only be read by someone standing there. How to set one up.
Guides to mapping your memories
Practical guides to remembering by place: what to put on a memory map, what to ask the people who know the stories, and what research says about why places bring memories back. They are free to read, print and share.