Family Story Interview Kit — Guided Questions & Keepsake Workbook (PDF)

A printable PDF of the questions to ask your parents before they die — and a guided way to capture their answers in their own words.

✦ NOW AI-READY ✦

This kit now works with your AI assistant (ChatGPT, Muse, Gemini, and similar). Drop the PDF into your AI chat, paste the starter prompt printed inside, and it helps you interview your parent or relative session by session — preparing the questions, capturing their answers in their own words, and assembling the keepsake. It never invents or fills in a memory.

PATENT PENDING — U.S. Provisional Application No. 64/187,478

Before the stories are gone, ask.

A calm, practical kit for capturing a parent's, grandparent's, or loved one's life stories in their own words — before those stories are lost.

Inside the 18-page printable PDF:

- 8 short interview sessions (20-40 minutes each): Early Years, Family & Roots, Becoming, Love & Friendship, Work & Making a Life, Hard Times, The Moments That Changed Everything, and What They Want Remembered

- Recording log and a simple consent page you read and sign together

- "Ask This Week" starter card — eight questions you can ask today

- Questions-that-open-doors guide for better stories

- Story-capture worksheets — print extra copies, one per story

- Life timeline and photo record pages

- Keepsake assembly guide and index of stories captured

No writing experience needed. Just ask, listen, and write down the exact words.

Instant download. Print at home or at any copy shop. For personal family use. This kit offers prompts and organisation only and is not legal, financial, or professional advice.

OUR PROMISE: If this kit isn't right for your situation, email us within 30 days of purchase and we'll refund you — no forms, no hassle.

Bought this kit and it helped? A short review on this page helps the next person in your spot find it — thank you.