Especially for Live Forever Authors

 

           This corner of the Live Forever website is a special place, reserved for Live Forever Authors and information of interest relative to the development of The Gift of a Lifetime storybook. We will be dedicating this site to the benefit of authors in the creative development and enhancement of their storybook. We will be changing, updating, and adding information to this site as we provide information, suggestions, interesting ideas, and creative tips for your consideration and utilization.

 

                        Some Ideas and Creative Tips for the Enhancement of your Storybook

• The GOAL can be developed to an advanced stage of being a time-capsule, by adding to your storybook, your favorite music that is related to the time of a story in which you are displaying. These songs can be stored on CDs that are marked with story page numbers and identifing label that connects the CD or DVD with your related story.
• The time capsule idea can be carried even further with the recording and storing on CDs and DVDs of newspaper articles, era music, TV shows, radio shows, and cuts from movies.
• Creative option - Put a picture at the beginning of each chapter, within each chapter, or within the pages of a main body question relating to the subject. You could have that picture be of yourself at the age you were at the time of the story that you are displaying. This could be even further enhanced by adding a CD of relative photos or even DVDs to a related story. Your home movies or videos can be converted to DVDs, labeled to refer back to a related story, and stored in a CD/DVD vinyl pocket page, such as the one that holds your CD-ROM.
• Create your own subject chapters that relate to a very special part of your life, which is not covered by all of the other subject chapter offerings. You may use existing question patterns and formats to construct this new chapter. Or build your story by utilizing the old story writing standby of answering the questions of: where, when, who, what, why, and how of a story you want to tell.

 

Relative Links and Websites

 

These pages display a list of links to websites of providers of products or services that we believe may be useful to the Live Forever author, in the creative development and enhancement of their storybooks. We provide these website links only to inform you of what we have run across in the real world or found on the internet that we believe may be of interest to you.

We, at Live Forever, are not endorsing any product or vouching for any product reliability when we provide these links for your consideration. We will give our opinion of a product which we like and will leave the rest up to you, as to what you wish to do with the information that we have provided.

The following website links contain information, products, or services in which we believe you may find interesting or useful in the development of your storybook:

 

www.funeral-help.com Funeral? Although this is a subject that we usually try to avoid at any cost, it may cost us or our loved ones, much more than we realize. For those involved in the hospice care of a loved one, this book will be a wonderful tool in helping them through that final step into eternity. Or perhaps you are facing the reality of your final days in this world and wish to spare your loved ones the emotional and financial burden of arranging and preparing your funeral after your passing. This is a highly informative book, which will enlighten you in preparation for those final arrangements of your life or a loved one. 

            Dr. Markum, through his research, has all of the answers ready for you in his book. 

                                  The Affordable Funeral: Going in Style, Not in Debt
            For years now there have been self-help books on every imaginable topic, telling us how to live. Now there's one to help us learn a bit more about dying. Considering the expense involved, it's about time. The Affordable Funeral takes you through the ins and outs of funeral arrangements from three different approaches:

      1. Arranging the Unanticipated/Sudden Death Funeral

      2. Arranging the Anticipated Death Funeral

      3. Pre-planning Your Own, or a Loved-One's Funeral

           Our note: As an author of your personal legacy book, and knowing that you wish to be remembered fondly by those you leave behind, what a loving final gift for your loved ones, in your pre-settlement of your funeral arrangements. This thoughtful action will make the last remembrances about your life, be ones of a gentile ease of your transition into eternity, untarnished by any traumatic involvement by your loved ones in the making of your last-minute funeral arrangements and the emotional and financial burdens that may ensue. Your thoughtfulness, in sparing your loved ones that added trauma, will be quite an exclamation point in the ending of the grand story of your life.

 

www.PrintAndBind.com Historical Publications, Inc. is a serious publisher of family histories. No job is too small or too large. If you desire to have a professionally published book of your family history, these are the personal touch people to see. 

Our Note: I can speak personally about this company, as I have seen their in-depth work and know of their fine attention to quality. This is the company that was the printer/publisher of The Gift of a Lifetime, Authentic Aged Limited Edition.

 

www.familytreemagazine.com FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE is a bi-monthly family history magazine that you may find interesting, especially if you are researching your family tree (genealogical research) and hope to include that information in your storybook.

 

www.familytreemagazine.com/store Deeper into the previous site is a bookstore section that has some interesting books that may be helpful to you in many areas of research, development, preservation, and creative application of your information and historical treasures.

 

www.FamilyTimeCapsules.com FAMILY TIME CAPSULES creates professionally produced DVDs in the form of personal interviews of family members for historical family records. They have agents all over the country ready to serve you. If you are looking for that professional touch to your life storybook, they have a product that will dramatically enhance the content and display of your life story and the finished production will fit very nicely into your storybook, stored inside your vinyl DVD/CD holder.

www.familytreemaker.com  FAMILY TREE MAKER is a software product that will help you research, build, organize, record, and display your family tree history. All of the information acquired from this software will fit very nicely into your “My Family Tree” subject chapter.

 

www.yogs.com YE OLDE GENEALOGIE SHOPPE specializes in genealogy research and related goodies. Besides all of the great products that may be helpful to you in your family tree quests, this site is a great website to acquire a variety of family tree charts, attachable through a standard 3-ring binder format, such as that utilized by The GOAL. I personally met the woman who owns and runs this “SHOPPE.” I was very impressed with her knowledge of genealogy research and especially taken by her enthusiasm for the subject. She is also the creator and author of many of the products that she sells from her site. I have already purchased for myself, several family tree charts from this genealogy expert's store.

 

 

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