2. Your childhood: health, diseases, accidents, playmates, trips, associations with your
brothers and sisters, unusual happenings, visitors in your home, visits to grandparents,
relatives you remember, religion in hour home, financial conditions of parents.
3. Your brothers and sisters: names, date of birth, place of birth, accomplishments, names of
of spouses, date and place of marriage, their children.
4. Your school days: schools attended, teachers, courses studie3d, special activities,
associates, achievements, socials, report cards, humorous situations, who or what influenced
you to tkae certain courses or do things you might not otherwise have done.
5. Your activities before, after and between school sessions: vacations, jobs, attendance at church, other church functions, scouting, sports, tasks at home, fun and funny situations.
6. Your courtship and marriage: meeting your spouse, special dates, how the question was
popped, marriage plans, the wedding, parties and receptions, gifts, honeymoon, meeting your
in-laws, what influenced you most in your choice of spouse.
7. Settling down to married life: your new home, starting housekeeping, bride's biscuits,
spats and adjustments, a growing love, making ends meet, joys and sorrows, your mother-in-
law, other in-laws.
8. Your vocation: training for your job, promotions, companies you worked for, salaries,
associates, achievements, your own business.
9. Your children: names, dates and places of births, health of mother before and after, how
father fared, characteristics, habits, smart sayings and doings, grown up, accomplishments,
schooling, marriage, vocations, sicknesses, accidents, operations.
10. Your civic and political activities: positions held, services rendered, clubs,
fraternities and lodges you have joined.
11. Your church activities: as a young person, through adolescence, churches attended,
church positions, church associates, church certificates, answers to prayers, necessity and
power of love.
12. Your avocations: sports, home hobbies, dramatic and musical activities, reading
habits, genealogy, travels, favorite sonts, movies, books, writings, poems, etc.
13. Special celebrations or holidays you remember: Easter, Christmas, national and local
holidays, vacations.
15. Your ancestors: your impressions of those you knew personally; a general sketch of
those you did not know; father, mother, grandparents, great-grandparents, other relatives.
16. Your encouragement and counsel to your descendants: carrying on in family traditions
and activities; their obligations to their country, church and family; your suggestions to
your progeny and others on honest, humility, health, diligence, perseverance, thrift,
loyalty, kindness, reverence, the Bible and other religious and edifying books; service
to fellowmen, your belief regarding God, etc.
17. Hints on writing your life story: tell your story plainly and with directness; write
truthfully of uplifting, refined and honorable occurrences and experiences. Humor helps
to make for easier reading. If you can give the whys of your decisions and changaes in
activities, it may help others. Illustrate with as many pictures as possible. Make several
copies, or better still print and give to each of your children and grandchildren. Place
copies in local and national libraries and/or historical societies.