Bring the family tree to life with Spoken Memoirs

Over Christmas, my sister in law, Elizabeth Green told me about a new company founded last year. Run by a trio of women from Lewes in East Sussex, Spoken Memoirs records personal life histories using high quality digital equipment to create a broadcast quality CD.

Sarah Hitchings of Spoken Memoirs says : “A spoken memoir is a special and personal way of celebrating and acknowledging a life. It would be an ideal means of celebrating a birthday, an anniversary or other ‘life event’. It enables you to record your stories and memories before they are lost in time. For the family historian or anyone researching their family tree, a Spoken Memoir can provide an interesting extra dimension, that of “lived” experience. The interview process itself is often a valuable experience – Spoken Memoirs will listen attentively to your story. This can be a useful way of reviewing and reflecting on your life while at the same time creating an important record for the future.” Spoken Memoirs cover London and the South East.

It occurs to me that a spoken memoir would also make an excellent retirement gift, particularly for a long serving employee who “holds” the corporate memory.

For more information, visit www.spokenmemoirs.co.uk