Magic Memory Books gives you a way to save the memories that God gave us, forever.

Instructions

Your Family Memory site has only three sections for you to update: Family, Person, and Memory. The Timeline and Books automatically update.

Step 1 of 5

Add your people

To get started, just add one or two people you want to remember: family, relatives, and friends. Each Person gets their own page with fields for their name, dates, photo, and more.

The Smiths’ Family site so far

People

The Smiths have added 8 people. John and Mary, their son John Jr. and his wife Paula, and the grandchildren, Lily and Ben, plus Aunt Rose and friend Ed Miller.

  • John
  • Mary
  • John Jr.
  • Paula
  • Lily
  • Ben
  • Aunt Rose
  • Ed Miller

Step 2 of 5

Put them in families

A Family shows who belongs together, and the relationship between members: husband, wife, son, daughter and so on.

You can make as many families as you like. The Smiths have added two families: “John & Mary Smith” and “John Jr. & Paula Smith.”

The Smiths’ Family site so far

People

Added in step 1
8 people, each with a page

Families

John & Mary Smith

  • JohnHusband
  • MaryWife
  • John Jr.SonIn both families

John Jr. & Paula Smith

  • John Jr.HusbandIn both families
  • PaulaWife
  • LilyDaughter
  • BenSon

Good to know

John Jr. can appear in more than one family, as Son in one and Husband in another.

Step 3 of 5

Write a memory

A memory is a written story where you add People, photos, videos, audio recordings, and documents.

As you indicate the people in the memory, the memory also shows on their Person page.

The Smiths’ Family site so far

Already on the site

Added in steps 1 and 2
8 people 2 families

Memories

“Lily’s first birthday” has 3 people in it: Lily, her mother Paula, and Grandma Mary. This memory will appear on all three of their Person pages.

Memory Lily’s first birthday March 2019 · a story with photos
  • Lily’spage
  • Paula’spage
  • Mary’spage

Written once. It shows on all 3 pages.

Step 4 of 5

The books make themselves

As you add Memories, your site builds a Book for each Person containing all their memories.

The Smiths’ Family site so far

Already on the site

Added in steps 1, 2 and 3
8 people 2 families Lily’s first birthday and more

Inside Lily’s book

Here are her memories, in date order.

  1. March 10, 2018Lily is born
  2. March 2019Lily’s first birthdayAdded in step 3
  3. December 2019Christmas at Grandma’s farmAlso in the Christmas and Grandma’s farm books

Step 5 of 5

See it all on a timeline

The timeline shows a person’s life on one line, memory by memory.

Timeline

Lily’s page has her date of birth, March 10, 2018. So her timeline marks the day she was born, and shows how old she was at each memory.

Lily’s timeline

  1. 2018
  2. Lily was born

  3. March 10, 2018 Newborn

    Lily is born Lily came home in the blanket Grandma made…
  4. 2019

  5. March 2019 About 1 year old

    Lily’s first birthday Grandma Mary baked the cake, and Lily…

  6. December 2019 About 1 year, 9 months old

    Christmas at Grandma’s farm Snow on the barn, and the whole family…