- Are there any family stories your aunts or uncles told you that you want to be sure to write down?
- Capture what different decades were like for you. Write about your 20’s, your 30’s, etc.
- Describe a mundane day. What is life like for you? Write down what you wish you knew about your grandparents’ or great-grandparents’ daily lives.
- Describe the kitchen in the home you spent the most time in.
- Did you have a favorite book as a child? (Or a favorite book you read to your children?)
- Did you have a marriage that didn’t work out? What do you want to say about that?
- Did your family survive a tragedy? What happened?
- How did your mother and father meet?
- If you have kids, write about them. What do you want them to know about their younger selves?
- If you’re married, how did you meet your spouse? Are there any stories you want to record from when you were dating?
- Remember when you were a kid and someone told you not to do something? What did you do that you were not supposed to? When did your curiosity get the better of you?
- What advice would you give future generations who read this journal?
- What are holidays like for you? What traditions do you hope carry on?
- What captures your imagination?
- What did a typical mealtime look like when you were growing up? What was your favorite food?
- What did your family do really well? How did they show love?
- What did your grandparents tell you about how they grew up?
- What do you enjoy doing most with friends and family?
- What is a family story that gets told over and over when people are together?
- What kinds of wildlife did you encounter as a kid?
- What movie did your family watch over and over?
- What pets do you have?
- What was high school like for you? Did you go to events like football games, prom, or spend weekends gaming in a friend’s basement?
- What was the hardest part about growing up?
- What was your favorite toy?
- What were you worried about as a kid that turned out to be not a big deal for you as a grown up?
- What world events impacted you when you were younger? How did they affect you?
- What’s the ethnicity of your surname? Do you know what it means or where it comes from?
- When you were younger, what did you like to do when it rained?
- Where did you go to school? What subjects did you enjoy?
- Where did your parents work? What was their trade? Do you know how your grandparents made their living?
- Where was your favorite place to spend time? What did you spend hours doing as a child?
- Where were you born? Where were your parents born?
- Who was your childhood best friend? Tell us about them.
- Write about the first home you remember.
- Write about the first place you lived on your own.
- Write about when and how you learned to manage money and pay bills. What did things cost then?
- Write about your first week of college, or the first week at your first job.
- Write about your name. What does it mean? Who chose it?
- Write some of your favorite things about your mother, father, siblings, cousins, and/or grandparents. Help the reader get to know them.
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