Personal History Printables, #6

This is the final installment of my Personal History Printable series. Pack #6 includes pages dedicated to jobs, spouse, and children, as well as many generic templates for including more detail. Click the image to open the free printable!

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Personal History Printables, Part 5

Presenting the latest addition to my Personal History Printable series! In pack #5, you'll find pages for high school and college years, as well as pages to record accomplishments and aspirations. I feel like these years could potentially be some of the most important to record for posterity because these are the years when a person really begins to find themselves and decide who they are going to be.

Enjoy the free printables!

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Personal History Printables, Part 4

Here is the latest installment in my Personal History Printable series. This pack includes pages for middle school and junior high years. Extra pages are included for documenting extra-curricular activities and friends. Enjoy!

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Personal History Printables, Part 3

Just in time for Memorial Day, here is the third part of my Personal History Printable series:

This installment is for the elementary school years. Space is provided to list school information and teachers' names, then blank pages are provided to include photos and memories. Print as many pages out as you need to collect all your memories from kindergarten through sixth grade!

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Memorial Day

Memorial Day was always a big holiday for me growing up. My grandma would have a big gathering for a BBQ, then everyone would visit the cemetery to place flowers on the graves of my grandpa, my great-grandparents, and my great-great-grandparents. Since I got married, I think we may have only spent one Memorial Day with my family, generally opting instead to finish projects and visit the closer graves of my husband's grandfathers.

Ever since reading my grandma's personal history (detailed here), I have spent a lot of time thinking about my grandpa, who passed away when I was seven. So this year, I decided that I will be going to visit his grave and I wanted something that I could place on his headstone.

This is what I came up with. I had some extruded foam wreath forms that got broken during shipment, so I used a half-circle for this project. The half-circle was perfect for adding a bunting, which is made of fabric, with the letters traced on with a marker. I love the way it turned out.

What kind of Memorial Day traditions do you have?

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Compiling a Personal History, Part 2

If you missed the first installment, find it here.

For the second part of my Personal History series, I created printables to document preschool years.

This pack includes a page to document siblings' names and birth dates, the subject's favorite things up to age 5, photo pages, and lined pages for writing memories of the preschool years.

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Compiling a Personal History, Part 1

On a recent trip to visit my parents, I happened upon a personal history written by my grandmother. She had compiled it as a scrapbook, complete with photos, what she knew of her parents and grandparents, and memories of her life. She is still living, so it is not complete, but reading through it opened my eyes to how little we really know people -- even those closest to us. I grew up living 30 minutes away from my grandparents and visited at least twice a month. Since my parents have moved from my childhood home, I really feel like visiting my grandma is "going home" for me. I spent countless weekends playing and working on my grandparents' farm, but as I read through what my grandmother had written about herself, I learned so much that I never knew.

As I contemplated the concept of a personal history and harassed my parents about writing their own, I decided that it would be much easier to begin with a template. So I decided to design one. Part 1 of the Personal History Printable Template includes a page for recording the subject's name, birth information, parents' information, and a few lined pages for writing out memories of the subject's parents. I plan to design and provide more templates in the future, including sections on various life stages, major events, work, etc.

Click the button below to download the PDF for Pack 1.

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