Outline For Writing Your Life's History

1. Name: Your name in full, together with any other names (and nicknames) by which you may have been known.

2. Birth: Day, month, year; house or hospital where born; town, county, state or country; circumstances surrounding.

3. Father: His name; date and place of his birth; name of his father; maiden name of his mother.

4. Mother: Her maiden name; her date and place of birth; name of her father; maiden name of her mother.

5. Blessing: When blessed as an infant - day, month, year; where blessed - ward, stake, town, county, state or country; by who blessed.

6. Baptism: Where - town, county, state or country; when - day, month, year; by whom; where this record is written or preserved - ward, state, branch or mission.

7. Confirmation: When - day, month, year; where - ward, stake, town, county, state or country; by whom; where this record is written or preserved in ward, stake, branch or mission.

8. Patriarchal Blessing: When given, where given, by whom given.

9. Schooling: When and where commenced, schools attended, teachers you remember best, certificates or diplomas received, outstanding experiences.

10. Childhood Memories: Adventures, accidents, thoughts, amusing incidents, friends.

11. Church Activities. Your conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ (what influenced you most); Primary, Sunday School, youth activities, seminary; baptisms for the dead; firesides.

12. Faith-promoting Experiences: In your life; in those of your family that affect you.

13. Health: With record of sickness and accidents.

14. Good Times: Favorite sports and amusements; things you have enjoyed.

15. Reading: Books and stories that have impressed and helped you.

16. Movies: Films that have impressed or influenced you.

17. Home Life: Duties in the home, home enjoyments, brothers and sisters, places you have lived, family trips and vacations, pets.

18. Hobbies or Talents: Musical, artistic or creative abilities lessons you have taken; what you like to do.

19. Future Plans: Things you want most to do - in business and. vocations, in church service, in home life,

20. Enhance your story with appropriate pictures of family, trips, homes in which you lived, friends, pets.