Services
What We Create
Every family has a story worth preserving — and there’s more than one way to tell it. Whether you prefer a written memoir, a beautifully bound keepsake, or a spoken memory captured in time, our services are designed to honor your family’s voice, history, and heart.
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Personal History
Your Story Matters! Every person’s history is a unique journey with its own characters, experiences, turning points, comedy, drama, and lessons learned. A personal history preserves the stories, values, and memories of a life—your own or someone you love. It’s a meaningful way to honor the past, celebrate the present, and create a legacy for future generations.
A personal history can be about…
- You, your personal history, your family history
- A beloved parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, etc
- The founding member of your organization
- The visionary who launched your company
- The eldest member of your faith community
- A mentor whose thoughts and perspective have shaped your own
- Anyone whose unique life story has value to you.
Milestone Books tailors each project to suit the needs and desires of every client.
Each book includes:
- Personal interviews with you and, if desired, other family members
- Pre-written materials you already have (if applicable, not required)
- Custom-designed cover and interior
- Family photographs and important memorabilia
- Professional editing
- High-quality printing
- Oral history recordings from the interview process
*These books can also be included in your estate planning.
Memory Book
There are a handful of people out there who have the time and patience to create gorgeous scrapbooks of those memorable events in their lives.
And then there’s everyone else – those of us who WISH we had all that time and patience but still want our memories in a beautiful book we can flip through again and again!
With Milestone Books, you don’t need the time and patience — just the pictures and the stories. We do the rest.
- Baby’s First Year
- Cross-Country Road Trip
- A Cherished Friendship
- How We Met
- Family Vacation
- …or any of your own ideas!
Each book includes:
- Personal interviews with you about the event and/or photos provided
- Pre-written materials you already have (if applicable, not required)
- Photos and memorabilia about the event
- Custom-designed cover and interior
- Professional editing
- High-quality printing
Celebration Book
Show someone just how special they are. Celebrate life’s meaningful moments with a custom book that turns memories, stories, and tributes into a one-of-a-kind gift.
A Milestone Book is the perfect gift to celebrate:
- Birthdays
- Weddings
- Family Reunions
- Anniversaries
- Funerals
- Retirement
- Babies
- Graduations
- Veteran Service
- Any important event!
Each book includes:
- Stories collected from friends, family, and colleagues about the giftee
- Photographs and memorabilia provided by the people who donated stories
- Section in the back of the book for party guests to add well-wishes or more stories on site
- Custom-designed cover and interior
- Professional editing
- High-quality printing
Oral History
There’s something powerful about hearing a story in the voice of the one who lived it. We record and preserve spoken memories—capturing the tone, emotion, and personality that can’t be written down.
Whether in person or over the phone, we help save voices that deserve to be heard for generations.
Includes:
- Recordings of personal interviews
- Recordings provided as digital files shared online or saved to a thumb drive