• What are your hobbies.

  • What do you enjoy most about your life.

  • Where do you presently live.

  • What is your employment or do you work at
    home.

• When and where were you born: day, month, year; city, state, country.

• What is your full legal name (include maiden name if female) and nicknames.

• If married, what is your spouse's full legal name and nickname.

• Where & when were you married. 

• If you have children, what are their birth dates, gender, names, and where were they born.

  • If you have grandchildren, or great grandchildren, what are their names. Do you recall their birth years.
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• How many older and younger brothers and sisters do you have and in what order.

• What were their legal names, and nicknames, and where do they live.

   • Do you know what country your family
    came from before America and where
    they first settled.

   • Do you know the state/s in the U.S.
    where your family first lived?

   • How many brothers and sisters did your parents have.

• Would you like to write more but aren't sure where to begin. See Stages of Life  and Write About Your Family for memory prompts. 

•  Read Writing Examples to see short excepts of what others have written, much the same way they would "tell" the story to another person. And this is how your posterity wants it to read.