Family Story Prompts

Find specific questions that preserve everyday family history.

Choose a story theme
Your result will appear here

Choose the options and press the button.

Free to use. No account required. Your entries stay in this browser. Sharing happens only after you choose a share button.

How to get a useful result

Family Story Prompts is best for recording everyday family memories with a relative who is willing to share them. It creates one concrete memory prompt matched to a person and story theme. The result is a starting point, not a judgment or instruction that another person must follow.

Choose the options that fit now

The controls change the type of result, not the importance of the conversation. Pick the closest match and adjust the wording after it appears. No selection or generated result is sent to our server.

Adapt the result before using it

Ask permission before recording. Favor sensory details and ordinary routines, and keep uncertainty in the story when memories differ.

Follow through once

Label the note or recording with the speaker, date and names mentioned, then store it where the family can find it.

What the tool cannot decide

A generated result cannot know another person's boundaries, local details or the history of the relationship. Check the wording against the real situation. If safety, coercion, abuse or serious distress is involved, a conversation prompt is not a substitute for qualified support.

Three-step method
  1. Choose the closest context.
  2. Generate one result and make it sound like you.
  3. Use it once, then respond to what actually happens.

Use the family conversation guides and the guide to preserving family stories for a careful next step.