Memoirs Unlimited is a writing service specializing in

Personal & Company Histories

Your biography, or that of a senior relative, is an eloquent way to preserve your family heritage. The simple act of writing a memoir not only provides a priceless link from one generation to the next, but also saves valuable family information from being lost. Anecdotes, memories, and bits of little-known family information are treasures to share. Let us help you save them for future generations.

Whether you have been in business for seven years or a century, your company has developed a history. Memoirs Unlimited can catalog and preserve decades-old marketing pieces and company literature before it is lost or destroyed. Your company history could easily become a favorite reference book for both new and seasoned employees. Contact us for more information on the various ways we can help save your company heritage.

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Documenting Your Past

WHY MEMOIRS UNLIMITED?

Documenting Your Past

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Writer & Editor

Margaret Lupyan

Margaret Lupyan

As a personal historian and author, Margaret’s career has taken her from a technical writer and communications specialist to partnership in a graphics design company. With each experience adding a layer of proficiency to her craft, she gained the versatility to both write and design books. After realizing that her true calling was recording and preserving biographies and histories, she put it all together and launched Memoirs Unlimited in January 2000.

Preserve Your Legacy

Family/Business Memoirs & Editing Services

Everyone and everything has a story, and within that story are valuable insights, lessons, explanations, and experiences. But sharing can be difficult. It’s not easy collecting memories and information and making them a cohesive whole. This is where Memoirs Unlimited is at its unparalleled best. All that is required is for you to to tell us your stories, and we will do the rest. Your words and memories will be given structure and clarity, reflecting what you truly want to communicate.

For those who have already begun their autobiography but have gotten a little stuck in the process, we’re here to help. With decades of experience, our fresh pair of eyes and expertise can help organize and clarify your work to get you back on track.

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Personal Histories

For those who wish to write an accurate account of their life and times, Memoirs Unlimited offers our personal history service. Our service preserves stories, anecdotes, and special events for future generations.

Company Histories

Memoirs Unlimited helps consolidate data and images from company archives with recorded interviews from retirees and senior staff members for an accurate retrospective of your company and its products.

Editing & Support

Our new service provides thorough editing, insightful suggestions, and timely reminders, ensuring your manuscript stays on track for successful publication.

Family Footprints

One Important Word

“If you don’t know family history, you don’t know anything. You’re a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”

So true. You are part of a huge family tree with hundreds of branches. Wouldn’t it be nice to record the stories of your own special branch on that ancient tree? If not for you, then for the new leaves that form in years to come. Let them realize that they are a part of something special, that they belong to the history of your family.

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Editing Services

You’ve invested time and effort into your writing, whether it’s a crucial business document or a deeply personal story. Don’t let minor errors or unclear phrasing diminish its impact.

Our editing services provide the essential refinement your manuscript needs. We offer copyediting, line editing, and basic structural feedback to ensure your writing is clear, concise, and compelling. Plus, we provide supportive guidance to help you reach your publishing or presentation goals.

Let us help you transform your draft into a polished, professional document that resonates with your audience.

  • Copyediting: Refining grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style for clarity and consistency.
  • Line Editing: Enhancing sentence structure, word choice, and flow for improved readability.
  • Basic Structural Editing: Ensuring logical organization and coherence within your document.
  • Constructive Feedback: Providing thoughtful suggestions to strengthen your writing and achieve your goals.
  • Personalized Guidance: Offering gentle coaching and reminders to keep you motivated and on track for publication or presentation.

Our new service offers editing, suggestions, and reminders to help keep you on path and on your way to publication.

Frequently Asked Questions

We’ve compiled answers to frequently asked questions to help you understand our process and options for preserving your personal or company history.

As with any writing project, the cost of a personal history depends upon the length and detail of your story. In general, prices begin at $3000 for a complete personal history which includes research, recordings, transcriptions, scans and layout design.
Definitely. There are several ways we can record and preserve your memoirs that cost less than a book.
We like to say, “As long as it takes!” Clients are never rushed and are encouraged to make their personal history as complete as possible. Unless a client needs to complete a history within a certain time frame, projects can last from six months to over one year.
You will receive a draft of your personal history as we progress with the story. This is your opportunity to review the content for anything you would like to have added, changed, or deleted. We will also provide a final draft for your review.

Like you, our main interest at Memoirs Unlimited is to preserve your history before it is lost. For those who would rather skip the binding processes or feel that they would like to add more to their story at a later date, we are happy to provide the digital recordings and will transcribe them at your request.

Though it is preferable to conduct interviews face-to-face, we can still create your history by scheduling online or phone meetings.

More Than Names

Connecting to Your Ancestors’ Lived Experiences

Whether positive, negative, or a little of both, every person walking this earth has a unique and interesting perspective on life. Nobody experiences life the same way. When you think of it, each person is a member of an era, and as a member, lives their history within history. They, and we, are living history books. So, as one generation evaporates into memory, will there be enough evidence of how they lived for the next? Will there be a way for future family members to discover what their ancestors experienced during the point of history in which they existed? Would they ever discover what kind of connection they shared other than genetics? There is a way, and it’s more than what is left in the will (pardon the pun).

Searching for information to build a family tree has been growing in popularity for decades, and because of that, the internet is teaming with free and subscription data banks offering genealogical information. From familysearch.org to ancestry.com, anyone with some extra time, interest, and maybe cash, can build a nice file of names, dates, and documents. This data is what would be the structure – or bones – of your family history and that of those individuals who represent the building blocks. Here is where the difference lies between genealogical data and records found on the net or tucked away in Grandma’s closet: Where names, dates, and documents provide the framework, a personal history or memoir provides the depth. They are the personality of a page. For not only do you see that Grandma lived on E. 120th Street in 1920, you will also read what it was like for her to live on that street, how her house was furnished, and the events that occurred while she lived there.

Genealogy offers structure; personal histories offer substance. The two work hand in hand.

Genealogy offers structure; personal histories offer substance. The two work hand in hand.

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How to Record a Personal History and Save a Family Legacy

For anyone who is interested in recording a personal history or memoir, but hasn’t a clue where to start, my handbook is for you. It is an easy, how-to guide filled with tips and friendly advice to get you started.

How to Record a Personal History and Save a Family Legacy

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Testimonials

“We were fortunate to have Memoirs Unlimited compile and write our company history.  Margaret was very insightful in her investigative reporting and asked probing questions. Being a hundred and thirteen year old company, we had many loose memories and bits of fragmented information. Margaret was able to skillfully bring all that together and tell about our company history in a compelling and interesting way. We are very pleased to have a written history to hand down to future generations.”

The Bonfoey Company

“I delivered a few of the books to my folks last week and they LOVED them!  They wanted me to tell you that you did a fabulous job.  We are all very pleased!  Thank you so much for all of the work you did, my family will cherish my parent’s memoir for years and generations to come.”

M. Carpenter