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Personal Memory Edition · Birthdays & familyThe Day You Arrived
One arrival and its immediate family setting.
Standard edition · $89.00
8-page designed archival PDF, approximately 1,000–1,500 words; title and dedication, narrative, selected chronology, photo captions if supplied, source and uncertainty notes; MP3 narration and accessible TXT transcript. One private proof and one consolidated revision within scope.
Estimated 5–10 business days after complete usable materials and permissions; customer review and approved scope changes add time. Confirm gift deadlines before purchase.
Established price retained. An existing order’s purchased scope and commitments take priority.
Commission standard editionExpanded edition · by written quote
Request a longer edition with extra scenes, photographs or contributors through private intake. No extra work or charge starts without a separate written scope and accepted price.
Request an expanded scopeThe editorial assignment
One arrival and its immediate family setting.
Customer materials and free accessible sources only; no exhaustive genealogy, title search, legal verification or guaranteed finding.
Questions that shape your story
- What date or date range anchors this memory?
- Who was involved, in the names and language you prefer?
- Describe one scene with a concrete detail.
- Which sources, uncertainties and exclusions should shape the edition?
Fictional sample spread · all people and records inventedThe Day You Arrived — a fictional sample spread
At seventy, Ada still kept her first pay envelope inside a cookbook. The envelope established a wage and a date; her account supplied the exhilaration of bringing it home. Her childhood, working years and later family life did not unfold as a straight ascent. The story follows the choices she could explain, the people she could name, and the intervals she could no longer date. The missing years are marked, rather than filled with an imagined conversation.
This is a two-page design and writing preview, not a complete purchased edition.
Photos, files and your own voice
Choose your own permitted photos, separately approved licensed non-identifying stock, or a typography-only design. No generated identifiable people. No new stock purchase is included.
Standard archival PDF plus accessible TXT and MP3. On request, a DOCX reading copy of the approved text, without reproducing the print layout. No print book or physical delivery is included.
Supply written answers, your existing transcript (up to 3000 words), or your own usable MP3/M4A recording (up to 15 minutes). Save the speakers’ consent in private intake before uploading audio. Recordings are source material for the written edition. Edited original-voice audio and verbatim interview transcription use the separately purchased Interview Companion; narration of the approved history remains included.
Review, privacy and research boundaries
Paid order, private intake and permitted uploads, scope check, writing and design, private proof, one consolidated revision within scope, explicit approval, final private delivery. Paid research is excluded; no archive purchase, subscription, certificate fee or outside researcher is authorized by ordering. Any outside expense needs a separate written quote and explicit customer consent before commitment; the customer pays the provider directly.
You approve names, exclusions and the private recipients. Living subjects and contributors must permit their material and may review their contributions. Customer files use the existing private project system; public portfolio use requires separate consent. No claim of a verified event is made from a recollection alone.
Original MP3 narration of the approved text and a matching accessible TXT transcript. Customer voice is never cloned. Licensed music and commercial clips are excluded.
Standard: one consolidated revision within the purchased scope. Expanded new editions: two. A new subject, substantial new source material or a later change of direction requires a separate accepted quote. No interview scheduling, travel, printing, archive fee, legal advice or guaranteed discovery is included.
The existing Signature Plate remains an optional separately priced physical upgrade with its own proof, approval and U.S. delivery restrictions.