The Resource Library
Resources for Every Family
Every story is worth keeping. Explore our tools, guides, and templates designed to help you preserve the voices, memories, and moments that make your family who they are.
From Our Shelf
Recommended reading
Real books that inspired our work — worth seeking out at your library or local bookstore.
To Our Children’s Children
by Bob Greene & D. G. Fulford
A guided workbook of questions that helps families capture and preserve their own history, one memory at a time — a classic starting point for a legacy journal.
Preserving Your Family’s Oral History and Stories
by Thomas MacEntee
A practical, step-by-step guide from a professional genealogist on recording, preserving, and sharing the oral histories that keep a family’s story alive.
The Grandfamily Guidebook
by Andrew Adesman, MD & Christine Adamec
Practical wisdom and support for grandparents raising grandchildren — the legal, emotional, and everyday realities at the heart of Ruth’s Embrace.
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
by Judi Kingry & Lauren Devine
The trusted, definitive reference on home canning and preserving — the kind of practical, self-reliant skill Ruth’s Embrace passes down between generations.
Always Free
Every Resource Here Costs Nothing
Legacy Keepers believes that access to preservation tools should never be a barrier. All of our guides, templates, story prompts, and community resources on this page are completely free, always. Because every family story matters, and every voice deserves to be kept.
