ABOUT US

Welcome to: The Great Life Stories Community

We began this community as a means to celebrate the lives and experience of our mothers, fathers, and all those that have shaped our lives.

Each of our founders had close relatives have near death experiences or pass away in a very tight 2-3 month window of time. As a consequence of these events, occurring so close together in time, we realized that time was short and that our parents and grandparents were transitioning into the last phase of their lives. All of us were so busy with the here and now that we missed the urgency. It was imperative that we begin the process of saving our parent's accomplishments, our childhoods, and our family histories. We all agreed that there was much that we could do to capture our parents' stories and experience so we could share them with our children, grandchildren, and future generations.

In the process of thinking about how to create an easy to use way to capture personal histories, we expected that many of our ancestors shared common experiences around major worldwide events: The Great Depression, WW II, the Korean and Vietnam wars. What we discovered was that not only did people go through similar experiences around wars or economic events, they also shared common family experiences: a first date, a first job, a first child. For many of us as first, second, or third generation emigrants, coming to the United States was a common experience, just in different times and generations. We found that this was an international need; every culture wanted to save their parent's legacy. These common themes gave us an opportunity to share these similarities between different story tellers. One person's life was linked to others through their experience in unexpected ways. Once these common experiences were connected, storytellers could enjoy reading each other's stories and the community was born.

The community of GreatLifeStories.com is a safe repository of personal histories and memoirs. Stories can be stored for private use or shared with the world. We hope to create an enjoyable experience for you, your parents, your children, and future generations.

Please enjoy the stories in our community and send us your suggestions. There is much to do here and many creative ideas to include. Start now! Create your Great Life Story.

Sincerely,

Phil Gibson
Co-Founder & CEO
GreatLifeStories.com