Journal
My Jamaican (American) Family Stories
A Heritage Journal for the Stories, Recipes, and Wisdom Carried from the Island
Your grandmother's kitchen holds a whole history. Write it down before someone else does.
For the Someone from a Jamaican or Jamaican American family who wants to preserve the stories, recipes, and wisdom carried from the island.
The Name It First Experience
Jamaican families carry a culture that is louder, more textured, and more particular than any summary can hold. The Sunday kitchen. The way discipline and love arrived in the same sentence. The stories that got told at funerals and the ones that never did. Your Jamaican Family Story Journal preserves island stories, diaspora stories, and heritage stories — the things your family knows that no one else is going to write down. Record the recipes. Record the warnings. Record what your grandmother said when she thought no one was listening.
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Sample questions
- What story in your Jamaican family has been carried from the island that you want to preserve?
- What recipe, saying, or tradition from your family has never been written down?
- What name in your family lineage do you most want to record and pass on?
Research basis
Grounded in Caribbean diaspora identity research by Stuart Hall, Jamaican cultural preservation work by Rex Nettleford, and oral history methodology for Caribbean families.
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$7.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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