From Nashville - Listen
Posted on November 11, 2007 - Filed Under Networking, Personal History | Leave a Comment
The theme of this year’s Association of Personal Historians conference is “Listen.” When I looked up the word listen in the dictionary, the main definition was “hear” although there was a footnote explainig that: “to listen is to try to hear; to hear is simply to perceive with the ear.” I’m glad they added that [...]
Read More..>>From Nashville - It’s the lovin’ of the game
Posted on November 10, 2007 - Filed Under Networking, Personal History | Leave a Comment
I am writing this post from my hotel room in Franklin Tennessee, just outside Nashville, where I am attending the Association of Personal Historians annual conference. I’ve just wrapped up a whirlwind day of workshops, networking, video shares, personal storytelling in the hallways and the usual conference buzz of mediocre hotel food, strange mattress, etc. [...]
Read More..>>AMPAS: Archive Before it’s Too Late
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under Media Archiving | Leave a Comment
How many of you have favorite movies or music on 8-track, VHS or Betamax tapes but no longer have a player for these formats? How many of the VHS tapes that contain precious family memories still will be accessible after another 20 or 30 years? How many of your digital photographs are a hard-drive crash [...]
Read More..>>Researching Your Family History - Part 2
Posted on November 8, 2007 - Filed Under Personal History | 1 Comment
This is a continuation of my post from last week on researching your family history.
There are also many other blogs that focus on tracing family histories, restoring old photos, converting aging materials to newer formats and sharing your fondest memories with others online and off. One particularly good web site is George G. Morgan’s Along [...]
Geni Family Tree
Posted on November 7, 2007 - Filed Under Networking, Personal History | 3 Comments
My friend Ed Schipul just told me about this amazing website, Geni.com. Now I am totally addicted to it.
What Geni is, is a family networking tool that allows you to create a family tree using an extremely simple web interface. When you set up your tree, you add people and then Geni will email [...]
Family History Cookbooks
Posted on November 6, 2007 - Filed Under Family Memories, Personal History | 2 Comments
I don’t know if this is a new trend or not but I’ve been noticing an abundance of family memoir cookbooks. These cookbooks will typically serve up recipes that have been passed down from one generation to another along with photos of the family, slices of daily life and dollops of family history.
If you’re family [...]
The Ultimate Gift
Posted on November 5, 2007 - Filed Under Video Tributes | 1 Comment
I watched the movie, “The Ultimate Gift” this past weekend and really loved it. If you are unfamilair with it, it’s a movie adaptation of Jim Stovall’s popular novel (link is on the right in our Recommended Reads).
It’s basically the story of a wealthy and priviledged young man whose grandfather dies. At the reading of [...]
Researching Your Family History - Part 1
Posted on November 3, 2007 - Filed Under Geneaology, Personal History | 1 Comment
Tracing your roots, discovering your origins, getting to know your ancestors and learning of your cultural past is a richly rewarding experience that can benefit you and your family for many generations to come. This is especially important in today’s highly mobile, far-flung, often impersonal society where addresses change constantly and the once stable, multi-generational [...]
Read More..>>Welcome to our new blog
Posted on November 1, 2007 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
With the launch of our new, improved web site, Legacy Multimedia is proud to present the inaugural edition of our new blog.
In the past we have maintained a bi-monthly e-newsletter called The Souvenir to provide helpful hints and tips about preserving your family history, archiving your photos and videos, and capturing your life stories for [...]
