Legacy Multimedia Blog

Musings on personal history, video biographies and other digital tributes.

Abundant Living Conference, March 2, Camp Allen Texas

Posted on March 8, 2010 - Filed Under Family Memories, Personal History, Preserving Memories | Leave a Comment

This past week I was a presenter at the Abundant Living Conference held at Camp Allen Conference & Retreat Center, a beautiful site located in the Piney Woods about an hour north of Houston. This three-day conference gathered some 200 people that ranged in age from late 50s to some in there 90s who came [...]

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Using The Internet to Research Your Family History

Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under Family Memories, Geneaology, Personal History, Preserving Memories | Leave a Comment

Flickr photo:iQoncept

I am constantly amazed by the Internet. It’s not like it’s something new but I regularly find myself wowed when I’m able to find something so easily, when only a few years ago it may have required days of research and possibly a cross-continent trip.
Yesterday I was at the home of a client that [...]

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Anatomy of an Archival Scrapbook Project

Posted on January 19, 2010 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Personal History, Photo Restoration, Photos & Snapshots, Preserving Memories | 1 Comment

We are in the process of wrapping up a large scrapbook project for a client that has been such a delight to work on that I wanted to share the project and the process we’ve gone through as I believe many of my readers may have similar such scrapbooks and may wonder what can be [...]

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PBS “Faces of America” To Ask “Where Do You Come From?”

Posted on January 11, 2010 - Filed Under Family Memories, Geneaology, Personal History | Leave a Comment

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., noted scholar and biographer has a new, four-part PBS documentary to air February 10 – March 3 from 8-9 PM on your local PBS Channel.
Focusing on 12 known US personalities such as Mario Batali, Dr. Oz, Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma and other well known names, the documentary uses genetic genealogy [...]

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Holiday Ideas for Creating Family History Projects

Posted on December 18, 2009 - Filed Under Family Memories, Personal History, Preserving Memories | Leave a Comment

Flickr photo: Alexcentric

This is the time of year when we gather with our families and close friends and community to celebrate the holidays. It’s a special time of year often accompanied by many traditions, some of them passed down many generations, some of them new as we blend families or add new family members who [...]

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The Value of Visual Storytelling Through Video Biographies

Posted on December 8, 2009 - Filed Under Family Memories, Personal History, Preserving Memories, Video Tributes | 1 Comment

Flickr photo: philcoyne

Last week the American Chronicle published a beautiful article about what it is we do here at Legacy Multimedia.
While it’s always great to get PR, I particularly like this article because I felt that writer Pam Vetter asked the right questions and framed all the responses into a context that really gets [...]

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Days With My Father by Philip Toledano

Posted on November 23, 2009 - Filed Under Family Memories, Personal History, Photos & Snapshots | Leave a Comment

My son recently sent me a link to a beautiful website called “Days With My Father.” It is a beautiful and sentimental photo gallery done by a professional photographer with his writings about dealing with the final stages of his father’s Alzheimers Disease.
As someone whose work it is to preserve memories, I found this [...]

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Lily Koppel’s “The Red Leather Diary”

Posted on November 13, 2009 - Filed Under Family Memories, Personal History, Preserving Memories | 1 Comment

If you follow me on any of the social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, then you know a couple of weeks ago I spent the week in Valley Forge Pennsylvania at the Association of Personal Historians annual conference. It was an amazing five days (plus I tacked on another two to do some [...]

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2009 Association of Personal Historians Conference in Valley Forge

Posted on November 2, 2009 - Filed Under Family Memories, Networking, Personal History, Preserving Memories, Social Media | 7 Comments

If you follow me on any of the social media platforms such as Twitter (@stefanitwyford) or Facebook, you’ll know that I spent the previous week at the 2009 Association of Personal Historians Conference in Valley Forge Pennsylvania.
Having never been to the Philadelphia area, I was particularly excited to be spending time at Valley Forge, the [...]

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Memory and Craft

Posted on October 13, 2009 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Personal History, Preserving Memories | 2 Comments

Flickr photo: josefnovak33

I was recently watching “Craft in America“, PBS’s excellent series covering the major influences that play a part in each artist’s craft. The particularly episode I watched was episode V – Process, that looked at how an artist achieves the skill to become proficient. It profiled several artists about how they have [...]

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