Tributes & Video Biographies
Sharing Life Stories, Connecting Generations, Preserving Legacies
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 rea...
Read more ● Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Flickr photo: catcetera In January of 2008, Money Magazine wrote an article comparing 6 of the most popular scanning services. They sent 40 prints to the six different companies and rated them on cost, turnaround time and...
Read more ● Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Most people that have families take on the onerous and reflective task of writing a will which provides instructions for the distribution and disposable of our physical assets after we die. Some are very complicated and in...
Read more ● Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Flickr photo: WonderlaneWe often do large photo archiving projects for families that involve scanning and creating digital records of photos albums, boxes of loose photos, newspaper articles, certificates and other fam...
Read more ● Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Flickr photo: Sthomas01A storyboard is an essential tool for laying out a video or film project to communicate the look of a piece, to show how a story or plot unfolds and to organize the sequence of scenes before any...
Read more ● Friday, September 5th, 2008
Gordon BellWhat would it look like if you had a computer with every single memory stored on it forever? You would be able to access every webpage you’ve ever looked at, every email you’ve read, every pho...
Read more ● Friday, April 4th, 2008
This week marks the beginning of the holiday gift-giving season. Perhaps you are wondering what you might give to a fellow family history researcher or genealogist, or maybe your family and friends are asking you for hints...
Read more ● Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Flickr photo: pboomerxA Hope Chest was originally used as a dowry. It was property that a woman owned and brought into her marriage. Some women could not find a suitable husband, for various factors; therefore, the ...
Read more ● Monday, November 24th, 2008
I spend a lot of time flying back and forth between Houston and Los Angeles to visit my family. The flight is 3 hours and last year I made a commitment to spend that three hour time period working on sorting, identifyin...
Read more ● Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Flickr photo: Chas.™Last week I blogged about how I have been organizing and tagging all my digital photos during frequent 3 hour flights. I received several comments and questions from readers about what to do wit...
Read more ● Friday, February 4th, 2011