Tributes & Video Biographies
Sharing Life Stories, Connecting Generations, Preserving Legacies
If you follow me on any of the social media platforms such as Twitter (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...
Read more ● Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Flickr photo: Meg Part 2 of a series about capturing the joy of family events on video Last week I introduced this series about creating videos to capture the joy of family events and special occasions like weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and holiday get-togethe...
Read more ● Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Flickr photo:jambo13 A couple of weeks ago I was reading a blog by Keith Ferrazzi, marketing guru and well known author of Never Eat Alone, and Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time. He had a poignant post, a tribute to his Aunt Rose, who had died t...
Read more ● Friday, December 21st, 2007
Flickr photo:mweitkamp In the news yesterday is a story about a couple who are engaged and planning to wed soon. What makes this story really unusual is that they have the same name, Kelly Hildebrandt, and they met on Facebook. One night (female) Kelly was bored and...
Read more ● Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
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 storytelli...
Read more ● Saturday, November 10th, 2007
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 ...
Read more ● Sunday, November 11th, 2007
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...
Read more ● Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
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Read more ● Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Photo courtesy: geni.com I’ve mentioned Geni.com a few times in this blog. It’s one of my favorite social networking tools that enable its users to find and stay in touch with their relatives as they capture and share their family’s history. This pas...
Read more ● Sunday, July 27th, 2008