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 readers may have similar such scrapbooks a...
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 scan quality. The top rated company ...
Read more ● Wednesday, March 12th, 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. Simple, practical gifts include a d...
Read more ● Friday, November 23rd, 2007
I have been playing around with a new online application called Kronomy. I’m not really ready to show the world my creation on there but let me tell you a bit about it. There is a concept called collective consciousness which came out of the French soc...
Read more ● Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Flickr photo: mimi.bowling We often hear clients complain they can’t remove their photos from those old inexpensive magnetic photo albums. Those are the ones with the pre-glued pages that you just stick the photos in and slide the plastic sleeve over t...
Read more ● Thursday, April 17th, 2008
My partner and good friend Isabelle MacCrimmon has just entered Mozy’s video contest. The rules are to create a video of your worst computer nightmare that cannot exceed 1 minute in length. Considering she and her husband Keith are big fans of Indiana J...
Read more ● Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Flickr photo:Kicks in New Orleans I am sitting here in Houston, waiting for Hurricane Ike to arrive. It’s 9AM and he’s not expected until around midnight but I’m nervous and not quite sure what to do. Arranging things around the house, most...
Read more ● Friday, September 12th, 2008
I was watching some news coverage of Hurricane Sandy a few days ago and there was a woman standing on the site of what was once her home, holding a battered and soggy wedding photo of her parents. She was sobbing, saying this was the only photo she could find...
Read more ● Thursday, November 15th, 2012
I am always mystified and intrigued by synchronicity and in my line of work, I hear some amazing stories. People reconnected after years of searching, letters found in floating bottles reunited with the the heirs of the intended recipient, people in casual c...
Read more ● Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
These days, many of us take photos with our phones and send them to each other via email or post them online to various photo sharing websites such as Flickr and Twitpic. I’ve also got photos on my Facebook profile and there’s some video clips of...
Read more ● Saturday, June 6th, 2009