I can create a one-of-a-kind, high quality family heirloom book to tell your family's story and inspire your relatives to learn about their ancestors and the stories from their past.
Photos and Documents - I can go through your boxes of pictures, articles, letters, recipes, yearbooks and diaries and organize them in a way that you can preserve and enjoy in a book or in albums. I will get to know your ancestors or relatives - some you didn't know you had! Imagine the fun of discovering your family’s history, and hearing stories you never knew.
Archive Mementos - I advise my clients to include photographs of mementos that have been passed down through generations. Interesting items such as jewelry, dishes, recipes, linens, books, plaques, artwork, medals, clothing, and other artifacts help illustrate the story of your ancestors. These items help a family tree blossom, and I can assist you in photographing them to include in your archive of memories.
Genealogy Research - I can research and find family documents that may fill in some blanks or help tell the story of your ancestors.
I love listening to family stories and conducting research on individual family members. My knack for finding old documents and photos will help me to build your family tree, through identifying the area where your ancestors lived and learning about life long ago, such as hardships, major events, commerce, religions, and prominent families. Experience has taught me the right questions to ask to start the process of rediscovering your family’s history, guiding us both to stories you may have never known.
I can sift through your boxes of pictures, articles, letters, recipes and diaries and organize them in a way that you can enjoy them in a book or in albums. I will get to know your ancestors or relatives and create a person from a pile of scrolls so you will get to know them too.
We can focus on one person and or a branch of the family and tell the story with photos.
We can create a family recipe book with family photos.
Customized sizes, book covers, layout, paper and design flexibility is always available.
Pricing varies depending on your preferences.
I can sit down with your family member(s) and interview them to get an oral history and turn it into a typed document or a photo book with the wonderful stories and history that you don’t have time to record.
Interview, asking open-ended questions that we generate together about family members, school, work, home life, neighbors, traditions, experiences, memories, holidays, vacations, memorable times.
Meet 5-10 times taking an oral history by recording and taking notes from a family member.
Provide a bio that can be a simple typed document or a book with photos.