Category: Family Heritage

Categories: Family Heritage, Family Legacy, Movies

Tags: family history, family legacy movies

July 19, 2013

Planting Seeds

I’ve been pondering the results of my day at the Senior Resource Fair earlier this week. It seems the majority of my activity during the day was planting seeds–talking to people who visited my table about family legacy movies and how important they are to help families preserve and remember special family memories as well as family history. ... Read more ›
Categories: Family Heritage, Family Legacy

March 17, 2013

Last Wishes Video

In general, people don’t want to talk about death and dying. But it is part of life and will happen to all of us eventually. One way of making sure your final wishes are known is to leave a “Last Wishes Video” for your family. The following videos are the first and second parts of three parts of the video that Eric made for his wife. They are... Read more ›
Categories: Family Heritage, Family Legacy, Movies

December 3, 2012

Sample Family Legacy Movie

This family legacy movie was created in stages. We first converted an old VHS tape to DVD. Next we recorded Meredith talking to her family explaining what was in the movie, describing some of the history of San Jose and pointing out family members in their younger years. Then we put it all together! As you can tell from the movie Meredith is tal... Read more ›
Categories: Family Heritage, Fun with video, Movies

August 11, 2012

I’m visiting my Mom and want to take video of her. What should I do?

A friend recently told me: “My Mom is getting up in years and I don’t have any videos of her. I was so inspired by my conversations with you about family legacy movies I went out and bought a small video camera to take on my vacation to visit her. Now what?” So, I gave her a few tips. 1. First, use a tripod for your camera, or set it on a ... Read more ›
Categories: Family Heritage, Movies, Specials, VHS to DVD

November 10, 2011

Holiday special for 2011

Announcing this year’s Holiday special. Buy one, get one free! Have us convert one VHS tape containing some of your favorite family memories to DVD at regular price and get a DVD copy free. Do you still have precious family movies on the original VHS tapes? How’s the color? Are the tapes in good shape? Or have they ... Read more ›
Categories: Family Heritage, Movies, Specials, VHS to DVD

November 10, 2011

Holiday special for 2011

Announcing this year’s Holiday special. Buy one, get one free!

Announcing this year’s Holiday special. Buy one, get one free! Have us convert one VHS tape containing some of your favorite family memories to DVD at regular price and get a DVD copy free.

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