Just as your family history is unique, your method of preserving it can also be unique. The choice is yours.

Most of our clients choose hardcover or soft-cover books. We always recommend books because they are portable and durable. One hundred years from now your great-grandchildren will be thrilled to have that book, no matter what technology has come and gone in the meantime.

The majority of Treasured Legacies' books begin by recording guided conversations with one or two members of the older generation. Recording those stories while grandparents still remember the past is most urgent. When all their memories have been told in their own voice, the audio cassettes or CD's are yours to treasure, whether or not you choose to have a book.

The second step in producing a family history is transcribing the oral history recordings word-for-word. This step is sometimes a stop-off place for a family that has its own budding writer. Transcriptions can be spiral bound on archival paper or transferred to a CD-ROM.

More often, clients go on to the third step. Treasured Legacies shapes family memories from the transcriptions into an illustrated book with photos, maps, family tree, news clippings and recipes. Our top-flight designers, printers and bookbinders produce volumes you can be proud of.

If you prefer, we can capture your older generation telling their stories on video or DVD, with perhaps the family homestead in the background as well as pictured milestones in their lives.

Letters and diaries are pure gold for personal historians. Letters tend to be spontaneous and candid, chock full of details about life at the time they were written. Diaries speak from the heart. A diary or a collection of letters can be privately published as the backbone of a memoir or — especially when gift-giving time is looming — a precious stand-alone book.

Consultation about your need is free. For a customized quote, please contact us: contactus@treasuredlegacies.com
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