History Archives - Family Tree Video

What’s Your Story?

As a Family Legacy Video producer I hear the most interesting stories! Every family has a story! What’s your story?

See names more common in times past. Old names for men like Chauncey or for women like Winifred.

Everyone has a favorite amusement park from their youth but if you lived in the Chicago area before 1967, Riverview was likely yours.

Travel back in time with footage of Chicago in the 1940s. From Wrigley Field to the Stockyards. Chicago 1940s.

Heatwave! How did our Grandparents stay cool before air conditioning? See tips from those who experienced it first-hand.

What are Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, CDVs & Cabinet Cards? Discover Early Photographs, 1840s-1900.

Watch the Chicago Cubs play baseball at Wrigley Field in this 1938 home movie. Chicago History,

See 1930s slang that were popular during that time.

The 1940 census provides a snapshot of what life was like in America during the years of the Great Depression and WWII.

Daguerreotype is one of the earliest forms of photography, popular in the 1840s.