A Family’s Legacy connects a family across generations and keeps a family’s story alive. One way to ensure your Family Legacy remains meaningful is by preserving the stories of one generation for the next in a Family Legacy Video.
A Legacy Video preserves a family’s stories and history though filmed interviews with one or more family members. The interviews are edited and woven together with family photos, documents, maps and other memorabilia. Titles, chapters, music and more are added throughout. The result is a beautiful “moving portrait” that preserves a family’s legacy, a modern-day heirloom families can pass on for generations.
Preserving family stories for younger generations to know has a lasting impact…
Preserving Family Legacy
- When family stories and history aren’t passed from one generation to the next, they are often lost forever.
- While ancestors names and dates may be found in public records, it is their personality, everyday achievements, sorrows and life lessons that make up the intimacy of the family experience. These only survive in the stories we pass from one generation to the next.
- Learning how a family member lived through an event such as a war, The Great Depression or immigrating to a new country, brings history to life with new relevance while teaching valuable life lessons to younger generations.
- Family stories are often full of humor, adventure and poignancy. Storytelling can become a favorite part of family gatherings and the family experience.
- When children hear stories of a parent or grandparent as a child, it helps them connect on a more personal level.
- Preserving family stories will increase the chances that future generations will value and carry on the tradition of documenting, adding to and retelling the stories through new eyes in every generation.
Family stories are too important to trust to memory. By preserving them today, you ensure your family legacy will remain vibrant and alive for your children, grandchildren and generations beyond.
To learn more about capturing your family stories in a Legacy Video, visit FamilyTreeVideo.com.
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