Family Heirloom Video Documentaries


To view a short excerpt from a documentary produced by the Memory Preserve, click here.

 

 

The MEMORY PRESERVE helps individuals and families preserve memories and history by recording stories and producing family heirloom video documentaries on DVD. Through interviews recorded with digital video, the MEMORY PRESERVE captures life stories and cherished memories. Our friendly and warm demeanor helps people feel at ease and encourages intriguing storytelling. The interviews are edited with photos and music to help family and friends jump back in time and understand and appreciate how previous generations lived. Appropriate styles of music are added, such as '30s & '40s or '60s & '70s, to enhance the stories of struggles and triumphs of romance, war, work, marriage, and family. The process takes approximately three weeks. The finished project, delivered on DVD, will be a legacy to share with family and friends, today and for generations to come. (Back)

 
 

 

A sample of questions that help jog memories:

  • When were you born and what are your earliest memories?
  • What kind of chores did you have?
  • How was your life different growing up without the conveniences and luxuries that exist today?
  • Tell about your school days.
  • Tell about your engagement and wedding day.
  • What was the best, most rewarding thing about raising kids?
  • What was the most important thing you wanted to teach your children?
  • What has been your greatest life lesson learned?
  • What do you consider your greatest achievement?
  • What are your family's most remembered folklore/stories?