IT WAS NOT THAT LONG AGO that families would sit around a fireplace or dinner table and elders would pass along their collective wisdom. They would share their family’s oral history and entertain their children and grandchildren with stories that would ultimately shape their faith, beliefs, and character. By knowing their own family’s history, those children understood their place in the world. Their legacy was a North Star they could follow. Their legacy was their internal compass.

TODAY, as people change jobs, parents get divorced, and kids are shuffled around – the elders rarely have the opportunity to teach their traditions, share their wisdom, and pass along those important family stories. Recent generations of kids have more activities, more gadgets, and many more distractions. They have everything but a deep understanding of their family’s history. And those priceless photographs, antique documents, passports, ledgers, love letters, and recipes keep fading and getting more brittle everyday. They probably won’t survive for a next generation to embrace.

THE STORY KEEPER IS KEY to preserving their family’s history. They collect, organize and identify family photos. They know the history of the family heirlooms, they protect the family Bible, and they have a general knowledge about their ancestors. It’s a role with responsibilities , but without a story keeper, a family’s priceless history grows dimmer every day. The story keeper is the real hero of this story. They once-and-for-all protect and preserve their family’s history.

BABY BOOMER’S ARE NATURAL STORY KEEPERS. After the end of World War II, children born between 1946-1964 (Baby Boomers) enjoyed a new, unbridled optimism in America. Their parents had moved to the suburbs, worked hard, and started families. Later, these kids – the Boomers – went to college, launched businesses, traveled, and started their own families. Adult children know the sacrifices their parents made and know their parents’ and grandparents’ stories are the prequel to their own story. And it’s the Boomer’s children who want to know about their family’s authentic history. They want to know about their family’s own immigration story. Baby Boomers are the natural bridge between the generations.

HOWEVER, MOST BOOMERS DON’T HAVE THE TIME or know-how to take on this important task. Almost every family has made some effort to organize pictures and preserve family heirlooms. Many have searched “genealogy” online and some have joined Ancestry.com and grazed through the site. Others have bought archival storage boxes and started scrapbooks. But eventually the size and scope of the project and the time required becomes overwhelming, people get frustrated, and their efforts are reluctantly and slowly boxed up and stored away.

Meet the Personal Historians, Video Biographers, and Genealogists at McCamish Media

THE PROFESSIONALS AT McCAMISH MEDIA can organize personal memoirs, help tell one’s life story, and assist in exploring a family’s history. Team members at McCamish Media are trusted personal historians trained to step into a storyteller’s life, ask the right questions about family background, ancestors, events and the important experiences that shaped their family’s legacy. All interviews are private and by bringing in our production team, the family dynamics that often complicate these efforts, and often prevent their completion, are neutralized.

MANY FAMILIES HAVE BEGUN THE PROCESS. WE CAN HELP FINISH IT. After the initial consultation we can determine how many photos, recordings, diaries, letters, heirlooms and other assets can be used to tell the story. We have more than 22 years of printing and publishing experience. This is critical when digitizing, retouching and preserving your one-of-a-kind photographs to be used in your book or video. There is tremendous value in preserving valuable old photos, documents, and signatures before they deteriorate any further. We have extensive expertise organizing the production process, determining a timeline, and completing your project on schedule.

YOU ARE THE KEY. By having your family’s history explored, recorded and preserved you will be honoring the lives of your parents, grandparents, and ancestors. You are recognizing and celebrating their lives, the sacrifices they’ve made and for the person they’ve helped you become. And for your children and future generations you will give them a solid foundation on which they will build their own life stories. When they read storybooks and history books they will no longer be just about other fantastic people, places and events. They will know about their own family explorers, what they accomplished, and of their role in American history. Once children discover where they came from and who they came from they will forever identify with their family’s heritage and they will be proud of their family name.

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• Video Biographies   •  Tribute Videos   •  Memorial Videos  •  Genealogy Research  •  Family Trees  •  Lifetime Travel Maps  •  Memory Books  •  Veteran Memorials

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