The Story behind: The Calkins Family History Book

Books created for Colleen with all of her documentation and research that she did to join the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Colonial Daughters. It has all of the genealogy back 10 generations to the year 1600. They are documented with ship and immigration records, birth, death and marriage certificates, letters. She included
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Family Memories- Make Them, Collect Them & Share Them

Preserving your family memories is something that is always put on the back burner. You will work on it later….when the kids go to school, when the kids go to college, when I retire, when I have free time, when it’s cold outside.  We always put it off to some later day….well that day very
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Sharing & Reminiscing About the Good ‘ol Days

Reach back to the past and reminisce with your parents and share the past with the next generation.
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Protecting your memories from disaster

After a disaster, like the tornados that hit us a few weeks ago, we are foremost thankful for the safety of our family and neighbors. What you hear people say while looking upon the wreckage of their home is that, of all of the valuables lost or damaged, what we value the most are our
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Preserving Vacation Memories

After you return home, you will wish your trip would have lasted forever, but you’re sure you’ll remember all the good times you had for the rest of your life. But unless you have a photographic memory, some of them will fade away. We suggest recording all the special – and even some of what
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Preserving School-day Memories

Last month we shared ideas on how to document memories of your summer vacation. This month we turn to preserving those school-day memories, whether for your children, grandchildren or even yourself. How you go about this project depends on what stage your kiddos are at. If they are just starting school, then you can “do
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Preserving Childhood Journaling

It’s a cliché that’s all too true: “Children grow up way too fast.” This series of articles will give you a variety of ideas of how to preserve all those childhood memories and document how they change through the years. This month we will look at Journaling.  Journaling is a very effective method for preserving
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Family memories over the holidays

Opportunities abound for you to capture, share, give, and make memories over the holidays as your family gathers together. Capture: Ask the family elders…or everyone for that matter…to document some memory from their life. Whether it was grandpa’s years of training a trick horse, grandma’s stories of how she raised 4 young children while grandpa was away
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Renting out a Kodak Slide Projector

We rent out slide projectors like this Kodak 4200 Slide Projector.  It has a unique attachment that you can use to view a stack of slides individually without having to load them up in a projector.  You can use the Kodak 4200 Slide Projector to preview your slides before you have the slides scanned so
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I want someone to make a book out of my blog.

Problem solved!  We can change your blog into a book. We have had several clients come in who have enjoyed a trip of a life time and have wanted to capture their blog to memorialize it  since it was a perfect compilation of their thoughts and their best photos.  Some years ago, a client had
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