Long Lost Family & The Nixon Tapes

Vicki has been declared the family memory keeper and she is buried under a collection of films and print photos. She brought them in to Leave A Legacy to start digitizing the family history to share with everyone else.  We started with an 8mm film reel of when her neighborhood friends put on their own production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.”  It’s quite something for a neighborhood to put on.  See if you can identify Lucy, Snoopy, Sally and Charlie Brown.  Next was digitizing a collection of photos, including a photo restoration.  All it needed was a quick spot removal and adjusted contrast, but it made a big difference!   Got to love those classic old hairstyles!  Now they have their legacy digital media to keep.
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Inspiration from Recent Legacy Projects.

We remember with excitement all of the many projects we completed for clients over the past month. Thinking of all of the joy that was brought to many homes when families received the gift of memories. Here are some of the interesting projects from last month: Jamie had a VHS of her social studies project from school when she interviewed her grandparents. Now she wants to gift the digital files to her mother and aunt.
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Variety of project stories & where to recycle old media

Les brought in some more audio cassette tapes that he recorded of him reciting his poems.  He had us transfer them from cassette to CD. I loved the title of his disc “More of Les” (as we have done several for him). Listen to this clip about the Bee Keeper’s Daughter. Linda brought in a
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What to do with your old media and equipment once you have it all transferred by Leave A Legacy, Inc.

Donate your old working VCRs and video cameras to Leave A Legacy, Inc. Click here to download and printable copy of this blog. Other old electronics can be dropped off at Best Buy for recycling…free! Recycle your old media and equipment: Ship to Green disk 25 pounds for $15 and then$0.50/# for more  greendisk.com to
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Explosions, Story Telling and Homemade Bread

Teresa brought in a collection of 74 audio cassettes to be transferred to mp3 files.  The cassettes are all recordings made of her dad reading classic books.  He is very expressive.  They have copies of all of the books to follow along.  These mp3 files will now be played for his great grandchildren. What a great treasure to pass down through the generations. Check out his wonderful voice as he introduces the book "All Creatures Great and Small" that he is going to read.
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Ripping and Copying DVDs and CDs

Ripping or copying DVDs starts at $10/disc. Ripping CDs starts at $4.50/disc Copying CDs start at $8/disc. You either have a collection of DVDs and want another copy of them to share with someone else in the family or you have a collection of DVDs that you want to turn into digital files on your
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Where memories are preserved…..stories shared…

family treasures, voices from the past, historical documents scanned and contrast improved, puppy and baby images, photos with a great story to tell.
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Some recent project highlights

Rob brought in some old 8mm silent family home movies to be transferred to digital files on a flash drive. They look to be to be late 6os and early 70s. Check out this quick clip complete with babies, puppies, classic cars, hair rollers, pointy eye glasses, house dresses, and old fashioned edge trimming the yard all in 1 minute. Bring back any blasts from the past for you?
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Letters made into Memory Books

                                            Family Letters: My mother had collected (in several locations) the family letters that she had written through the years. After she passed I compiled all of the letters and added letters from before my parents
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1950’s collection of photos includes the balanced rock from the Garden of the God’s and other fascinating projects and stories

Jessica brought in a video tape for repair and transfer to mp4 file on a flash drive. The video tape had been stuck in her camera but when removed by the client it had crumpled and torn. She only wanted the first part which is a baby video not the later part that had been recorded over. The unwanted recording was made when the baby was playing with the camera. That baby is now graduating from high school and they want to share this baby video at his graduation.
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