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Pictures and Stories in the News
It was so fun to see this in the Salt Lake Tribune. Margarete (Maggie) Hicken, at 104, has a sharper memory than most of our middle-aged friends! She is a delightful lady with a positive attitude, and...
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Helping Your Parents Tell Their Life Stories
OnMy parents, looking uncharacteristically serious on their wedding day.e Thanksgiving, a few years after my mother died, my father regaled us at the dinner table with the hilarious and slightly...
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Write a Memoir While on Vacation?
Picture it now: you, lounging on a striped deck chair, your new straw hat shielding you from the sun glinting off the soft ocean waves. You’ve left your cell phone in the cabin and your worries on the...
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Pictures and Stories in the News
It was so fun to see this in the Salt Lake Tribune. Margarete (Maggie) Hicken, at 104, has a sharper memory than most of our middle-aged friends! She is a delightful lady with a positive attitude, and...
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Connections - A Childhood Home
The Harvey family in 1942. The Harveys lived in "our" home 70 years ago; they are seated in the living room. Julie Harvey Tuckfield is the blonde on the left. Bud, the tall youth in the center, built...
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How to Scan Photos for Print
Scanning at too low a resolution will cause your images to look pixelated in your book.Scanning for a printed publication requires a whole different set of parameters than for use on a website or...
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A Read Down Memory Lane: Lessons from Your Former Self
A story I wrote in elementary school.Have you ever stumbled across an old story you wrote in the first grade? Listen to this great piece on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" today. Guest Jim Sollisch talked...
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We need your advice! Pretty please?
We need your advice!What is your greatest obstacle when it comes to telling your life stories?Nearly everyone we meet thinks it’s a great idea to do a memoir or personal history. But so few people...
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Top Ten Reasons to Convert Old Film to Digital
This week we have a guest blog post from Kristen Harding of Larsen Digital. Although we work primarily with still images in books, most of our clients have old reels of film lying around that they...
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Cars vs. Dresses - the Random Nature of Memory
Your first date -- you remember the crepe de chine; he remembers the Chevy. Ask any couple to tell the story of how they met, and you'll usually hear two very different versions of the same story....
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3 Design Tricks to Make Your Book More Readable
A compelling book design will draw your reader in to the story. Now that you've spent all this time on writing your life stories, you don't want them to disappear into the...
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Why Printed Books Will Never Die
People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, not merely an electronic version, believe that the objects themselves are sacred. Some people may find this attitude baffling, arguing that...
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How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo
Here's the scoop on emailing a photo from your computer, smart phone, or tablet at its original resolution. What is the point of having a camera (or digital device) with ginormous giga-megapixels if...
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The Business of Family History
Here I am at Rootstech 2014, spreading the gospel of storytelling. We were thrilled to get a call from Deseret News reporter Trent Toone last month, who had seen us speak at Rootstech and wanted to...
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Presenting at the UGA South Davis Family History Event
UGA South Davis Family History Fair April 25-26, Woods Cross High School We will be presenting at next week's UGA South Davis Family History Fair. Hope to see you there! We will be teaching three...
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Tags and Captions - How to Label Your Digital Photos Using Metadata
You are conscientious about writing on the back of a photo print. But what do you do with your digital photos? What is metadata anyway, and why do I need it? Well, I'm gonna tell ya. It's simpler than...
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Making a Book of Personal Memories
Cosmic Runner by Peter Max, my favorite artist at the time. © Peter Max 2013 Tom and I talk and teach about this all the time: the importance of story. In our classes and presentations, in webinars,...
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The Easy Way to Organize Your Digital Photos - the "Sock Drawer" Method
Here's a low-stress way to organize your digital photos. No special software required. I know, I know, I need to get those hundreds (thousands?) of digital photos on my computer (and smartphones and...
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Is It Narcissistic to Write a Memoir?
Is it narcissistic to write a memoir? "I don't want to brag about myself." It's a refrain Tom and I hear often, especially from those of a certain generation. Taught to be polite, self-sacrificing,...
View ArticleObituary as Biography: the Saga of Harry Weathersby Stamps
Just to make your Friday a little better, here is a hilarious and touching obituary that was published last year in The Sun Herald in Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi. He wrote it with his daughter before...
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