Every now and then we enjoy comparing 'then' and 'now.' The families in this short film did exactly that and shared the results with all of us on the internet.  Fun!  Click here to watch. Thanks to those families that shared!

We've been encouraging you to scan your photos.  Once you have them scanned, think of the things you can do with them in addition to saving them for future generations. Calendars, graduation films, wedding slide show, birthday gifts, even memorials - and of course, your family history video!

Digitize your precious memories whether photos or films.  Re-enjoy! And if you get the notion to re-create as these families did, feel free to share with us!

Isn't it fascinating how things have stayed the same for 100 years yet also how they have changed? 

What will we look like in 2115 as we step out for a nice day on the town with a friend?  As we look back over our family history, pause every once in a while to compare it to life today.  Then consider what that might look like for our future generations.  Are you taking steps to share yesterday and today with tomorrow?  If you find a simple picture of your family's past, find a comparable one of your family present and place them side by side  for your family future.  Or have the older ones dissolve into the newer ones in your Family History Video.  Add dates and names. Encourage your future family to do the same for their future families of 2215.  Don't you wonder how we'll pass on those holograms?!?

Here at Treasured Archives, we are pretty excited about our growth over the past year. Today we reached 26,000 views on just one of our many YouTube videos. How to Transfer Your MiniDV Tapes to Digital or DVD.

We truly hope that we have been able to help at least a few of those viewers save their precious memories by digitizing them into a medium that carries them forward instead of leaving them in a shoebox forgotten.

We are grateful to our audience and encouraged by their comments.  Thank you for your support!

You have learned so much since you started on your journey to research your heritage.  You've probably surprised yourself at the things you've been able to uncover through the technologies you had to learn.  You've broken walls that you thought you'd never be able to break to reveal a past in your roots you never would have imagined.  You have so much to pass on to your following generations!  Be proud!

But don't stop there.  Compile your research, your pictures, and use the technologies we have today to capture the last generation and your generation.  We can capture family and their stories on video now so easily using a myriad of simple techniques.  Smartphones, camcorders, or even many of our photography cameras all have the capability to capture video.  And if a picture paints a thousand words, thinks of what 24 pictures per second paints!  

Capture the family stories told by those who lived them.  Those people and those stories are the roots of the future.  Give future family genealogists a treat.  Learn just a little more technology and give them your story in video.  Yes, you can!

Part 13 of our ongoing series is something unexpected.  Let's say you have a grandfather that served in the American Revolutionary War.  If you know which regiment he served, you could add his travels through the colonies using this animation.  

This video shows you where to find it, how to get your copy and how to add it to your Family History Video. Click here.

So many resolutions!! So little time!!  So which resolution will lasts beyond 2015?  What transcends a year in our lives?  THAT’S worth expending some time and effort. Collecting the family history and passing it on lasts not only beyond February or March 2015 but beyond our lifetime!

What if you could ask your great-great grandfather what his resolutions for 1915 were?  What if you could see his expression as he told you about them? Does his smile come easily?  Is his disposition open and friendly or closed and quiet?  Does he count them off with his fingers just like you do? What if his laugh while remembering his unmet resolutions of 1914 reminded you of your father’s laugh?  What if you could compare New Year’s resolutions lists –his and yours- one time?  THAT’S the gift you can give to your great-great-grandchildren!

They didn’t have video capabilities 3 generations ago.  We do now.  Let’s use it! 

Let’s resolve that this is the year that we compile our family history video to be passed on to our generations to come!

They lovingly took lots of photos but they are slides!  Who pulls out a slide projector any more?!?   Turn those memories into digital photos with a Wolverine.  No computer necessary to capture to SD card so they can do it themselves.  Go to our Links page to get a Wolverine!

What Mom and Dad really want! You can't buy their memories but you can save them for them!  Do it yourself!  Go to our Links page and download your own Gift Certificate so you have something to give.  You can personalize it! Then click on the Roxio VHS to DVD and order one for yourself.  You'll need a way to play the tapes (camcorder with a play mode or a VHS player.)  Then hook it up to your computer using the Roxio Easy VHS to DVD dongle and capture the memories on their tapes. You can make them into a DVD and you'll have the added bonus of a digitized copy to use in your Family History Video.