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A TRUE STORY Like many baby boomers raised in the ‘60s, I took little interest in the stories of my family history while growing up. Try as they may, my parents were unable to stir much interest in me to embrace the rich heritage of my family’s past. My, how times change. When my father passed away in 1995, I inherited his cherished photo album, filled with pictures from his years as a bomber pilot in World War II. I also took possession of two large boxes filled with other family treasures, including a family Bible printed in 1816 and hundreds of family photos, some of which were printed on the old daguerreotype, a silver plate that was used for the very earliest photographs taken in the early 1800’s. When my son began going through the old material (he had hit a ripe old age of 22 at the time), he became utterly fascinated with the challenge of trying to connect the names on our family tree with the faces in the photographs. And he began asking a lot of questions about his family. This experience with my son awakened in me an interest in my family history that my parents were unable unlock. It also served to illustrate to me that “Family History” is not something that’s just for old people. Every generation is curious about where they came from. If you ask them, your children would probably tell you they’d love to have known and been able to hear the stories from your grandparents. This is precisely the gift you can leave behind for future generations of your family in the form of a video biography. Randy Brown
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