Family Movie Story Books

05/15/2025

There's one main reason most people NEVER publish their family history book. Avoiding that reason and walking through the steps that successful grandmothers, grandfathers, aunties, and uncles get through in publishing their books is the subject of our free online workshop today at 10 pacific: Publishing family history books.

Free online workshop to learn skills and strategies for finally getting your family history book published.

04/15/2025

As our parents age, we often seek meaningful ways to honor their lives and preserve their stories. Perhaps we’re looking for a rich end of life legacy project that will engage them and help them find the meaning and purpose from their own lives lived. One profound method is assisting them in creating a "Family Book Done For You"—a professionally crafted narrative that captures their memories, experiences, and wisdom for future generations.

Every family has unique stories that define its identity. Documenting these narratives ensures that the richness of your family’s heritage isn’t lost over time.

Engaging in the storytelling process fosters deeper connections between generations. It allows children and grandchildren to understand their roots, fostering a sense of belonging and continuity.

Creating a family book is a tribute to your parents’ lives, acknowledging their experiences, challenges, and achievements. It’s a way to celebrate their journey and the legacy they leave behind.

Family Book Done For You as a rich end of life legacy project that will engage elderly parents and help them find the meaning and purpose from their own lives lived.

04/02/2025

Who are your Grandparents?

Join our private Facebook group Project Community Family Movie Story Books and share who your grandparents. This will be useful for you as you prepare to feature them in your own family history book.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/projectcommunityfamilymoviestorybooks

03/06/2025

Are you dreaming about publishing a book about your ancestors and family history? Have you got young grandchildren or great grandchildren and you want a powerful, nurturing book for bed time stories?

A custom family history book that tells the stories of your parents, grandparents and their parents gives those kids a way to absorb and engage your family’s unique ancestral creative energy. For those kids, knowing the stories of who they came from could likely give them positive encouragement and real role models that might just benefit their lives.

The purpose of this free 60 minute online workshop is to support you or your parents during the process of publishing your family history book. You’re welcome at this workshop at any stage in the process, even before you get started. You’ll find this workshop useful if you are going to self-publish or have someone else do the work for you.

At this interactive workshop you'll learn about:

• How to sort all your family history materials for a book project
• A simple technique to actually make your family tree useful
• The secret to efficient (but not endless) research
• The correct way to digitize old paper photos so they look great in print
• The easiest way to organize your digital assets
• The simplest way to gather family history stories for your book
• Two tried-and-true storytelling methods
• Ten essential and easy-to-create components in a family book
• Printing, sharing, selling and shipping

https://familymoviestorybooks.com/publishing-family-history-books/

02/05/2025

Organizing and Curating Paper Images and Documents for your family history story book or movie.

In this conversation, family historian Cory Bretz and family book designer Barbi Braude discuss the challenges of organizing and curating family history materials, including photos and documents. They provide practical tips for sorting and digitizing these materials, emphasizing the importance of preserving family legacies for future generations. The discussion highlights the emotional value of family memories and the joy of storytelling through curated family history books and movies.

Start by sorting images into piles by individuals. Organize photos chronologically by decades. Culling duplicates and poor-quality images is essential. Progress in organizing leads to a sense of achievement. Using professional help can ease the process.

You might find this video helpful if you're interested in family history, organizing memories, curating photos, digitization, storytelling, publishing family history books, or producing family history movies and films

Need help with all those family photos? Schedule some Organizing and Curating sessions with us.

https://familymoviestorybooks.com/product/organizing-curating

01/30/2025

How to build the chapters of your family story book

In this conversation, family historian Cory Bretz and book designer Barbi Braude discuss the challenges of organizing family history into chapters in a cohesive book. They explore creative methods for structuring family stories, using metaphors like tapestries and egg cartons to illustrate how to effectively categorize and present family narratives. The importance of storytelling in preserving family history for future generations is emphasized, along with practical advice for those looking to document their family legacies.

You'll find this interesting if you like family history, storytelling, genealogy, family trees, family stories, and family history projects.

01/30/2025

Got cars in your photo albums? They might be nice in your family book.

01/16/2025

Today at 4pm Pacific we're online working with our family history photo collections. Join our free workshop How To Easily Share Your Old Photos.

Gathering, digitizing, and working with old photos for your family history book publishing project.

01/16/2025

This is why we publish family history books...so that proud Grandmothers can wow their grandchildren and great grandchildren!

This past holiday season Evelyn recently unboxed a stack of copies of her new book Living a Life that Matters, autographed each one, and gave them to each of her children and grandchildren.

12/17/2024

The holiday season is when family members ask questions about ancestors, genealogy, old photos and everything else that you've got stored...somewhere.

At this free workshop we talk through the process of publishing a family history book so that next year at the holidays you'll have all that inspiring family goodness right at your fingertips. Maybe you'll even be famous for giving the best gift ever!

Free online workshop to learn skills and strategies for finally getting your family history book published.

12/16/2024

Don't sing this song: The Twelve Days of Publishing. https://familymoviestorybooks.com/save-12-percent/