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Bringing your family photos to life for generations to come. Family history videos is what we do! Memories of loved ones on record to be cherished.

We make broadcast quality family history videos, so that incredible stories live on forever.

01/11/2023

Challenge accepted: To all professionals in the television/film world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text and post a pic.

26/09/2023

Hi all, we've just donated a Talking Family Album session to the good folk at Wave 105 for their charity auction raising money for disadvantaged children and teenagers through their charity Cash for Kids. If you'd like a chance of getting a bargain (or paying over the odds to help the charity!) then jump onto their FB page and start bidding!

30/12/2021

Happy New Year's Eve! 🎆 : ✨
- 1902: A new southing record was set by Robert Falcon Scott (pictured), accompanied by Ernest Henry Shackleton and E.A Wilson, after they reached the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- 1916: Mystic Grigori Rasputin was killed by Russian conservatives, due to his influence over Empress Alexandra and the royal family.
- 1922: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established, with Moscow as its capital - eventually incorporating 15 republics and becoming the largest country in the world (in area) until its dissolution in 1991.
- 2014: German-born actress Luise Rainer, the first person to receive two Academy Awards for acting, died aged 104.

[Picture: Britannica]

23/12/2021

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- 1815: Jane Austen published her fourth novel, 'Emma'.
- 1913: After signing of the Federal Reserve Act by President Woodrow Wilson, the Federal Reserve System was created.
- 1929: American jazz musician Chet Baker (pictured), known for his plaintive trumpet-playing and singing, was born.

[Picture: Positive Feedback]

16/12/2021

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- 1773: In what became known as the Boston Tea Party, American colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company into Boston Harbour to protest a tax on tea.
- 1775: Jane Austen (pictured), renowned classic British novelist of 'Pride & Prejudice' and more, was born.
- 1944: During World War II, German forces started the Battle of the Bulge, after they began pushing through the Allied lines in the Ardennes.
- 2009: James Cameron's ground-breaking science-fiction film Avatar was released, going on to earn more than $2.7 billion worldwide.

[Picture: Britannica]

09/12/2021

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- 1934: Dame Judi Dench, critically acclaimed actress known for her varied roles, was born.
- 1965: The animated Christmas special 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' featuring characters from the comic Peanuts aired on US television, and became a festive classic.
- 1979: 10 years after the World Health Organisation initiated a global vaccination program, smallpox was officially declared eradicated.

[Picture: The Mercury News]

02/12/2021

Happy December! : ✨
- 1804: Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France
- 1942: Scientists led by Enrico Fermi (pictured) conducted the first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago
- 1982: William C. DeVries implanted the first permanent artificial heart in patient Barney Clark, called the Jarvik-7
- 1983: Michael Jackson's ground-breaking music video for Thriller aired on MTV

[Picture: Britannica]

25/11/2021

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- 1914: Iconic American baseball player Joe DiMaggio was born.
- 1936: Germany and Japan formed the Anti-Comintern Pact against the Soviet Union.
- 1942: Los Alamos, New Mexico was chosen by Groves and Oppenheimer as the site of Project Y, which developed the first atomic bomb.
- 2002: Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap celebrated its 50th anniversary in London with a royal gala - the performance was its 20,870th.

24/11/2021

Imagine interviewing Freddie, what an interesting story he would tell! 💕

18/11/2021

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- 1928: Walt Disney released 'Steamboat Willie', the first animated film with sound to feature Mickey Mouse. His popularity led him to become synonymous with Disney, and to their dominance in animation.
- 1939: Award-winning Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, author of 'The Handmaid's Tale' amongst others, was born in Ottawa.
- 1963: The first push-button (touch-tone) telephones debuted in the US, later replacing rotary phones.

[Picture: Mubi]

15/11/2021

Thank you to everyone who came to see us at the Really Useful Family History Show over the weekend! ☺ It was great to talk to people about genealogy and capturing family history.

11/11/2021

Lest We Forget. :
- 1918: World War I officially ended at 11am after the Allied Powers and Germany signed an armistice document at 5am in the carriage of Ferdinand Foch, commander of the Allied armies.
- 1966: Spacecraft Gemini 12 was launched, the first of the Gemini series to make a controlled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
- 1992: The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.

[Picture: Britannica]

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