Allisona-books

Preserve your beautiful family story

Portrait of my grandfather, cover art for a family history.

We help you capture the narrative of your family story from interviews and images, with a friendly, storybook style. Hear the perspective of one or several members of the family recounting life events and relationships.

What is the story of your life worth to your family?

Let’s preserve your family heritage, valuable life lessons, and history for your children and grandchildren who will follow in your footsteps.

“Yes, please help me write the story of my life and my loved ones!”

This is a personalized service, not a system for you to follow. We care about capturing the voice and spirit behind the stories, with personal interviews that allow loved ones to share in an intimate setting. Through personal interviews, regular communication and responses, we bring together the most impactful, story-worthy tales, images, memories, and wisdom for your family to share and remember.

Don’t miss out on valuing the life of the generations before you—of mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers—before those stories fade away forever.

Portrait of my grandfather, cover art for a family history.
Your story begins with a conversation

In a personal setting, we sit down together and review a life story, listenning for common threads, important lessons, and values to keep and share.

Old images and shared history are preserved

We help families to gather, repair, and convert old family images, journal pages, letters, news clipping, artwork and memorable documents that are used to frame your story.

Your life story becomes an heirloom

The values and life lessons you share are preserved and emphasized along with the fun stories and even family traditions, to emphasize the creative narrative. Your tale is written to value the content and experience that family may contribute. These details help create your family history book.

A family story worth sharing…

Baby photos restored, history saved and collected

We love to listen to the tales of our grandparents and great grandparents, the struggles they faced inspire us. The pains they felt encourages and strengthens us for days ahead. Remember the hard times when they stuck together—or fell apart—but in the end survived to overcome and raise a family.

Stories help us come together with compassion, understanding, forgiveness and love.

Hearing the story in the words of a great grandmother is precious. And though we love the stories when we first hear them, sometimes the voice, the timeline, the details, and the stories themselves get lost.

We love to listen, to interview, to research, and to carefully recreate the timeline in a family history. The final result is a time capsule of your history with restored and recovered photos and memories that you can revisit and share for many generations with an archival publication.

Each family history we capture and recreate is completely unique. A caring interviewer will sit with your family members, sometimes for an entire day or two, and listen to stories, ask questions, and gain a fresh perspective while recording the entire process. The notes and images we scan become the first draft of a story. Your family gets to review the draft and then the exciting process of researching, developing the story, and adding a timeline begins. Add your version, memories, or additional details, along with enlightening opinions, and perspectives into the tale. Provide supporting images and valued memories.

Finally the stories and images are lovingly crafted into a professionally printed book with high quality archival paper and print. Choose a cloth cover with gold leaf, or a printed photo image to introduce this unique and custom family history to the world.

Book cover for a family history book.

From restoring years of archived images to simply creating new photos and video interviews with your loved ones, we bring the technology and partner with you to share your story.

Ask how we capture your family stories and history in a full multimedia family time capsule.

Ask about Family Video Time Capsules

Author, creator, photographer and your book designer, Daniel Crandall

Creator, Daniel Crandall

Your photos, historic documents, and most importantly, your loved ones are cared for and vallued throughout the process of creating a family history. Family is personally recorded in conversation with Daniel Crandall who has a history of loving and caring for family. Daniel is a photographer, published author and book designer teeaching people how to create and tell their story since 2013.

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