Is There a Future President in Your Family?

Unless your Address is:

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, DC

You need 

SOS: Saving Our (Great American) Stories

A Quick Start Summary

The President of the United States lives and works at The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. Official photographers and the news media document his activities, and an army of assistants help the President perform his duties while creating records of his accomplishments. After the President leaves office, the Archivist of the United States takes custody of those records and they become the basis for a Presidential Library.

There are currently 13 Presidential Libraries that serve as repositories for preserving and providing access to the papers, records, and other historical materials of U.S. Presidents. The records of Presidents prior to Herbert Hoover are located at the Library of Congress and other repositories near where they lived. At the dedication of his library in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt said, 

“To bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a Nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future."

These materials tell the stories of famous men (and someday soon, women) and their achievements. The libraries serve as museums providing texture to the history of a President during his administration as well as before and after.

Since you and your family don’t have the National Archives saving and preserving your family’s history, you need to do it yourself. SOS: Saving Our (Great American) Stories--A Quick Start Summary will help you identify, protect, and preserve photographs, color slide, videos, important documents, and much, much more. It will provide you with ideas about ways in which your family can document the evidence of your lives and preserve it for the future.

If your daughter, son, granddaughter, or grandson plans to become President of the United States one day, today is the day that you need to start preserving the story of her or his formative years for the Presidential Library in her or his future years.

Sign up now for Our Heritage Preservation, a FREE electronic magazine delivered to your email inbox, that will provide you with easy ways to preserve your stories and fun projects for the whole family. Get your complimentary copy of  SOS: Saving Our (Great American) Stories--A Quick Start Summary now. Visit OurHeritagePreservation.com, subscribe, and download your copy now! 

Have a Memorable Day!

Steve

What's "More than Genealogy?"

This week's issue of Our Heritage Preservation is now available at our website. 


Genealogy is typically the study of one's ancestry and recording the data gathered on a family tree. Our Heritage Preservation advocates that as you perform your genealogical research, you also gather photos, original documents, and other interesting pieces of your ancestors' history. As you collect those additional pieces of information, digitize them so that they can be secured and shared with others. 

Get a free subscription to Our Heritage Preservation and every future issue will come directly to your email inbox plus with your subscription order you can obtain a complimentary copy of SOS: Saving our (Great American) Stories, A Quick Start Summary.  

Our Heritage Preservation

This week's issue of Our Heritage Preservation is now available at our website. 

In concert with the office of the U.S. Surgeon General, "Preserving Our Family through Family Health Histories" makes a strong recommendation to gather health data as part of genealogical research. This issue's Action Ideas for Active People provides the first of three steps to help you collect and share your family's health histories.

Get a free subscription to Our Heritage Preservation and every future issue will come directly to your email inbox plus with your subscription order you can obtain a complimentary copy of SOS: Saving our (Great American) Stories, A Quick Start Summary.  

Our Heritage Preservation Debuts

Our Heritage Preservation, a new, free magazine, delivered directly to your email inbox debuts early next month in commemoration of National Family Heritage month. Congress first designated October as National Family Heritage Month 10 years ago and during the past decade there was a tremendous increase in interest in genealogy and tracing the roots of one's family.


The new publication offers stories and small projects to assist in creating and preserving family trees while preparing a survival kit for a family's photos, color slides, and important documents. Early subscribers will receive a complimentary, quick start summary of SOS: Saving Our (Great American) Stories.


Visit Our Heritage Preservation to subscribe today!

New Beginnings: Kim, Kris & Irene.

What a Weekend!


Kim & Kris got hitched and Irene got spawned in the Eastern Caribbean. The Monday morning news editors are jockeying to give both stories the visibility they deserve, and while there's a shortage of data to predict the future of Hurricane Irene and its potential affect on the U.S. mainland, there's plenty of information (and more to come) about the Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries wedding.


When you're a star on reality TV or a professional basketball player, everything you do--good and bad--is documented on film, videotape, and in print. No so for the rest of us. We have our favorite photographs and some video of our kids and grandchildren growing up, but our entire collection of video doesn't get close to the amount of  video taken from multiple angles of the Kardashian-Humphries gala affair. 


Imagine, the images from your kids' lifetime don't add up to those of an evening of a lifetime. More important, when there's huge commercial value to your video, there's a plan to take care of those images so that they're protected from loss. With Irene swirling in the Caribbean this week, they'll be plenty of heartbroken people who lose lots, including their family's wedding photographs, as wind and floods invade the security of their homes. 


As you make a plan, build a kit, and stay informed in anticipation of a natural disaster, give some thought to how and what photos, video, color slides, and documents you want to protect . . . . unless your last name is Kardashian or Humphries. Then you can let others do it for you. If you're on your own though, check out our Important Things Index or the EvacuPacket, a Do-It-Yourself kit. If you decide to buy one, commemorate the first hurricane of the 2011 season and use coupon code ZCBA3B to save $10.00.


Have a memorable day!

Bye-bye Emily.

Greetings from South Florida!

Yeah! We dodged Emily!

Boo-o-o. The National Weather Service added a couple of storms to its prediction for this hurricane season.

What have you done to protect the things you want to enjoy and ensure that they're available for your children to enjoy? Digitize now. Take the photos on display in your living room. If you have the negatives or files and you've locked them away in your safe deposit box, good for you! If you’re like me, and you don’t know where they are, it would be a good idea to scan and make digital files of those photos now.

After all, if those photos are on display in your home, they’re the ones that you like the most. Make sure that they’ll be there for your children and grandchildren . . . all your grandchildren because once you replicate a photo electronically, you can make as many duplicates as you want. It’s easy.

Have a memorable day. 

WSJ--25 Documents You Need Before You Die

The Wall Street Journal recommends collecting 25 documents before you die. Comments to the article by Saabira Chaudhuri include more.

Our Heritage Vault thinks there are lots more things to consider and to remember that information is only good if you and designated members of your family have access to it. Compare our lists of things to think about.

Have a Memorable Day!

Steve