Sometimes, family heirlooms almost drop in your lap. This is from our sister site, Hanneman Archive: I heard the answering machine pick up a call in my office. Normally they are hangups or some robo-call, but I sensed this was different. I strained to hear what the woman was saying. It was clear it was … More When Heirlooms Drop in Your Lap
A wonderful way to remember a departed loved one is through use of a tribute video. These can be done to show at a visitation, or anytime to share with family and friends. We used a fairly simple program called iMovie on an Apple iMac to create the video at the link below. The video … More Remembrance in Video
It is a concept expressed many times throughout history: rewards require dedication and hard work. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, put it this way: “You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.” It is but one variant of a time-honored theme: no guts, no glory; no cross, no crown. Our image … More Treasured Wisdom from Andrew Jackson
Oral history is one of the most important arrows in the historian’s quiver. Source documents, photographs, databases and the like offer their own advantages, but audio and/or video interviews deliver information not available with other types of media. It’s one thing to read about someone and the details of their life. But being able to hear … More Preserve Oral History, While You Can
Some of the most memorable images in our archive are old black-and-white photographs that were hand tinted to add color to parts of or the entire photo. Color film eliminated the novelty of that practice. Today we can do the process in reverse to create special, stunning images from even ordinary color prints. A couple … More Color Splash Your Photo Library
Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling certainly understood the power of stories. He wrote some of the most memorable ones of the past two centuries, including The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous and Gunga Din. He provides his take on history in this installment of Treasured Wisdom. Could it be that history gets short shrift because of how it … More Treasured Wisdom from Rudyard Kipling
On this Christmas Day 2015, we thought it would be fun to take a stroll across the decades and see how American newspapers displayed the Christmas message or the news of the day. Below are images of front pages, from California to Pennsylvania, Texas to Wisconsin. In the Reading Times on Christmas Day 1900, a … More Christmas Newspapers Across the Decades
In the early 1920s, the Knights of Columbus began focusing on the spiritual, intellectual and physical development of young men in its communities across America, Canada and Mexico. A group called the Columbian Squires was formed nationally in 1925 to provide social, civic, spiritual and physical activity for boys from 12 to 18. The young … More Eye on History: 1920s Columbian Squires Baseball
We often focus on people from generations past, but it is also important to remember the treasured lives of today. In every family, there are many current-day people who should be memorialized and their stories passed down. In that spirit, I’d like to introduce you to John Clark, a fine, caring man who passed from this … More Remembering My Good Friend John Clark (1935-2014)
Doing research on family history is an exciting journey. That is the idea behind Treasured Lives, a small business dedicated to helping you map out and progress on your history journey. There are lots of online databases and services out there dedicated to genealogy and history. If that all seems overwhelming to you, Treasured Lives … More Welcome to Treasured Lives
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