Don't Lose Your Legacy Story

What a fantastic and productive way to spend Saturday, at the incredible Kempton Racecourse in West London.

Thanks to the team from The Family History Show, who hosted Your Video Story team and all the other exhibitors who supported Your Video Story and connected with plans to work together professionally using our film to capture the incredible family stories that they have helped to research and uncover.

It was very clear that where the focus has been on research and building those assets through physical and digital research, almost all the visitors to the show and those helping them, had created incredible archives, but that no-one was actually telling the stories that brought them to life, unless they put in the huge amount of work required to write a book (at massive additional cost in time and resource to them).

Several of the lovely people the team at Your Video Story met told the team that after ten, twenty and in one case forty years of family research, they had no-one to pick up the baton from them and that their work just lived in box files in the attic and on PC's and laptops. We think that is an incredible waste when the very best people to tell the stories of their families are there themselves, with professional support from us in capturing the stories in an entertaining and viewable way, while incorporating digitally the assets they have and we would add to make the story entertaining for generations to come.

A number of 'Your Video Story' films will come from those the team were honoured to meet. Oh, and we must say thanks to Ness for doing a brilliant job hosting and those visiting us with Your Video Story team on our exhibition stand.

If you want to bring your family story to life, be that for a couple of generations or over dozens, Your Video Story can do that with you. Don't lose your legacy story, it is important.