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Gordon Parks: Photographer, Filmmaker, and Journalist

By Abby Schreiber

February at FOREVER is Family History Month, and nationwide, it's **Black History Month** as well! Let's learn about groundbreaking photographer Gordon Parks.

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A Second Chance After Tragedy

By Brenda Baker

April 27, 1996: my wedding day. As it is for many people, it was one of the happiest days of my life; We had a wonderful time on that day, and captured the memories in photographs and on video. It's always surprising how much can change in a moment.

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Dealing With the Aftermath: Hurricane Ian

By Charlene Orsine

On September 28, Hurricane Ian took aim at SWFL (Southwest FL), making landfall near Cayo Costa as a dangerous, high-end Category 4 storm. FOREVER Ambassador Charlene Orsine was there to help.

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Snapfish Accidentally Deleted My Photos

By Gina Janaszek

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. It is so true. What would we do without our photos? That almost happened to me.

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Reliving History, One Letter at a Time

By Roxanne Buchholz

At the time I started putting my family history documents together, no one in the marketplace was using bits and pieces of real-life memorabilia to create digital art kits in order to beautifully accent the written stories of yesteryear.

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How Memory-Keeping Solved a 23 Year Mystery

By Abby Schreiber

Random acts of kindness - how often do we perform them and never think twice about it? What if we were able to see the impact of our actions on others? This rhetorical question became a reality for Tracy Peck on Saturday, April 30.

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Restoring with Historian

By Rhonda Gardinier

What happens when the only photos you have seem "beyond repair"?

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Friends Around The Globe

By Abby Schreiber

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it 1,000 times: everyone needs FOREVER. Everywhere needs FOREVER. And, with this client, we just got a little bit closer to “everywhere.”

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Three Generations Jumping Rope

By Wendy Gordon

I’m 55. My mom is 83 and my dad and grandparents have all passed away. Our home movies were stored in an old trunk in my parent’s basement for at least 40 years.

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Finding Family Stories in Census Records

By Taneya Y. Koonce

The 1950 United States Federal Census records were made available at 12:01am ET Friday, April 1st on the website of the National Records and Archives Administration, and since then, many people have scoured the pages in search of their families.

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The Feelings in Photo Books

By Donna Pullan

As a professional Photo Organizer, I frequently organize and create custom photo books for my clients – it’s become second nature. But every now & then, there’s a project that reminds me just how important photos, ephemera, and photo books are to visual storytelling and memory keeping.

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Where Do the Stories Go?

By Donna Mangan

Over the years I have enjoyed putting my printed photos in albums. However, when it came to the old black and white family heritage photos, I was stumped. I certainly did not want to scrapbook them as I did with my own photo’s; the stories behind my ancestor’s photo’s I felt were not mine to tell. I was hesitant about what to do.

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My Favorite Example Of Love

By Abby Schreiber

April 19, 1992. Some might remember it as Easter Sunday. Many might not remember the date at all. For me, it’s not a memory - it’s history. It’s the start of my favorite love story ever told: the day my parents met.

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Treasures Among Paper

By Barbara Mitchell

I started digging through the local newspaper where I grew up. I thought I could find my parents’ engagement announcement and maybe some other related articles to add to the photobook. Boy was I surprised!

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A Day in Dad's Bombardier Seat

By Diane Ogle

Daddy was a bombardier in WWII. Before the paperwork caught up with him, sadly, his entire class of new Bombardiers was killed at Pearl Harbor. I would not be here today had he flown off with his buddies.

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My Memories are Personal

By Steve Howard

Today, I got emotional. As a 73 year old guy, I’m not used to fighting back tears. I was not successful.

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A Recipe for Remembering

By Valerie Yanku

Mom had a recipe box. You know, the metal kind that holds 4x6 index cards. But then, something terrible happened.

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Morgan's Marine Letters

By Karen Bowser

Our son, Morgan, enlisted in the Marine Corps when he was 19. While he was away serving, he wrote letters home to us (his parents) and to his grandparents, and we saved them all. Before she died, my mother gave me the letters he wrote to them.

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Cracking the Code

By Christine Woodcock

I have been researching family history for 20+ years. Ever since I began, the big question in the genealogy world has been, "How do we engage the younger generation?"

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Once In A Lifetime

By Shirley Dejarnette Wyatt

One day while at work, a coworker found a box of pictures in the parking lot. He put the box in an area where most lost items are placed, just in case someone stops by after realizing that they had misplaced something. After about a day or so, another coworker and I decided to look in the box - inside was an assortment of pictures and letters.

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