As a quick follow up to last week’s post about creating a sonic history here’s a great video highlighting 100 years of sound history and two excellent web resources to help you find the sounds that you find most memorable.
Personal History
Touching Base After an Absence
A History of Sound
Sonic World: Your Aural History
Photo, Photo, Who’s That in the Photo?
By Pamela Pacelli-Cooper President, Verissima Productions Incorporated Who takes the photos in your family? Do you have stacks and stacks of albums from past years, a Picasa or Flickr account with thousands of images, or do you stay away from taking photographs because it’s too much trouble? And what about photos from your[Read More]
Context, Context, Context: Personal Historians and American History
By Pamela Pacelli, Personal Historian President, Verissima Productions So you’re doing a personal history for someone and they want to write about their grandmother who was the first woman to vote in her tiny Kansas town. Or, you’re interviewing a 90-year-old man from Pennsylvania whose father fought in the First World War 100 years[Read More]
Palaces for the People: You and the Public Library
By: Pamela Pacelli President, Verissima Productions I was 7 years old and the huge grey building with its copper dome and tall, fluted columns seemed like one of the palaces I had read about in fairy tales. My mother and I walked through the heavy bronze door into a room with marble floors,[Read More]
Building a family history: Where to start?
By Pam Pacelli Cooper Verissima Productions My mother in law Polly died 5 years ago. Her dining room table is now ours, her bed is in our guest room, and we have kept the vow we made when we inherited some of her things to have more dinner parties and to fill our[Read More]
Dust in the Wind: Preserving that which will pass away
By Pam Pacelli-Cooper President, Verissima Productions I am returning to this blog after 18 months. As I was thinking about what to write, I came upon a short online essay by Christopher Cavin, a Zen monk and therapist who practices in Salt Lake City, the beating heart of genealogy in the United States. [Read More]
Using Your Senses to Uncover Your Family History, Part Two: Sniffing Out Emotions
By Pam Pacelli As a junior in high school, I was given an assignment to write about a deeply pleasurable experience. Immediately, I recalled to the joy of baking sugar cookies with my grandmother in her kitchen but—try as I might—I could not describe the glorious smells of the newly baked cookies. Frustrated, I[Read More]
