An investment
Creating a personal or family narrative history requires
• sensitivity toward the people involved;
• excellent writing and editing skills to convey your
family legacy in a meaningful and interesting
manner while still retaining the personal voice of
the family members; and
• attention to detail.
To ensure this process is successful, it takes about 15 hours to turn one interview hour into a carefully refined and proofed document ready for layout.
Layout includes scanning photos, slides, letters, and other documents and preparing the book for printing.
Printing costs depend upon the number of pages and whether or not color is used.
Telephone interviews also are available upon request.
Packages
Along with the packages below, extras are available, such as color printing, additional scanning, additional interview hours, and additional bound copies (including leather). Travel outside the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, area will be expensed at actual cost.
| Package | What it includes |
Heritage
| 20 interview hours; 150 scans of photos, letters and/or documents with simple restoration when needed; layout and design; black-and-white laser printing; 1 clothbound hardback copy with 1 cover photo; 1 digital pdf file and audio copy on CD or your flash drive. |
Legacy
| 15 interview hours; 150 scans of photos, letters and/or documents with simple restoration when needed; layout and design; black-and-white laser printing; 1 clothbound hardback copy with 1 cover photo; 1 digital pdf file and audio copy on CD or your flash drive. |
| Heirloom | 10 interview hours; 100 scans of photos, letters and/or documents with simple restoration when needed; layout and design; black-and-white laser printing; 1 clothbound hardback copy with 1 cover photo; 1 digital pdf file and audio copy on CD or your flash drive. |
| Jubilee | 5 interview hours; 75 scans of photos, letters and/or documents with simple restoration when needed; layout and design; black-and-white laser printing; 1 clothbound hardback copy with 1 cover photo; digital audio copy on CD or your flash drive. |
| Celebration | 2 interview hours; 40 scans of photos, letters and/or documents with simple restoration when needed; layout and design; black-and-white laser printing; 1 clothbound hardback copy with 1 cover photo; 1 digital pdf file and audio copy on CD or your flash drive. |
| Keepsake | 1 interview hour; 10 scans of photos, letters and/or documents with simple restoration when needed; layout and design; black-and-white laser printing; 1 clothbound hardback copy with 1 cover photo; 1 digital pdf file and audio copy on CD or your flash drive. |
Please call Heidi at 513-774-9882 for a free consultation.
"What the next generation will value most is not what we owned but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage."
Ellen Goodman, born 1948
Bright Concepts 513-774-9882 Loveland, Ohio
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