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Every year, we at Capture Your Story make it a point take to hear from Holocaust Survivors on Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day -...

We recently discovered the social media pages of the Wheatland Manor nursing home in Iowa. This 44-bed skilled nursing facility located...

Many of our clients come to us in the early stages of dementia. That's why we get so excited when we hear about findings that can...

Lydia Manuylova, an eighty-six-year-old woman in Ukraine, expressed her fear for the current situation. Lydia Manuylova, 86, Ukraine "I'm...

Funny how I thought this pandemic of ours would only last a year. *Sigh.* But the premise still remains true: we should be capturing the...

Sidney Poitier, the iconic, legendary Oscar-winning actor, passed away last week. In this interview from 2013, he tells CBS News' Lesley...

The author Amy Tan recently posted a message to her followers that we felt was incredibly important. We are sharing it here in the hopes...

The clients have just given their final stamp of approval on their Life Story book - and love it! Oh, the excitement of an almost...

From a recent client: "The thing is - you change in life, you don't stay the same. If you do stay the same, that's when divorces start....

We're constantly learning new things from our interviewees. For instance, do you know what a "cold water flat" is? Neither did we! Turns...

Sometimes when interviewing a client for their Life Story book, we are struck by just how much has changed in the span of time that our...

What does the word Thanksgiving evoke for you? The smells of the delicious food? The sound of your relatives' laughter? The feeling of...

The profile of this brave girl and her absolutely remarkable brother hit us right in the kishkas (the Yiddish word for guts, but you get...

During the dark days of early Covid, when people were limited to the 4 walls of their homes, it became popular to share "the view from my...

We recently stumbled upon an article from a few years back entitled "What Will My Grandchild Remember?" by Paula Span that pretty well...

Now it's time to pass down yours. There are countless reasons to tell the stories of your life and of the people who came before you,...

It's been a while since my last blog post, as you may or may not have noticed. These last few months have been busy with summer...

We recently discovered MyHeritage's incredible "In Color" technology that allows users - for free! - to colorize or restore black and...

We at Capture Your Story are huge fans of the food writer Mark Bittman's, and the way that he relates food to larger issues like the...