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Thankful for the Memories

November 24, 2022
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You're Worth It

November 11, 2022
Educational

How long does it take to digitize VHS tapes?

November 5, 2022
Educational

What to do with old VHS home movies?

November 4, 2022
Educational

What's an online folder?

November 2, 2022
Educational

Top Five Cloud Benefits

November 1, 2022
Educational

Does insurance protect my photos?

October 26, 2022
Commentary
November 24, 2022

Thankful for the Memories

Memories increase gratitude, but it’s hard to enjoy our home movies & photos stuck on outdated media. Heirloom’s digitizing service and secure network can help!

Commentary
November 11, 2022

You're Worth It

How should a veteran respond when thanked for their service? Blessed by serving in the military & private sector, Geoff Weber strongly replys "You're worth it!"

Educational
November 5, 2022

How long does it take to digitize VHS tapes?

Converting VHS tapes to digital takes many hours. It's done in real-time and requires a working VCR for each tape. Digitize home movies to enjoy them forever.

Educational
November 4, 2022

What to do with old VHS home movies?

VHS tapes are cluttering your house. These home movies, and the VCR to play them, have been collecting dust for years. What should you do with these memories?

Educational
November 2, 2022

What's an online folder?

Once digitized, organize your photos & videos into online folders. Exchange with friends & family, anywhere. Set permissions to your own private network.

Educational
November 1, 2022

Top Five Cloud Benefits

You've heard it recommended to back up your photos, video, and other cherished media. Now you can forever save memories and money by using online cloud storage.

Educational
October 26, 2022

Does insurance protect my photos?

No, insurance cannot replace your memories. You must scan photos to JPG and convert videos to MP4. Then, save to the cloud for data redundancy, forever.

Educational
September 11, 2022

Memory Digitizing Guide

How to enjoy your photos and videos, forever.

Commentary
May 10, 2022

Who remembers Betamax?

Sony's Betamax video cassette recorder (VCR) was revolutionary, but the tapes were discontinued in 2016. Digitize these now before this analog media degrades.

December 24, 2021

Remember photo slides?

Old time slide shows were a fun way to enjoy photography with others. Convert these photo slides to digital JPG files to forever preserve the memories.

Corporate
November 11, 2021

Veteran Culture Defines Heirloom

As a veteran-owned business, it's no surprise that Heirloom was awarded four designations as a Military Friendly Brand on Veteran's Day 2021.

Educational
October 7, 2021

Share a Digital Scrapbook

Capture, curate, and connect all memories into a digital scrapbook. Enjoy your digitized media online. Share with friends and family around the world, forever.

Lost & Found

Memories from thrift stores, flea, markets, and abonded storage lockers.

Yosemite Valley, ~1960s

We found this picture of a beautiful couple standing in front of Half Dome, one of Yosemite Valley’s most recognizable landmarks. Yosemite Valley in California sees millions of visitors each year (a record 5 million people visited in 2016!). Even though the park sees so many people, each person typically only sees it once…and it’s always a special memory. This picture was nestled in a collection of photos from all over the world – from California to New Orleans to Paris, Germany, Africa, and more. But despite the awe-inspiring view behind them, the couple seems more entranced with each other than anything around them.

Prom, 1966

The charm and beauty of prom captures the hearts of young men and women across the country every year. For many, it’s their first formal affair, their first step into a glamorous world built only for them. But perhaps more memorable are the days and moments leading up to the ceremony. Before the first song ever plays, ladies are shopping with friends to find the perfect dress, gentlemen are building up the courage to ask for a date, and both are speechless at the first sight of each other. The laughter and smiles found in these moments often planted roots for love to blossom.

Love unbound, circa 1966

Every generation faces unique challenges. To meet them, we stand on the shoulders of our loved ones and become more than they ever could. In time, we do the same for our children, lifting them higher still to achieve what we could only dream of. While we were busying admiring those who guided us, candid memories like this remind us of the care they took to show us the world we live in. Hairstyles and fashion choices come and go. Pop culture changes with the wind. But the excitement that comes from these experiences – whether learning them for the first time or passing them along to the next generation – creates unforgettable feelings that deserve to last forever.

Sharing laughs, circa 1965

Some of our memories are defined by the times. We proudly showed off our bellbottom pants and 8-track tapes, wore loud clothes and big hair, and proved that grunge wasn’t just music, it was a way of life. These were the times of our self-expression. But our most important memories weren’t shaped by self-expression, they were shaped by mutual expression, by the friends who stood beside us. Friends have a way of bringing out the best in us. They help define who we are through the experiences we share. The smiles, the laughs, and even the tears create a bond stronger than time.

Swinging, ~1965

Autumn brings about a time of great change. Like the trees that shed their leaves, we put the summer behind us, trading t-shirts for sweaters and beaches for playgrounds. And it was on the swing sets of our youth that we learned we could touch the clouds if we but yearned to fly. As Robert Frost once told us, “Nothing gold can stay.” Nearly a century later, his words remind us that true beauty lives only in the moment, and those moments are worth remembering.

Riding Giraffes, ~1965

Life has a way of forcing our focus on the future. We plan and schedule and organize and hope that it all helps us get to where we think we want to be. But when the meetings are over and the offices close, we escape to the places that make us forget it all. Places like the Nut Tree in Vacaville, CA, offered retreat to residents and tourists and foreign dignitaries alike. At its height, it was “the ‘go-to’ spot no matter your passions or your age. We all had a place like this, somewhere we could be ourselves among friends that always made us smile.

Change, ~1970s

We often take pictures to capture the moment, to relive the happiness and joy we felt in years past. But when we look back on them decades later, we find that pictures are so much more powerful. They preserve the smiles, of course, but they also chronicle change. We all experience it. The laughter and tears, the wins and the losses, and at every turn we love and mourn and grow. Pictures like this show that as we grow, so too does the world.

Choices, ~1977

Just because we were there together doesn’t mean we had the same experience. We remember things differently because our priorities were different. Some of us let the experience define the memory, while others chose to define it themselves. We often rush through life, bouncing between the big moments and taking ourselves too seriously. We move from one day to the next with little regard for the small moments that fill each one. Meanwhile, those around us are having the time of their lives in every moment they can. So, we have a choice: we can wait for the memorable moments to find us, or we can create the times that are worth remembering.
When you look back at your own pictures, do you see a defining moment, or a moment defined?

Transformations, 1994

As we get older, holidays tend to take on new meanings for us. New Year’s Eve becomes less about the party and more about spending another year with friends, Christmas less about getting gifts and more about giving them, and we understand the things we’re thankful for during Thanksgiving more than ever. But no matter how old we are, the excitement of putting on a costume for Halloween never changes. Whether we’re giving the candy or getting it, Halloween allows us to transform into whatever we want. We can be spooky ghosts wrapped in sheets or wear plastic teeth and threaten to suck the blood from our friend’s necks.

Showing off, 1996

We all have our own hobbies. Some of us like golfing with friends, or painting a comforting picture surrounded by idyllic scenery. Others enjoy playing music, writing stories, or woodworking. But almost everyone has spent at least a day on the water with nothing but a fishing pole and the hope of catching the big one. Whether you’re bragging about your amazing hole-in-one or that giant fish that got away, we all love sharing our adventures. That’s why memories like this are so important. Our friends won’t always believe us when we tell them how big that fish really was, but they can’t argue when we show them the picture.

Camaraderie, 1954

When we remember significant events in our lives, we remember the friends who supported us the most. As we get older, these memories become more caricatures than factual, and many of the people we enjoyed being with are lost in the fog of our minds. Military members meet a significant amount of people all the time. Whether through the constant rotation of personnel through a unit or the many classes that provide networking opportunities, service-members often remember events more often than names or faces. But when we look back on pictures like this, a flood of memories comes rushing through. Suddenly, we’re a part of the conversations all over again. We see the faces and hear the laughter and we remember the smiles that carried us through those important times.

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