There are many forms that a family keepsake can take. The final deliverable depends on your family's purpose as well as the intended audience.
We recently published a founder’s memoir, for example, that printed only 50 hardbound copies for the family. Another family created a documentary and a coordinating book of first-hand accounts. The print run of the book was around 250 copies for family members and key stakeholders. We helped another family create a digital archive, combining interviews and historical family images into a personalized keepsake.
When you engage the Journey Sixty6 team, we help you determine the best format or combination of formats to share your family legacy keepsake.
We produce various types of videos, podcasts, and books, including: documentaries, memoirs, anthology of first-person stories, podcasts, audio archives, digital libraries, and a video collection of stories.
Family Business Book
Family Business Legacy Memoir
This project was initiated by the CEO, a third-generation family leader of a century-old family business, who wanted to preserve its family business history. Journey Sixty6 structured, ghostwrote, and published the family legacy book, drawing on in-depth interviews with family members, close friends, and key stakeholders. To ensure a comprehensive portrayal of the family's story, the book presents each chapter from a distinct first-person viewpoint. Journey Sixty6 also produced a complementary documentary. Together, these projects offer a multifaceted exploration of the family's heritage and its business triumphs.
MEMOIR
Family Legacy Memoir
Most every successful family has a story arc that includes survival, risk, overcoming, and thriving. The year-long journey to write and publish this family legacy memoir included in-depth interviews with the author, his family, and his business partners. Journey Sixty6 mapped out the writing and publishing process and then implemented the entire project from start to finish, including ghostwriting and publishing the book through our Big Snowy Media imprint. It was published in 2015.
Founder Legacy Memoir
This was the second of three book projects we guided the author on. The author, a founder and CEO of a successful marketing agency, wanted to capture the values that motivated his career and life. Publishing this book was of particular urgency, because he was battling stage-4 cancer. The author enlisted Journey Sixty6 to jumpstart the book, identifying a thesis and structure. And then Journey Sixty6 was hired to ghostwrite and publish the book under the Big Snowy imprint. The entire process was completed within a four-month period. The legacy memoir was offered as a final gift to his friends, families, and colleagues.
DOCUMENTARY
Every multigenerational family business endures many defining moments that clarify its values and shape its future. This 117-year-old, Chicago-based family business engaged us to create a 15-minute documentary to capture their legacy. The family faced unexpected deaths, a devastating fire, two World Wars, and wrenching change in their industry. This is a story of the values that defined the family and its business, which is now the North American leader in its business category.
VIDEO COLLECTION OF STORIES
The CEO of a century-old family business engaged Journey Sixty6 to create a documentary and family legacy book to preserve the family business’s history. After completion of these two projects, the CEO wanted to capture the video recordings cut from the documentary to share with family members. Journey Sixty6 organized the remaining videos into a chronological anthology. The anthology is broken into 19 thematic stories that capture the business’s struggles, major transitions, and successes while also preserving the family's memories while they still exist in the minds of the living.
