<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Legacy Video]]></title><description><![CDATA[Document your family's history for generations yet to come.]]></description><link>https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:39:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[5 Signs It's Time to Preserve Your Family's Story (Before Memories Fade)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most families don't set out to lose their history. It happens quietly — a story gets told slightly differently each time, an old VHS tape sits in a closet without a working player, a parent starts saying "remind me who that is in this photo?" None of these moments feel urgent on their own. But together, they're a signal. Here are five signs it might be time to sit down and start preserving your family's story, before more of it slips away. 1. A Parent or Grandparent's Memory Has Started to...]]></description><link>https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/post/5-signs-it-s-time-to-preserve-your-family-s-story-before-memories-fade</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6b978e7882b714f0d7ef3e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:27:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea4e75_74aaca8dcb0c4cbbb0deb205c0428188~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_792,h_796,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>deidelfisher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photos to Scan — Why Digitizing Your Family's Photos Can't Wait]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's a box in most families' homes — sometimes several — full of photographs that haven't been looked at in years. Some are already curling at the edges. Some have started to fade or discolor. A few are probably the only copy that exists of a moment that mattered. Physical photographs are more fragile than most people realize. Heat, humidity, light, and time itself all work against them. Once a photo has faded or been damaged, there's often no way to fully recover it. Scanning that box...]]></description><link>https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/post/photos-to-scan-why-digitizing-your-family-s-photos-can-t-wait</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5fb31ea31281306f0b441e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:58:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/ea4e75_c08c3043d8c24fff8859164acc7142e1/720p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>deidelfisher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bike — What Learning to Ride Really Teaches a Family]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost everyone remembers some version of learning to ride a bike — the wobble, the hand on the back of the seat, the moment it let go and you didn't notice at first. It's one of childhood's most universal memories, which is exactly why it's easy to overlook as something worth preserving. It feels too ordinary to be a "story." But when families sit down for a legacy video, the bike memory almost always leads somewhere else. Who was running alongside, holding the seat? Was it a parent who was...]]></description><link>https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/post/bike-what-learning-to-ride-really-teaches-a-family</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5fb2d7a31281306f0b430d</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:57:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/ea4e75_2215aee43be24f9e840f9ebed023e88b/480p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>deidelfisher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Double Kisser — The Small Family Customs That Say Who You Are]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every family has its own customs — little, specific ways of doing things that outsiders notice right away and insiders never think twice about. Maybe it's a greeting: two kisses on the cheek instead of one, a particular way of saying hello, a phrase repeated at every goodbye. These small rituals rarely get written down anywhere. They're just how it's done. When we film legacy videos, these details come up almost by accident. A grandchild will mention, half-joking, "Grandma's always been a...]]></description><link>https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/post/double-kisser-the-small-family-customs-that-say-who-you-are</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5fb24720510c8475e62f69</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:55:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/ea4e75_ff5e481f437244bfaac516f11492bea7/480p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>deidelfisher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth Story — The First Chapter Nobody Remembers Firsthand]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's something strange about a birth story: it's the beginning of your entire life, and you're the one person who can never actually remember it. Everything you know about the day you were born comes secondhand — from a parent, a grandparent, maybe an older sibling who was there. That's exactly what makes birth stories so valuable to capture on camera, and so easy to lose. They only exist in someone else's memory. Ask a mother about the day her child was born and you'll often get more than...]]></description><link>https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/post/birth-story-the-first-chapter-nobody-remembers-firsthand</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5fb1e220510c8475e62e01</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:53:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/ea4e75_3822912ca32d45bd857922d7e8b31b53/480p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>deidelfisher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Pet — The Small Memories That Make the Biggest Impact in a Legacy Video]]></title><description><![CDATA[When people imagine a family legacy video, they usually picture the big milestones — weddings, careers, immigration stories, raising children. What surprises most families, once we start filming, is how much emotion comes out of the small stuff. A childhood pet is one of the best examples. I've watched grown men tear up talking about a dog they had when they were seven. Not because the story itself is dramatic — it's usually simple: a stray that showed up on the porch, a birthday surprise, a...]]></description><link>https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/post/post-3-first-pet-the-small-memories-that-make-the-biggest-impact-in-a-legacy-video</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5faf63e75006338f58c14a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:42:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/ea4e75_153305f6eb8b43e993011c05d2f17c11/480p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>deidelfisher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet Cute — Why Your Parents' Love Story Deserves to Be Remembered Forever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every family has a version of the story — how the parents met. Maybe it's been told so many times it's practically a script. But I've noticed something interesting while filming legacy videos: even the most well-worn family story reveals something new when it's told on camera, in detail, for the first time in years. Ask a couple how they met, and you'll usually get the short version first — the one they've told at every dinner party for forty years. But push a little further, ask about the...]]></description><link>https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/post/post-2-meet-cute-why-your-parents-love-story-deserves-to-be-remembered-forever</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5faec620510c8475e62379</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:39:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/ea4e75_0f47e273293b4b0a81cfb4d6aa5e1bb1/720p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>deidelfisher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ice-Box Cake — No Recipe Card Needed:  I know it by heart. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's a recipe in my family that we all use, my mother's birthday ice-box cake. No one in the family makes it exactly the same way twice, because half the instructions were things she just knew, not things she wrote down. "A little more than that." "Until it looks right." That's the thing about family recipes — they're never really about the food. They're about the hands that made them, the kitchen table where they were served, and the stories that got told while everyone waited for it to...]]></description><link>https://www.thelegacyvideo.com/post/post-1-ice-box-cake-no-recipe-card-needed-i-know-it-by-heart</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5fad2d5514a6e974a4ecbd</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:37:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/ea4e75_044f2996a0464cfa91d9ec6559975a6d/720p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>deidelfisher</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>