It's 2050 -- Will Your Great-Grandchildren Know Who You Were? Remember Me LifeStories Guarantees that Your Stories Won't Be Lost

You’ve been careful to get your financial will completed, how about your ethical will? Remember Me LifeStories launches the “My Life, My Message” on-call video biography, capturing the living essence of the individual through services ranging photo montages to full-blown A&E-style productions including interviews, family photos and music. Now future generations can hear your voice, see your face as you tell them about your life and what it meant to you.

Havana, Florida (PRWEB) April 26, 2006 -- April 24, 2006 -- You’ve been careful to get your financial will completed, how about your ethical will? Remember Me LifeStories launches the “My Life, My Message” on-call video biography, capturing the living essence of the individual through services ranging photo montages to full-blown A&E-style productions including interviews, family photos and music. Now future generations can hear your voice, see your face as you tell them about your life and what it meant to you.

Remember Me, soon to be statewide, will come to a client’s home and film in a relaxed, comfortable setting. They meticulously gather old photos and memorabilia from their clients, then guided with a list of carefully crafted, trademarked questions, masterfully help clients tell their life stories on video. Extensive editing follows yielding a state-of-the-art production with razor-sharp pictures on an archive-quality, scratch-proof DVD format. Finally, Remember Me can assist with orchestrating a big-screen premiere for the first showing.

Kerensa Haney, CEO of Remember Me advises “Research indicates that, by far the dominant demographic of people who order a video biography are Baby Boomers, but they order it for their parents as well as producing one for their own children. We've got this huge Baby Boomer population. Most of our clients have been over 50 years old." Not surprisingly, most video bios center on subjects who have a fair amount of salt in their pepper. "Everyone has photos that exist in their closet. How many people do you think spend $500-1,000 on Christmas gifts each year?" she says. "Ask people who've lost their parents if they wished they'd done something like this but didn't. The time to do this is now while you and your parents are alive and well. Every family in America should do this." Trendwatching.com has dubbed this new phenomenon “life caching” and has been brought to the forefront by the onslaught of new technologies, from blogging to memory sticks to high definition camera phones; an almost biblical flood of “personal content” is being collected. Even the Wall Street Journal picked up on the trend, showcasing it in an October 23, 2003 article called "The Story of My Life, Starring… Me!" The article profiled a handful of companies offering video biographies, with prices ranging (in late 2003, mind you) from $800 to $20,000, with $2,000-$3,000 emerging as a fair arithmetic mean. Remember Me through proprietary technology and a patent-pending process is the first of it’s kind to be able to offer the average person, affordable packages that range from $199 and up, that allow you to know immediately what the cost will involve.

Remember Me LifeStories was originally created under a different company name by Mrs. Haney in February 2005, producing memorial tributes for funeral homes, eventually evolving into Remember Me LifeStories by December 2005. Mrs. Haney was your typical soccer mom with two children, except that her previous employment and hobbies gave her a diverse set of skills not only in operations and administration, but also in website development and video production. Mrs. Haney advises that the company is much more than a business, it is a mission that is dedicated to helping people share their stories, carry on traditions and commemorate life’s milestones … one memory, one picture, one life at a time.

They are putting the system in place to begin recruiting independent sales consultants and selling product through in-home parties and should be ready for launch statewide by May 15. They feel in-home parties are the only way to connect the value through the experience. According to their website, these parties will be a time of remembrance, tea, scones and fun! They have interested recruits all over the state including Ocala, Fort Lauderdale, Lake Wales and Panama City.

They also give legacy workshop presentations around the state for groups of one to 100 and for audiences of any age on topics of memory preservation and archiving our history. The most recent workshops were held in Tallahassee, FL assisted living facilities including HarborChase, Woodmont and Alterra Sterling House.

In a quote by Robert DeNiro, interviewed by Cal Fussman in January 2003, he said “When a parent dies, it’s the end. I always wanted to chronicle the family history with my mother. She was always interested in that. I wanted some researchers I’d worked with to talk to my mother, but my mother was a little antsy about it. I know she would’ve gotten into it. It would have been okay with my father, too. But I wasn’t forceful, and I didn’t make it happen. That’s one regret I have. I didn’t get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.”

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