Your stories matter.
Video record the stories of your life so future generations have the opportunity to learn from your experiences and know their family history.
Ensure your children know their history
Ensure that future generations know where they came from and what it took to get here.
A guided conversation
Our experienced host asks insightful questions to help you feel comfortable and confident.
A structured program
Our sessions are designed to keep stories on track and help shy guests open up.
A cathartic experience
There is a feeling of wholeness from recalling stories and discussing lessons learned.
FO R FA M I L I E S
Your family history matters
Knowing where you came from will help future generations navigate a changing world with timeless values.
Pass that history down in a beautiful video and optional book.
FO R P R O F E S S I O N A L S
Celebrate retirement & capture institutional memory
Honor your retiree with an interview that recognizes their contributions and ensures their institutional memory is preserved and shared.
Your organization can benefit from their knowledge for years to come.
FO R Y O U
Who is a Legacy Interview for?
Guests typically range from 55-85. We record interviews with individuals, married couples, siblings and business associates. Most guests travel to our Saint Louis studio from around the country.
Many guests are nervous that they won’t have stories to tell, but our host will help each guest feel comfortable and confident to tell their stories.
P O P U L AR
Best Selling
Record each of your parents as individuals and together as a couple in this special full-day interview experience. A deep and memorable experience.
The full day experience includes three Legacy Interview Sessions, a catered lunch, three separate videos delivered digitally and on a special DVD that will last hundreds of years.
Video interview for an individual or couple discussing their childhood/ancestors, career, marriage, parenting and the wisdom learned along the way.
This is a profound half-day experience that results in a video that can be shared and stored for hundreds of years, a true family heirloom.
Online video interview for an individual or couple discussing the five areas of life: childhood, career, marriage, parenting and the wisdom learned along the way.
Your loved ones will get the same high quality conversation but done from the comfort of their own home.
"My family will always have a video with the important lessons I learned throughout my life."
Bob Hermann, Chairman of Hermann Industries.
T H E B I G G E R P I C T U R E
Why Legacy Interviews are special.
We know that your most valuable contribution to the future comes from the lessons learned along your journey.
While some lessons are difficult to articulate, we will help you recall important milestones, share points of pride and talk about some of the difficult experiences that shaped your life.
Guests tell us the interview was an energizing and profound experience. Their children thank us for capturing what could have been lost.
Couples telling their love stories: Legacy Interview Open Sessions
A thoughtful recording experience
Fill out our questionnaire
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We send both the guest and the gift-giver an online questionnaire that helps us ask the right questions about accomplishments, experiences and topics to avoid.
Receive a Memory Guide
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A couple of weeks before your interview you will receive a booklet to help you prepare, including what to wear and insightful questions to help you recall important people and experiences.
A video you can watch for generations
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After recording, we lightly edit your conversation and send you a video that you and your family can watch online and a physical copy of the video for storage.
Hundreds of videos recorded
…each one unique and special.
“Watching my parents' video was an extremely rewarding experience. There were stories I hadn’t heard before, and stories that I was so happy that we finally had them captured.”
- Anna Fox
WE’ RE HERE FOR YOU
You have questions and we have answers
Common questions for this unique experience.
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Each level has different offerings but everyone that gets a Legacy Interview receives the following
A special experience with a professional host
A video of your interview
A special DVD that can last up to 1,000 years
A shareable link to watch your private video online
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A few weeks before your Legacy Interview you will receive a Memory Guide which provides an overview of the experience, offers clothing advice and has a list of questions designed to help recall stories and make the most of the experience.
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Some clients tell us that their loved one is reluctant, saying things like “I don’t have any stories” or “who would want to listen to stories about me?”
Humility and a sense of shyness can prompt guests to initially turn down an interview. But 99% of our guests end up doing the interview and glad that they did.
We’ve learned it helps to talk about how future generations will benefit from knowing their stories.
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We generally schedule 3 weeks out at a minimum.
Sometimes life circumstances lead us to scheduling emergency sessions.
If you need to schedule an interview quickly call our Legacy Interview helpline: 314-866-2991
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We believe that redundancy will make this last for generations.You have many options for watching the interview:
a private link on YouTube,
a digital download to store on your computer
an archive BlueRay DVD that will be playable for hundreds of years.
an optional USB Thumb-drive
optional transcription and book printing
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Yes. We ship them to you for $35 each for as long as we have your interview saved.
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We can create a transcript for any interview. We will do the work of generating it and editing it.
You have the option to get your book printed either as hardback book or hand bound in leather book.
Our promise
Legacy Interviews is helping overcome one of the most important problems facing families today: how to ensure our most valuable inheritance is passed down, our story.
We understand that these recordings may become the most valuable heirloom in your family.
I promise to treat your stories with the respect and confidentiality they deserve. Each interview is unique and will provide your loved one an opportunity to pass down the stories that matter most.
The Legacy Interviews Team discussing our promise to clients.