Helping families capture and preserve their history.
YOUR FAMILY STORIES REVEAL THE HISTORY, CHOICES, AND VALUES THAT HAVE SUSTAINED YOU.
We help your family identify the family or family business legacy that you want to preserve.
We then produce a historical artifact for future generations. It may be a table book, a memoir or family business biography, a video anthology, or another type of family heirloom.
We call this a Family Legacy Keepsake, a record for future generations.
THE MAKING OF A LEGACY KEEPSAKE
Many families aspire to capture their rich family and family business history before it slips away.
Stories often fade as the older generation slips away one by one. Our two-part process helps families transform their history into a legacy that endures for future generations.
LEGACY DISCOVERY
The process begins with the Family Meeting, held wherever the family chooses.
Through in-depth interviews, spanning several days, we surface the family’s history, defining moments, values, and culture.
In follow-up interviews, we work with the family to identify pivotal stories and key values.
The family then receives a Legacy Blueprint. This is a multi-page historical roadmap. The Blueprint breaks the family’s history into defined periods. We call these “Eras.”
We organize the stories into digestible sections, like a chapter in a book or a scene in a documentary.
The Discovery Phase concludes when the Legacy Blueprint is finalized and approved by the family. The Blueprint is the plan for the next phase.
LEGACY KEEPSAKE
This is the hard work of researching, writing, and designing the Legacy Keepsake.
A Legacy Keepsake can be a memoir, a biography, a table book, a video anthology, or other historically meaningful artifact.
For each Era of your family’s history, we interview the family, stakeholders, customers, partners, and others.
We supplement this oral research with archival, historical, and, if needed, genealogical research.
Then we craft the stories and history of your family, one Era at a time.
The family reviews each Era, offering edits and feedback before we move on to the next.Â
Era by Era, the story is created.
Once the writing is complete—and approved—we move into design and production, where the Legacy Keepsake takes its final form and is produced.
IS NOW THE TIME TO PRESERVE YOUR HISTORY?
Time waits for no generation.
“There are so many stories, more beautiful than answers.” – Mary OliverÂ
SCHEDULE A 15-MINUTE CONSULT HERE!THEÂ ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER PODCAST
One Generation to Another is for families and family businesses who are thinking about capturing their story and want to know what the process looks like. Each episode addresses the real questions families ask when they begin the process. You can find all episodes in our archive here.
HOW CAN WE UNCOVER THE MEANING BEHIND OUR FAMILY'S STORIES?
Most families have a collection of stories, but without context, those stories are mere events—things that happened. It’s legacy that helps us understand how experiences shaped beliefs, values, and purpose. This episode shares five questions that will help you turn a routine family interview into something that pulls meaning out of memory.Â
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts here.
Listen to episode on Spotify here.
HOW DO WE IDENTIFY THE KEY TURNING POINTS IN OUR FAMILYÂ HISTORY STORY?
One of the simplest ways to organize your family history is to identify the moments when something shifted—within the family, the business, or both. We call those defining moments tentpole scenes. This episode explains what tentpole scenes are, and how to identify them—so you can create a legacy that is meaningful for the next generation.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts here.
Listen to the episode on Spotify here.
WHAT IS A FAMILY LEGACY KEEPSAKE?
When family businesses first set out to capture and preserve their story, they expect to end up with a physical product. That final product is part of the process, but what we at Journey Sixty6 actually create is something bigger: a Family Legacy Keepsake. This episode gets to the heart of what a Family Legacy Keepsake really is.Â
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts here.
Listen to the episode on Spotify here.
OURÂ HISTORY BOOK PROJECTS
We work with families to write biographies, founder memoirs, table books, and other Legacy Keepsakes to capture their history and ensure their stories are preserved for generations.
See more of our history works here.
FOUNDERÂ BIOGRAPHY
The founders of Muth Electric, a 55-year-old electrical construction company located in Mitchell, South Dakota, recently transitioned their family business to the second generation. That transition inspired the couple to capture their story. They approached Journey Sixty6 with a simple wish: for future generations to know how exactly Muth Electric got its start—and the values that carried them forward. What came out of the Discovery Phase was the Legacy Blueprint for the final Legacy Keepsake: a 10-chapter book, later titled Wired to Figure It Out. Journey Sixty6 conducted the interviews—three generations of family members, plus business partners and friends—ghostwrote, designed, and published the book.Â
FAMILY BUSINESS LEGACY ANTHOLOGY
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 history 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.
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.
A FAMILY BUSINESS FABLE
This two-year writing and publication journey required intense collaboration between the author and Journey Sixty6. Through our one-on-one coaching, we provided the author with conceptual guidance, helping him conceive the book idea and then shape the narrative into a compelling fable. We provided developmental editing throughout the process as well as a line edit near the book's completion, ensuring a professional manuscript. Through our Big Snowy Media imprint, we published the book in both print and digital formats.
FAMILY BUSINESS VIDEO ANTHOLOGY
Neuco, Inc., a North American HVAC company, tells its story.
This 118-year-old, Chicago-based family business engaged us to create a video anthology and table book to capture its history. 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. Today, Neuco, Inc. is the North American leader in its business category.
