Services

The Overview

Given modern digital platforms, the global reach of audio, video, print, and multimedia technologies, unlimited cloud storage platforms, and remote meeting services, the possibilities for capturing oral histories are endless.

We begin with a collaborative, guided conversation to help you assess and determine the recording format, topics, length, and budget of your project. A skilled interviewer and researcher then comprehensively gathers and professionally records your unique stories. At the conclusion of your project, you receive both hard copies and a digital oral history archive— beautifully designed to last as a legacy heirloom for generations to come

Our services include, but are not limited to the following.

Recorded Interviews
Digital Audio
High Definition Video
P rint Services (transcripts, books & memoirs, short biographies, coaching & editing, online classes)
Remote Services (remote audio & video interviews, all print services, genealogical research, digitization & archiving of photos, heirlooms, documents, letters, etc.)
Other (training & consultation, public speaking, other resources)

If you do not see what you are looking for, we can probably create it for you!

In oral history as in journalism, accuracy is paramount. As the retired Washington bureau chief of The Milwaukee Journal and its successor, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I worked with Anita Hecht on the William Proxmire Oral History Project. Throughout the project, Ms. Hecht was thoroughly professional, but most importantly, the end product was impeccably accurate and professionally executed.

Frank Aukofer

Retired Journalist, Washington DC, US Senator William Proxmire Oral History Project of the Wisconsin Historical Society

You conduct the interviews with insight, being inquisitive enough to make it interesting and yet with the discretion to make the person feel comfortable

Ariel Cojuc

Grandmother, Mexico

I wanted you to know how meaningful the making of the oral history was for me. You are just a pro.

Fae

Grandmother, California

Being videotaped was so much easier than I had anticipated. Many of my concerns were eliminated at our first preliminary meeting.

Raymond Marks

Banker, California

It’s been a wonderful experience. One great advantage of an oral history conducted by a pro, like yourself, is you think at the time you know everything you’re going to say and remember. And then in the context of a focused, professional interview, a light goes on and you remember things that had been buried. We’re talking about the obvious, and suddenly, buried, hidden under the obvious, is new stuff. It’s wonderful!”

Kenneth Roy Feinberg

Attorney, Special Master, 911 Victim Compensation Fund

You have a way of putting your subjects at ease and making them feel as though they and their personal stories are the most important of all the ones you have done.

Marvin Schonberg

Administrator/Writer, California

Your gentle questioning and sympathetic manner helped me search and express ideas that had never occurred to me, but lay buried in my subconscious.

Joseph

Cantor-Educator, California

I have done several limited oral histories for certain parts of my public life, but yours was more of a complete picture of my role as U.S. Secretary of Education. I am very pleased with the final product. You handled the interview, written biography, and transcript in a professional and effective manner. It would be a pleasure for me to recommend you to others for a very professionally-done oral history.

Richard Riley

Former U.S. Secretary of Education & Governor of South Carolina, States’ Impact on Federal Education Policy Oral History Project

My parents felt comfortable with you and shared details that might have been lost forever had you not been such an experienced and professional interviewer.

Edith

Editor, Wisconsin

I did not think that I was deserving of being put on tape. [However], this record of my personal history will give me a kind of immortality, touching the minds and hearts of my grandchildren.

Harold

Grandfather, California