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Pass It Down is a storytelling company that helps organizations and communities around the world collect, preserve, and showcase their history and culture.

Their award-winning platform can help any organization "create an amazing digital museum in minutes that will make an incredible impact on their employees, customers, and culture."

Companies and organizations can showcase much more of their collection by including digital media in their exhibits, where 1000's of stories and images can be displayed just by touching the screen and changing the collection.

For some examples of how Pass It Down has helped organizations tell their stories and exhibit their collections, visit:

The Chattanooga Memory Project Lake Forest-Lake Bluff History Center, open house

Their program updates and improves the user experience when searching for online collections and stories and when visiting a museum or exhibit in person. Images and Stories are displayed on the front-en…

AntonyArt Digital Retouching is a professional photo restoration service owned and operated by Anton Artemov.

AntonyArt specializes in:

Old photo restoration Restoring torn photos Colorizing black & white photos Restoring faded colors in photos Creating photo montages

Visit their site for prices and services and for an explanation of How to Place an Order & Request an Estimate.

Watch AntonyArt YouTube videos to get an idea of the services they're able to provide. Here are two examples:

Video_1: Restoration of a badly damaged old photo.

Video_2: Photo Retouching.

Your DNA Family is a website and app created by Andreas West with tools for analyzing your DNA test results. Your DNA Family currently accepts test results from Family Tree DNA (FTDNA), AncestryDNA, and 23andMe.

 

This site is currently in beta testing. The site accepts autosomal DNA test results but may accept Y-DNA and mTDNA results at some future date.

The Your DNA Family app has a free version which permits: triangulation, by following manual mode instructions communication with your DNA cousins in closed, private groups (your email is never revealed) matches, segment data and TG's neatly organized and always accessible

 

The Your DNA Family app paid version includes: unlimited accounts across different DNA testing companies matches, segment data and regularly scheduled, automatic imports of new matches & segment data triangulation, just click and triangulation for all DNA tests is performed automatically additional DNA matches using th…

bespokeGenealogy is a genealogy company owned by Alistair McGowan specializing in UK family history research.

Services include:

Archival Research Family History Reports House Histories Research Trip Planning

Follow the bespokeGenealogy blog and follow them on Pinterest for great research tips for England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.

TSOLife, The Story of Life, is a personal history preservation service for both individuals and organizations. They have a mobile iOS app that can be used to record and upload personal stories, oral histories, and videos.

 

The cost for an individual account is $14.99/month and any stories recorded during that month will be included in your final product. They use AI software to transcribe and edit uploaded videos into smaller, topic-oriented stories that can be viewed in shorter segments. When you're done telling stories, you stop paying for the app and you still have access to your recorded stories. You can download the audio and video; printed options are a feature they're considering in 2019. You need a community code to sign in and create an account in the app. They have a list of recommended questions and topics. You can mark the questions that have been asked so you don't duplicate your efforts. Family members receive email updates when a resident has upload…

The Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) was founded in 1961 and is the largest family history association in Ontario, Canada. They have a robust website with helpful resources for members and non-members alike. Free and fee Canadian genealogy resources include:

OGS Libraries (book collections include over 3,000 donated family histories) Cemeteries & Name Indexes (now part of TONI-see below) Unregistered Cemeteries (a list of unregistered cemeteries by County/District) How to Research Your Family History (tips for researchers) Unidentified Photographs The Ontario Name Index (TONI) (Shows where information about a name can be found-over 3,125,927 records!) OGS Provincial Index (OGSPI) Ontario Records and Resources (Links to other sources for Canadian family history research records) Ontario Locator (GPS and County/Branch for every municipality in Ontario)

  The OGS hosts an annual genealogy conference and has a quarterly publication, Families.