American Legacies Org, Inc., is a Non-Profit organization that has been in existence since 1996 and is dedicated to preserving life’s historical memories. We accomplish this by talking with Senior Citizens and collecting personal stories about their own lives as they were growing up. We also collect stories that have been passed onto them from parents, grandparents and others.
Our organization is run entirely by Non-Paid volunteers. We exist by reaching out to Freelance Writers, Editors, Typists, Proofreaders, Print Media Designers, Web Masters and others from all over America, that are willing to donate their time and knowledge in return for the name recognition and experience, or to simply help collect and preserve the memories about their own relatives, friends or local citizens.
We encourage our volunteers to visit local nursing homes, senior Citizen Centers and other locations where they can meet and talk with local residents. During those conversations, we “hope” the volunteers will use an audio or video recorder (with permission) in order to get the precise authentic wording and language from the individuals they are interviewing.
After these stories are written, we offer FREE copies of the audio or video recordings as well as free digital and/or printed copies of the stories to the subject, family members and local libraries.
In spite of the fact that we use Non-Paid Volunteers, we still have plenty of expenses. Therefore, we are always looking for financial donations to assist us in paying for our Web-Servers, Computers, Back-Up Hard-drives, Fireproof File Cabinets, Printing Equipment, Insurance, etc.
Therefore if you would like to help support this effort, either by donating some time and talents or with financial donations, please contact us.
Since our main office is located in Spencer County, if there is anyone living within driving range of Grandview that would be interested in assisting us in scanning thousands of documents and photographs, please let us know.
Thank You.
FTW
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