How far back do your roots go?

Your heritage may trace back to medieval days or even further - perhaps even back to the days of Attila the Hun? We can put your story together for you starting with a brief history of your heritage.

Here are some of the various "scenes" we can produce for your heritage video. When put together on a single DVD, you'll see the entire uncut version of your family heritage.

• Scene 1: A Brief History of...
• Scene 2: Coming to America - Legacy Story Book format
• Scene 3: Coming to America Documentary
• Scene 4: Early Family Tree and Ancestry
• Scene 5: Focus on Main Subject
• Scene 6: Early Days
• Scene 7: Tribute Sequences
• Scene 8: Contemporary Family Trees
• Scene 9: Credits

Please contact us at info@heritagespotlight.com if you would like to find out more about having your family heritage produced.

Scene 1: A Brief History...

Your family history starts out with the town of origin of your ancestors, grandparent or great grandparent then trace the areas history as far back as possible to give perspective to your heritage.

In this sample video, through immigration records, we found the town of origin for this family to be Hrensko, Hungary. But how did Hungary get there? Well, we found out that Attila the Hun and the Great Moravian Empire had something to do with that!

Scene 2: Coming to America - Story Book

Once we establish the background information we begin to focus on how your family actually got started in America. You may have immigration records or we can help you find them if you don't. In this next set of samples, we show a "Story Book" format which can be a bit more entertaining for children. This video tells the story of Vito coming to America and meeting Angeline.

Scene 3: Coming to America - Documentary

The story continues with a documentary format of a trans-atlantic voyage. This is where we show the steamship, photos of the era, time lines and dates. Your family history is documented as never before. This sample video is the story of Andrew and Lucia "Coming to America" from Europe in the late 1800's. Lucia's steamship runs into trouble along the way...

Easy to store, easy to view and easy to share, your video production is a family heirloom that makes a most unique and wonderful gift that everyone can enjoy for a lifetime! We can produce your video in full Hi-Def 1920x1080i on Blu-Ray DVD, standard HQ DVD or even PC readable MPEG and WMV formats!

Scene 4: Early Family Tree and Ancestry

This scene shows the earliest photos you might have. With your help, we put together your early family tree and show the photos in sequence by panning and zooming into the photo on the tree which leads to an orderly sequence of displaying the entire family.

Scene 5: Focus on the Main Subject

In this scene we begin to focus on your direct ancestors (parents, grand parents or great grandparents). In this video, we had enough photos to put together a complete life tribute to Lucy (Lucia).

Scene 6: Early Days

Depending upon what photos you have, we can show how your parents, grandparents or great grandparents dressed, lived and played when they were younger.

Scene 7: Tributes Sequence

This is where we can insert any individual military tributes, special events or other items of interest.

Scene 8: Contemporary Family Trees

We put together a pictorial family tree of your modern day family and we set it in motion, traveling down and about the diagram showing all of the family members. Depending on the size of your family, this can be a fairly large set of videos. This sample family heritage had over 200 people!

Scene 9: Credits

Putting together a Heritage is a big project so this is where we give credit where credit is due. You will be coordinating many family members by collecting photos and information.