We help individuals with their personal legacy work.
We seek to encapsulate people’s life and soul into viewable, readable pieces that can be shared for generations to come.
With each individual, we write a series of questions and prompts curated to their life, story, and personality, and create a memoir session that is unhurried and curious.
We believe it is hearing someone’s story in their own voice, that is the powerful history worth passing down.
Dorothy recalls her first crush.
We craft hand bound transcriptions to accompany digital copies of your recorded memoir.
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A thoughtfully guided interview tailored to your personal story and intentions.
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A guided conversation into remembering your childhoods together, with the intention to learn about each other and share a deeper understanding of your individual origins.
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A personal message capturing one’s values, beliefs, and what matters most. Treated as an ethical will, sent and delivered with care.
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A visual catalogue of heirlooms paired with a recorded conversation about their history and significance.
Dorothy Jean Minor
Dorothy Jean Minor
Dorothy Jean Minor was born on December the 12th, 1948. Just after her 77th birthday, we worked on her Heirloom Interview. It was a sunny day in early January of 2026. A cat named Java wanders in and out of the frame, and Dorothy is sporting all jean: a jean jacket, a jean cap, and jean pants.
Her intentions with an Heirloom Interview were to get her personal message on video, so it could be shared more easily with others.
“People don’t have to succomb to adversity. They can rise above it. That’s my message.”
Johanna Brunken was born on January 13th, 1932. She is the daughter a German dad and a Dutch mother. For the last several years, with the help of her daughter, Linda, she has been working on writing her life’s story, her memoir.
The intention of her Heirloom Interview was to add her personhood to the mix, give her grandchildren and future curious generations a sense of what she’s like beyond the written word.
Her interview was a beautiful experience, watching her recall her past, and open up about personal vulnerabilities.
Johanna Sally Brunken
Johanna Sally Brunken
When my great Aunt Bonnie passed on in 2024, my mom and I discovered a cassette she had recorded with my great-great-grandmother, Effie Winn. I was able to convert that into an .mp3 and I heard her voice for the first time, recalling her life in the Wild West. What was an utterly mundane life to her was the most interesting, meaningful story to me. Really, it was hearing her voice that began this journey into founding Heirloom Interviews.
Hearing her voice shifted something in me. Time can be carried and preserved. The way we speak, remember, and love can mark a moment forever.
That’s the heartbeat of this work. I believe that our stories are valuable to humanity. Someone, someday, will hear your voice and understand themselves better because of it.
-Loren Cowgill, Founder
