Our Mission
Our mission is to provide a secure platform to collect, archive and share legacy stories that represent the living history of the 20th and 21st centuries, and to connect those families to collaboratively build their legacy regardless of geographic impediments.
Our Team
As the official archive and gathering place for the Living Legacy Project, LegacyStories.Org is the culmination of 5 years of research, development, building strategic alliances, and an unwavering focus on achieving our ultimate goal: To create a global interactive archive of personal life experiences and accumulated wisdom to better understand each others' cultures and heritage. Our team is brimming with wonderful, caring and well-informed experts. More than that, we are a family:
Dennis Stack, CEO - Dennis is founder of Project StoryKeeper, a 501c3 non-profit, which created the Family StoryKeeper Course in 2003 and the basis of the Living Legacy Plan. The course is now in use in over 800 Hospices, Home Care, Assisted Living and Veterans centers. He trained more than 5,000 volunteers and students to perform the role of StoryKeepers in their respective communities.
Tom Cormier, President - A US Marine and Vietnam Veteran, Tom developed the Living Legacy Project and it’s primary elements, the International Association of StoryKeepers (I-ASK) and LegacyStories.org. This endeavor follows his preservation and historic renovation of Telliquah, a vintage mountain town near the Great Smoky Mountains while recording the oral histories of its native residents. Tom is former CEO and radio talk host of Let's Talk America, airing on over 450 stations in the US and Canada, promoting the message of personal development and achievement.
Ellen Fernandez-Sacco, PhD. - Visiting Scholar with the Office for the History of Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. Co-Founder of Sociedad Ancestros Mocanos, Puerto Rican Genealogical Society. Her passion for preserving cultural legacies is unmatched as is her knowledge of genealogical research methods. Ellen brings her skill and talent to LegacyStories.Org and is developing a series of training workshops to help all of our Personal Legacy Advisors hone their skills.
Annie Payne - One of Australia's most experienced personal historians, Annie started collecting family legacy stories in 1988 as part of Australia's Bi-Centennial Project and never stopped. Her passion for helping others capture and record their stories is typified in the name of her business- "History from the Heart". Annie is spearheading our drive to launch the Living Legacy Project not only in Australia and New Zealand but throughout SE Asia and Ociania.
Golden Adams – Golden is an Accredited Genealogist® for Mid-South and Gulf South Regions. A member of Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and National Genealogical Society (NGS), he owns and operates Adams Genealogical and Legacy Services and is a FamilySearch® Indexing Specialist and FamilySearch FamilyTree® Consultant. Golden is a career middle school science educator and a Founding Ambassador of the International Association of StoryKeepers (I-ASK).
Kathy Larsen - Kathy is a family history enthusiast and professional photo scanning specialist. She is also a consultant for a prominent online scrap booking company and an indexing specialist for Family Search. Since 2007 Kathy has served on the development team for the International Association of StoryKeepers (I-ASK) and has assisted in website testing and project development for LegacyStories.org. She will be providing specialized training videos about the business of photo scanning for I-ASK members.
Karen Mack - Karen is Director of Communications to our LegacyStories.org members. She is a Founding Ambassador of the International Association of StoryKeepers (I-ASK), and is also a professional photo scanning specialist and StoryKeeper. She has served on our development team since 2007.
Jennifer Cornine - Jennifer is an award-winning broadcast journalist and educator. She currently mentors up and coming journalists on the importance of visual storytelling and the impact that it can have on society. Her motto is "Everyone has a story to tell... our job is to help them tell it." Jennifer's company, Firefly Video & Media Services, is committed to the art of storytelling for both business and personal legacies.
Pat White - Pat serves as a Great Lakes regional coordinator for the Association of Personal Historians. By profession a music educator and court reporter, Pat’s interest in personal history began with wanting to record her mother’s stories. However, as dementia took hold and her mom’s stories faded, Pat picked up on the idea of using photo posters with captions to tell a mini life story. Her online business became PostersAsTherapy.com in 2010 and is now affiliated with LegacyStories.org. Pat is a top leader of the Living Legacy Project and Founding Ambassador of I-ASK.
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