The Linville Family:

Bringing Memories to Life Randy Linville believes in the value of building and preserving family memories. That’s why he journals every week, whyhe sorts out his favorite photos at the end of each year, and why he takes his family on international trips as often as possible. With more than a decade’s worth of favorite photos and six years of weekly journals, Randy had a wealth of memories, insights, and values to pass on to his two kids.

However, his family didn’t have access to that content—most of which was stored solely on Randy’s personal devices—and the demands of Randy’s schedule as a father, a CEO, and a board member for a number of organizations made it obvious that he lacked the time he needed to organize and preserve his memories. "In our family, I’m the one who likes to take pictures—not because I’m good at it but because I want to memorialize the occasion,” Randy said. “I got in the mode of capturing pictures, thinking I would do something with them when a rainy day came along.

Ten years later, I had 10,000 or more pictures." FamilyArc provided one central, private location for Randy to share his memories and stories with his family, and our team of creative professionals came alongside him to make his vision for creating a meaningful, accessible family legacy into a reality.

Designing the Archive The FamilyArc team worked with Randy to gather more than 2,500 digital photos from his personal devices and upload them to one location on his archive’s Library. Archivists then designed his photos into visual stories and organized them along an interactive timeline on the archive’s Storyline. Randy’s daughter, Grace, doesn’t particularly love having Dad take her photo all the time. But after seeing her favorite photos on her family’s archive, she began to view things differently. "When Grace looked at the Storyline, she said, 'Dad, you’re a really good photographer.' It was a totally different kind of feedback,” Randy said. "And then she got to see the Storyline of our family from when she was little—things she had forgotten about—to today. She got to see the benefit of capturing family photos, and the vision I had of what our archive could be.