Preserving Family History - Episode 86

The Intangible Balance Sheet Podcast

Welcome to this week’s edition of Wisdom and Wealth! October is family history month and to expand on this topic, I invited Heather Nickerson from Artifcts on to the podcast to discuss how her online platform can help families capture and preserve the stories and memories.

Heather has an incredible background after a successful career in government service and as an entrepreneur, but She started Artifcts after organizing her late mother's home on Cape Cod. After seven months, she was still struggling to understand the stories behind the numerous heirlooms and items the estate held. Yes some things held market value, but what about the sentimental value, “intangible value,” or instructional value of an item? This experience caused her to think through how to create a solution for families to both organize their possessions and their memories and ideas. What if you could capture the family history represented in an old photo or journal entry? Artifcts seeks to accomplish just that.
As a personal example Heather shares how she has captured the stories behind an old pair of boots that she wore in Afghanistan and how she has captured the symbolism and meaning behind those boots via Artifcts! This is literally a central place for a family to capture all their audio and video and photos and share them for their family legacy.
Music by bensound.com