Samuel Dailey

Here's a small documentary piece my father and I put together awhile back about my great grandfather on my Dad's side. We spent a few hours one day scanning / filming old photo's, transferring old films and the like. Then I set up the camera and filmed my Dad talking generally about the Dailey ancestral history and then, more specifically, information about Samuel. I later edited the footage and grabbed one of my acoustic guitars (Larrivee OM-05) and quickly came up with a little ditty to play in the background. It was a bit labor intensive on the production side but I thought it came out pretty cool. This whole thing was really a test to see what it would take to make more extensive documentaries about one's ancestors.

The idea is two fold:

1. Preserve genealogical information in a digital form that can be archived long term and converted to new formats as technology changes.

2. Provide a presentation about ones ancestors that is more personal and visually interesting than just reading manuscripts about them.

Of course, there is no way to match a written history for a fully comprehensive account of one's life. But, hopefully, short little films such as the following will bring interest to the younger generations to dig deeper into the lives of those who preceded them.