Archive Americana
This is now, that was then!
Synchronista LLC is proud to announce our latest site — ArchiveAmericana.com, where you can rediscover your history… and find out a whole lot more.
This is now, that was then
Today, we have countless different ways to preserve our legacy — from posting photos online to tweeting updates to contributing to community websites our words, audio, video and still photography.
Our forebears regularly communicated about what filled their days, too. Those records, though, take a lot of work to access because they’re not directly compatible with today’s technology. But while researching our own genealogy, we found — scattered here, there and everywhere — little bits and pieces of a puzzle that helped define and color our family tree.
Finally, instead of envisioning our distant relatives as sepia-toned paper dolls moving against a hazy, grainy backdrop, we started to get a real sense of the events and experiences that shaped their lives… and ultimately made possible our own.
Archive Americana is here to take the ideas and interests and impressions of way back then and bring them up to the here and now. By culling old records, revisiting old news stories, discovering long-lost recipes and dusting off photographs and drawings of the past, we’re working to make history truly a part of this digital age.
In American schools, kids learn about ancient rituals of countless other cultures — even though we don’t know too much about what everyday life was really like for our great-great-great grandparents and the generations that came before. While we have what’s in our history books, what’s been lost to time are so many of the everyday details of life for our ancestors.
And by bringing some of history forward, it’s our hope that we can learn from, be enlightened by, and ultimately truly appreciate our own forgotten legacies.
This is now, that was then
Today, we have countless different ways to preserve our legacy — from posting photos online to tweeting updates to contributing to community websites our words, audio, video and still photography.
Our forebears regularly communicated about what filled their days, too. Those records, though, take a lot of work to access because they’re not directly compatible with today’s technology. But while researching our own genealogy, we found — scattered here, there and everywhere — little bits and pieces of a puzzle that helped define and color our family tree.
Finally, instead of envisioning our distant relatives as sepia-toned paper dolls moving against a hazy, grainy backdrop, we started to get a real sense of the events and experiences that shaped their lives… and ultimately made possible our own.
Archive Americana is here to take the ideas and interests and impressions of way back then and bring them up to the here and now. By culling old records, revisiting old news stories, discovering long-lost recipes and dusting off photographs and drawings of the past, we’re working to make history truly a part of this digital age.
In American schools, kids learn about ancient rituals of countless other cultures — even though we don’t know too much about what everyday life was really like for our great-great-great grandparents and the generations that came before. While we have what’s in our history books, what’s been lost to time are so many of the everyday details of life for our ancestors.
And by bringing some of history forward, it’s our hope that we can learn from, be enlightened by, and ultimately truly appreciate our own forgotten legacies.
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Today, we have countless different ways to preserve our legacy — from posting photos online to tweeting updates to contributing to community websites our words, audio, video and still photography.
Our forebears regularly communicated about what filled their days, too. Those records, though, take a lot of work to access because they’re not directly compatible with today’s technology. But while researching our own genealogy, we found — scattered here, there and everywhere — little bits and pieces of a puzzle that helped define and color our family tree.
Finally, instead of envisioning our distant relatives as sepia-toned paper dolls moving against a hazy, grainy backdrop, we started to get a real sense of the events and experiences that shaped their lives… and ultimately made possible our own.
Archive Americana is here to take the ideas and interests and impressions of way back then and bring them up to the here and now. By culling old records, revisiting old news stories, discovering long-lost recipes and dusting off photographs and drawings of the past, we’re working to make history truly a part of this digital age.
In American schools, kids learn about ancient rituals of countless other cultures — even though we don’t know too much about what everyday life was really like for our great-great-great grandparents and the generations that came before. While we have what’s in our history books, what’s been lost to time are so many of the everyday details of life for our ancestors.
And by bringing some of history forward, it’s our hope that we can learn from, be enlightened by, and ultimately truly appreciate our own forgotten legacies.