Because stories are forgotten if left untold
Incredible Quality
You’ll notice the difference in our research, storytelling, design, and publication. Product quality is our highest priority.
Personal Concierge
We provide the highest level of service to our clients, handling every last detail. Select services based on your needs.
Full Custom
We work with you to establish a design for your Legacy Book that is based on your unique project—no carbon-copy design.
legacy books
Established in 2007
Our story began with the creation of our first Legacy Book. The work was exhilarating, and we poured ourselves into it.
The outcome provided a surviving mother with a cherished keepsake of her daughter, crafted with hundreds of photos and stories. Legacy Books was born.
Our Services
We are here to help you capture and preserve
We have a vast array of services to help you with your project. It doesn’t matter if you are just starting or you are in the middle, we can help. Don’t leave your family legacy to chance with someone else. Our friendly and talented staff will help guide you to get your project done.
Storytelling & editing
From photography and typography to layout and illustration, our design team boasts seasoned artists whose painstaking pride in their work makes every Legacy book as pleasing to see as it is to read. And their technical expertise ensures that every project is produced with precise attention to detail, whether digital or in print.
Interviewing
For our team of storytellers, interviewing is the rewarding art of uncovering the nuances and narratives that drive to the heart of a legacy. Asking the right questions is key; making participants feel comfortable is essential. Our personal touch results in stories that bring legacies to life.
Research
Effective research unlocks rich, seemingly lost historical information. Photographs, stories, awards, memories—and the rich tapestry of values, character, and personality they represent—are mined to inspire the readers of every Legacy book.
Project Management
With decades of combined experience in book creation, our project managers have established processes and workflows that ensure breathtaking results—on time and within budget. By jointly setting clear expectations and communicating with unparalleled clarity, we consistently provide our customers with an exceptional experience and a stunning finished product.
Design & Layout
An indispensable trademark of every Legacy book is the emotion felt through the richness of its cover, the grain of its paper and the subtle crack of its spine—every moment adding to the anticipation of the story that awaits. Selecting the right materials to match each project ensures a tactile experience that consumes the reader. The publication of your Legacy book will bear the indelible mark of the pride we pour into it.
Printing & Binding
Whether crafting a series of short stories or building a broad narrative, our writers and editors weave the priceless recollections gathered through research and interviews into a timeless finished product. Every book is a unique opportunity to preserve a legacy, so we match each project to the Legacy writer whose tone is best suited to provide just the right voice.
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Our Products
All of our services are customized to meet your exact vision. After a decade of serving clients, we know what needs to be done and how to do it. You can be involved as much, or as little as you’d like.
Families
Preserve your family legacy.
No matter where you are in the process—researching, writing, scanning, designing, publishing, and everything in between—we’re ready to help you capture, protect, and showcase your family’s legacy.
Families
Capture Your Professional Career Legacy
No matter where you are in the process—researching, writing, scanning, designing, publishing, and everything in between—we’re ready to help you capture, protect, and showcase your professional legacy.
Organizations
Capture your organization’s Legacy.
No matter where you are in the process—researching, writing, scanning, designing, publishing, and everything in between—we’re ready to help you capture, protect, and showcase your organization’s legacy.
LEGACY BOOKS
Testimonials
“You have done a wonderful job with a book that will last for generations, andWriting a book about our ancestors was enjoyable and exciting for me. However, when the suggestion came that the stories be printed and bound, I was clueless. I had no idea how to proceed and the task seemed daunting.
Fortunately, my niece put us in touch with Legacy Books. We met with a representative who explained the process and timeline. After that I was greatly assisted as I completed the final edits for the book. In fact one of the editors at Legacy even came to my home to guide me through the technological aspects of the edits that I did not understand. Associates at Legacy Books were ALWAYS available and quickly answered my questions, even pleasantly!
I have the highest regard for Legacy Books. The final book on our ancestors matches their noble lives in the quality of presentation! We are very pleased and highly recommend Legacy Books. I’m very grateful for the professionalism you have shown putting it together. Our family is so impressed with the detail, quality, and content along with the general look, touch, and feel of the book. It truly is a legacy of our family.”
“I had been researching my family for several decades and wanted to publish it to preserve it for my posterity. In Legacy Books, I found a highly professional, full-service publisher. I went to the best! I sent the book to genealogical societies where my ancestors lived. Many expressed their admiration for the high quality of the book, and one called it the ‘Gold Standard’ of how to publish a family history. Thanks so much.”
“You have done a wonderful job with a book that will last for generations, and I’m very grateful for the professionalism you have shown putting it together. Our family is so impressed with the detail, quality, and content along with the general look, touch, and feel of the book. It truly is a legacy of our family.”
“I can’t thank you enough for the work you, Katrina and your staff did on Aunt Margaret’s book. The result is far more impressive than the manuscripts I inherited from Dad. As a life-long journalist and editor, Dad compiled Margaret’s family letters with reports from other missionaries into a fascinating account of Margaret’s time in the Congo, including the revolution of the 1960s which resulted in the Congo’s independence from Belgium.
Your suggestions for formatting the text and adding illustrations, including those you found through your own research, have made the book far better than I imagined. I think Dad and Margaret both would be proud of the result.”“I have nothing but praise for the professional assistance and results provided by John Catron and the Legacy team on our Family’s heritage book. It is a keepsake we will treasure for many years. I continue to enjoy the challenge of Ancestry and DNA research. Thank you!”
“My husband passed away about 9 months ago. As a way of paying tribute to his memory, I compiled his journal entries and asked Legacy Books to take over the process of completing his book. The staff was easy to work with, and their main focus was to make a book as professional as possible. They tried to focus on spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and grouped pictures with labels for each person. They also made an index, listing names of people included in his journal, their relationship, and the pages where the people could be found in the text. The staff worked fairly fast and wanted to please me.
The book was just recently completed and published, and it was beautifully done. My children were so excited and amazed at the book. They have been constantly reading and enjoying my husband’s history. They can hardly put the book down, as it has become a lasting memory of his life. I highly recommend Legacy Books for their dedication in making a lovely book that will be a lasting treasure in our family.”“Finding out you were adopted is confronting; contemplating how to tell your family is overwhelming. So when John Catron and his team at Legacy Books took my limited documents, a pedigree from MyHeritage, and a few photographs and turned it into a family history, I had a solution.
Legacy Books was able to step me through the process, always discussing and obtaining my approval for each component of the book before proceeding. With great sensitivity and attention to detail, they created a narrative of lineage, where there had been none. What more can I say? 5-star customer service. Thank you, John.”“I am getting rave reviews from my whole family! And even though I wrote the book, along with Miriam, for my own benefit, the recognition and appreciation from my family is beyond satisfying.”
“Legacy Books has been my support with attention to every detail. From the moment I met John Catron, the director of the company, it was like the curtain came up, and the lights came on–shining brightly on the possibilities for my book, Full House at 3417 Wycliffe. Eschler editors helped me accomplish the interior of my book, but all the refining details of end-pages, binding, the linen cover, foils, and dyes were handled expertly by Legacy Books. Listening and allowing me to be involved with specific wishes were very important to me.
While COVID-19 and its variants have provided me with more available time to research, write, and create, the resulting uncertainties had some drawbacks with delays and supply chain challenges in labor and materials. During this time of changing schedules and deadlines delays, consistent FaceTime contacts were made, along with reviews of designs, materials, and reassurances of any doubts or fears. With confidence, Legacy Books has stayed right by my side. The end result has been the exciting reality of a beautifully bound book.”“I’ve been wanting to preserve my father’s military history for quite some time but didn’t know where to start given the 1000’s of documents he saved over the years of his service…. This was a story that was begging to be told and I was further inspired by a particular letter my father wrote to his mother that was included in a package of photos that he sent during the war exhorting her ‘to take good care’ of the items.
Fortunately I found Legacy Books during an online search and decided to give John Catron a call. I found him to be very helpful and clearly knowledgeable on how to best approach this project. Over the next few months he patiently guided me using a framework that was effective in not only putting a logical order to the material but also weaving in my father’s story including tying together his later community service. The result is simply incredible – a beautiful book that will tell this aspect of my father’s life to many generations to come. We indeed took good care. Thank you so much Legacy Books!”“I am very pleased with how the book in its final form came out. I will definitely use Legacy Books again in order to publish my next book…. I can happily and confidently say… that Legacy Books is outstanding. They are a customer oriented, quality team who produce a high-quality product!”
“I ultimately chose Legacy Books [to publish my research] because I liked the product John Catron promised to deliver and I liked the people. I also liked the location near the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, just in case I needed someone to get a copy (or a better copy) of a document I needed for the appendix. In the end, I probably used all the talents and services at Legacy Books in producing my spectacular 735-page volume titled Anthony Lewis of Isle of Wight County, Virginia.
I have distributed approximately a hundred copies of the book to libraries, genealogical societies, archives and, of course, to family members and friends. For acceptance in some libraries, a submitted book must go first to a review committee, and I am pleased to report that every committee has approved the book. The praise for the work, which obviously includes the quality of the published product as well as the genealogical work, has been effusive and gratifying.
The genealogy of my line of the Lewis family is everything I had hoped it would be. The book is outstanding!”“Writing a book about our ancestors was enjoyable and exciting for me. However, when the suggestion came that the stories be printed and bound, I was clueless. I had no idea how to proceed and the task seemed daunting.
I was greatly assisted as I completed the final edits for the book. In fact, one of the editors at Legacy Books even came to my home to guide me through the technological aspects of the edits that I did not understand. Associates at Legacy Books were ALWAYS available and quickly answered my questions, even pleasantly! The final book on our ancestors matches their noble lives!”
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All of our services are customized to meet your vision. With over a decade of servicing clients, we know what needs to be done and how to do it.
Pricing Details
When Legacy Books provides a wide variety of assistance, projects will typically reach $15,000 in services. We pride ourselves on the quality of our work, with a focus on attention to detail and unparalleled results.
Because we demand the very best results, our typical project at Legacy Books lasts 6-12 months.
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