WELCOME TO MOMENTS!
Preserve Your Family Stories
NOW AVAILABLE!
In a world buzzing with holiday newsletters, social media updates, and daily messages, we often find ourselves wondering:
What about the truly important details and unforgettable moments that shape our family's narrative?
How can we document these treasures, ensuring they are remembered and cherished for generations to come?
That’s why Press 49 created Moments, to provide an easy way for individuals to preserve their most cherished times, their greatest memories, and their most important moments in the form of a keepsake book.
HOW DOES THIS WORK?
We make it SO easy for you in 4 simple steps!
1: Start your Moments subscription today.
2: Every Monday, you receive an email containing questions about family history and heritage.
3: Submit your thoughtful responses to as many questions as you like, and upload family pictures.
4: At the end of 5 months, the Moments team edits your submissions and creates your beautiful, hardback keepsake book that’s shipped directly to you.
INTRODUCTORY RATE!
Start by January 31 to enjoy the introductory rate of $99/month for your first 5 months!
After that, your subscription is $129/month.
WHY CHOOSE MOMENTS?
What We Offer
Moments provides families with a seamless way to preserve not just their family tree but the vibrant history, memories, and heritage woven within it. Our platform goes beyond the routine, sparking conversations that may have never taken place before. With Moments, families find the inspiration and motivation to document their history and memories, something they may have intended to do for years or even decades.
Moments keepsake books make ideal gifts for family reunions, heartwarming additions to wedding celebrations, thoughtful presents for new family members, and cherished mementos for graduations and special holidays. Each book is more than just a collection of names, dates, and places. It's a living testament to the unique stories that make your family extraordinary.
Start by January 31 to enjoy the introductory rate of $99/month for your first 5 months!
Sample Customizable Moments Cover Options
Why We Do This
The numbers speak volumes: 23andMe boasts over 14 million customers worldwide, while the AncestryDNA database connects a staggering 22 million individuals. The global genealogy products and services market is projected to soar from $5.4 billion in 2023 to a remarkable $15.8 billion by 2033.
Amid this surge, individuals are increasingly seeking meaning and fresh discoveries about their family's past and ancestral roots. While genealogy paints a tapestry of surnames, dates, and locations, it often falls short of revealing the rich tapestry of personal stories.
Enter Moments, born from the passion of our founder, Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins, who embarked on a personal genealogical journey when she was a teen. Her story began with a high school AP English class project, leading her back to the 1850s and the history of an enslaver named Samuel McGowen. The result was a final paper of which she was immensely proud, but it evolved into something with an entirely different meaning after she discovered, at the age of 31, that she was adopted. Unfortunately, by then, she had misplaced the paper. Plus, the discovery of her adoption, along with a million other turns of events, made it increasingly clear that sitting down with relatives to capture the stories of her family would likely be an impossibility.
But that did not have to be the case for others.
And that’s why she created Moments, to provide an easy way for individuals to preserve their most cherished times, their greatest memories, their most important moments.
WHAT IS THE PROCESS?
Moments is part of the award-winning Press 49 family, and we know publishing! We guarantee you will see our commitment to high standards throughout your entire Moments experience!
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Moments is a subscription service where you create a keepsake book. You receive 5 prompts each week over the course of 5 months, sent directly to your email address. You may respond to as many prompts as you like each week. Additionally, you may submit up to 10 photos per month, totaling 50 photos over the course of 5 months. Moments will apply edits to your responses to the prompts, correcting for punctuation and grammar; style your responses and photos in a beautiful layout; and create a custom cover. Once your keepsake book is finished, you receive one full-color copy that is bound as a beautiful hardback book, and you may order as many additional copies as you'd like.
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Moments helps you create a meaningful keepsake book through gentle weekly prompts and human editorial care without turning your life into a writing assignment. Most services offer one prompt and one path. However, with Moments, you get multiple prompts each week, and you can respond to what resonates. Others provide you with auto-assembled books and minimal editing, or just a way to print and bind your photos. Moments conducts mechanical editing by humans, and you get an intentional layout and design that’s like a real book, not a printout. Moments is more than a photo book. It’s a story you author.
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Absolutely! The Moments team will review and correct your writing for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics to ensure it is error-free and reads clearly. And not to worry: You will have the opportunity to review your book before the final book is printed.
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The introductory rate is $99 per month through the month of January. After that, the rate is $129 per month.
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Here's a small sampling of the types of question you will receive:
1. Generational Wisdom: Reflect on a piece of wisdom or advice passed down through generations in your family. How has this nugget of wisdom shaped your values and decisions?
2. Family Traditions Through Time: Explore a specific family tradition that has been carried through multiple generations. How has it evolved, and what significance does it hold for your family?
3. Family Mementos: Choose a family heirloom or memento with a rich history. What stories and memories are associated with this object, and how does it connect you to your family's past?
4. Family Recipes: Share a cherished family recipe and the memories attached to it. How has the preparation and sharing of this dish been a part of family gatherings and celebrations?
5. Childhood Snapshot: Describe a specific moment from your childhood that remains vivid in your memory. What sights, sounds, and feelings stand out the most?
6. Secret Hideaway: Take a trip down memory lane to a secret hiding spot from your childhood. What made it special, and what adventures unfolded there?
7. Influential Figures: Reflect on the people who played a significant role in your early years. How did they shape your character, and what lasting impact have they had on your life?
8. Playtime Adventures: Recount a favorite childhood game or activity. What made it so enjoyable, and do you still carry elements of it into your adult life?
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We are starting with family history and heritage for now. We will soon have options for creating Moments books focused on childhood and coming of age as well as professional and career.
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Absolutely! You may opt to fast-track your submissions. You will receive access to all the questions at once and have up to 12 months to make your submissions for a one-time fee of $1,199.
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You may stop your subscription at any time. To request that Moments produce your keepsake book using your submissions made to date, we require that you submit at least 3 months of content and complete at least 3 months of payments.
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We understand life happens. You have a maximum of 12 months from the start of your subscription to make your submissions.
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Yes, you may pause your subscription at any time for any reason for up to 3 months.
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Protecting your data and private information is a high priority for us. When you enter your responses to questions and submit your photos, they are submitted via a form that is encrypted and secures all sensitive data.
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Your subscription includes one full-color copy of your finished book, bound as a beautiful hardback. You have the option to purchase additional copies of your book. The per-copy prices are as follows:
- B&W, up to 100 pages: $59
- Full color, up to 100 pages: $69
- B&W, 101 to 200 pages: $79
- Full color, 101 to 200 pages: $89
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There are no refunds.
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The finished book is a beautiful 8.5” x 8.5” hardbound book. As part of your subscription, you will receive a full-color copy of your finished book.
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Not to worry. Reminders are sent each week to encourage you to submit your responses. There are no deadlines, and you have up to 12 months from the start of your subscription to submit everything.
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This is a keepsake book designed for you, your family, and your loved ones. The Moments service does not include distribution on online retailers' sites. However, if this is something of interest to you, please let us know, and we can discuss what that level of service entails.
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No problem! Email us at info@press49.com, and we'll get you the information you need.
START TODAY!
START TODAY!
INTRODUCTORY RATE!
Start by January 31 to enjoy the introductory rate of $99/month for your first 5 months!
After that, your subscription is $129/month.