Sharing family information can be a wonderful learning experience, an opportunity to record family history and a chance to enhance understanding and relationships among family members. One’s life story can be a gift to future generations — and it can be lifesaving. Our Teasured Memories shares tips on how to preserve family history and memories through capturing and sharing life stories. This informative and emotional program teaches its audience how to best capture a life story.

Host Debby Bitticks helps the PBS audience understand the incredible treasures they can uncover by understanding more about their parents, children, grandparents, aunts and uncles. Bitticks encourages viewers to ask questions of their relatives, questions such as: what was their life like before they married; how did they choose their career; what has brought them the most joy in their lives; what helped them get through the most challenging events in their lives; and what do they hope to accomplish? Bitticks also discusses clarifying and resolving long-standing issues between family members.

Because America has evolved into a mobile society and extended families no longer live in the same neighborhoods, towns or states, our understanding of the lives and needs of those who should be closest to us weakens through the years. Our Teasured Memories presents a method to slow the increasing fragmentation of families.

Through her personal stories, Bitticks reveals that capturing the stories of our loved ones can transform our relationships with family while giving an amazing gift to future generations. Our Teasured Memories investigates one of the most critical issues of the beginning of the 21st century in America — our rapidly aging population — and gives real solutions for capturing and sharing the life stories of our loved ones and ourselves.