About Us

Jeff Jahn’s interest in home movies, music, and biographies developed into a passion for “Telling the Stories of the Not So Rich and Not So Famous” in the late 1980’s. Beginning as a hobby with “two VCR’s and a boom box”, Jeff produced graduation videos for his two daughters, Stephanie and Holly.
 

Other “in-home” projects about his interests in Vinyl Records, Lighthouses, and family friends fueled his desire to use his creative and technical skills to help people enjoy and preserve their memories. In 2003, Jeff

began Keepsake Family Tree Video, enabling him to provide professional quality video production benefiting people from all walks of life. He has used his previous work experiences as a Lutheran Minister (5 years), and working in graphic design and sales for the family printing business (22 years) to enable people to celebrate life and those they love and to find comfort during life’s difficult times.

 

Jeff recently moved to Farmington Hills where he lives near his two now grown daughters. He enjoys camping, getting together with close friends and family, playing guitar, and singing. He is involved as a leader of worship and in the music programs at Hope Lutheran Church in Farmington Hills MI.
 

Michelle's interest in creating family heritage documentaries started in 1994 after discovering hundreds of old and fading photographs in her grandmother’s basement. She wanted to preserve the photographs for future generations and make a keepsake movie for every family member. She created it "the old fashioned way" with a camcorder, a stopwatch, 45 RPM records and lots of patience. After working 6 months to complete it, on Christmas Eve the entire family gathered after dinner at her Grandmothers house to watch her first 2 hour production. Upon seeing the family laughing and reminiscing to the wonderful memories, she knew wanted to make more!

 

Michelle's passion for music and film led her to enroll at Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts, learning how to work with film, editing, sound boards and commercial work. She spent the next few years working as a DJ and board operator at a local radio station. Soon after, her love of photography and restoring vintage photos, which began as a spare time hobby, started taking off as a business! This happened when a family who wanted all their photographs, spanning over 100 years, to be restored hired her to make a music montage on DVD. They were so delighted with Michelle’s work that they ordered 16 copies!