My Aunt Martha Laakso had no children of her own so she treated her nephews and nieces as if they were her kids. And we loved her back. Shortly before she died she asked her niece, Mary Jane Moffat, an author who taught others how to write their memoirs, to write Martha’s eulogy, to be read at her memorial service. In 2001 I recorded a 60 minute audio interview with Martha in which she talked about her family’s emigration from Finland and the challenges she faced growing up with a denigrating housekeeper who was hired to care for 13 children after Martha’s mother died. Martha’s story is a video eulogy or mini-videography that the Story Lab West crew created by recording Mary Jane’s written eulogy as the narrative thread, illustrated with photographs and home movies from the family collection and the Internet and enhanced with music from Finlandia and other classical pieces; and by inserting multiple clips from Martha’s audio interview at timely moments in the narrative. It was shown at a memorial service for Martha and was widely praised by family and attendees. A relative from Finland who I had never met but who received one of the Martha’s Story DVDs wrote to me in gratitude and praise of the video and its depiction of our shared Finnish heritage.