This is a great idea for making a record of your heirlooms!
Do you have a family story to tell? One that depicts a transformative era in an ancestor’s life or maybe a simple story of connection? You may be at a loss, not knowing where to begin. In Ann…
A family history priority is gathering stories & records from family members while we still can. This Thanksgiving my mother-in-law started talking about her ancestors from Norway. She's the…
Creating a video life story of your loved one is easier than you think with this simple process and questionnaire.
Stories are powerful. It’s why they are a part of every culture. There are legends and myths, fairy tales and fables, and then there are the most powerful stories of all – the stories that bind us …
30 questions to ask your aging family members today to learn more about them, your family history and maybe more about yourself!
A story to be told
Senior family members are often the best genealogy resource. Here are family history interview questions to ask to discover more about generations past.
Writing your family history doesn’t have to be hard. 5 super-easy prompts, each of which makes a great place to start writing about your family story.
Remember, your own history will eventually become family history! Record these 16 things about yourself to preserve your life story for future genealogists.
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GENEALOGY The Family Story Teller: We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family st…
Here are a few reasons for you to keep researching your family ancestors and building your family tree.
As personal historians, Tom and I mostly focus on helping people tell the stories of their own lives. But what if your chosen project is to tell not your own story, but that of an ancestor? Ancestral stories present a different kind of challenge than writing our personal stories—in personal historie
Today I’d like to introduce you to my second cousin, Teresa L. Thyden. Although our grandfathers were brothers, we had never met, corresponded, or even known about each other’s existenc…
This family history book began with a (let's admit it, rather boring) "narrative report" automatically generated by a genealogy program. We added some additional stories, photos, and custom design to bring it to life for the family.
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Here are a few reasons for you to keep researching your family ancestors and building your family tree.
What can family historians glean from advice from great storytellers? Read a few tips that can help those of us writing family stories.
A review of the King Makers Daughter the story of Queen Anne Neville by Philippa Gregory. The review is complete with character analysis, synopsis and historical background.
Senior family members are often the best genealogy resource. Here are family history interview questions to ask to discover more about generations past.
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Preserve and document your family history in this ancestry book. Share your family genealogy, historic records, family photos, and stories. Makes a great one-of-a-kind gift for holidays, weddings, and family reunions. Capture and share your family traditions with your siblings, children, grandchildren, and friends! Duplicate pages to build a book of any length. Invite your family to send you their memories, photos, and stories. FEATURES • Adobe InDesign • 38 professionally designed pages that can be used again and again to build your book • Fully customizable pages • Editable colors, fonts, and layouts • 8.5" x 11" US Letter and A4 included • Note: Sample images are not included; text is placeholder text called Lorem Ipsum. You will need to add your own photos and text to create your book. This listing requires Adobe InDesign. It will not work with any other software. I have a similar listing available for other platforms: Canva: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1124820401/ Apple Pages: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1298219194/ ★ NO PHYSICAL ITEMS WILL BE SHIPPED ★ With digital downloads, no physical items will be shipped. Due to differences in monitor and printer calibrations, colors may appear different in print than on screen. Refunds are not available on any digital downloads from my shop.
Don’t know how to start telling your ancestors stories? Use these 260 family history questions to get started and unlock your stories.
Make time to start gathering and writing you own life stories - your legacy. Use these 7 prompts for ideas. You are not too young to capture your memories on paper.
Obituaries are genealogy gold dust. You can learn key details about their life. Here’s how to find obituaries and how to use the clues in them.
On a Genealogy and Family History to-do list, recording family stories is among the most urgent of tasks. It's vital to protect perishable items and memories usually top that list.…
We are currently working on a couple of genealogy books at the moment. The challenge with these books is always to find what's compelling in the sometimes dry "names and dates" nature of the research data and build on it, adding historical background information and photo
Don’t know how to start telling your ancestors stories? Use these 260 family history questions to get started and unlock your stories.
Writing your family history? 3 easy-to-action to start doing today so it feels like your ancestors' stories are writing themselves.
Inspiring quotes about family, family history, genealogy and family trees from the photo organizing experts at Good Life Photo Solutions
Flesh out the 8 milestone goals that will be your guide to completing your family history book.
The creation of personal histories preserves our lives, making the specifics of our life available to our descendants forever. Access 300 questions to get started.
I stumbled upon this graphic of GotGenealogy.com‘s “Golden Rules of Genealogy.” Great compilation of common-sense genealogy truths.
That's me in front of my grandparents' former house in Liberec, Czech Republic, August 2002 I'm happy to share that I'm featured on this week's edition of the Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast. It was a
