My Journaling: The number one thing that I hope my family and friends will remember about me is that I always used my talents to serve others. I hope that I can leave a legacy to my children of the importance of service. Journal prompts, Journal CardZ, and other ideas to help you tell YOUR story and discover your family history! Tuesdays ... [Read More]
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Family Tree TuesdayZ | Times of Struggle
My Journaling: I'm going to be very vulnerable today and share a particular hard time in my life, a definite time of struggle. I've talked about this with others, but I don't believe that I have ever written it down, so maybe its time. This memory is definitely a time when I didn't know if I would make it through, but I did and I'm still here and I'm so grateful that I am. The teen years are tough for everyone. It's a time where you are trying to figure out who you are and what you want out of life. Unfortunately, when you mix that with everyone else's emotions and feelings, it becomes a mess. When I was in seventh and eighth grades, I experienced an extreme amount of bullying and torment from my classmates. It was everyday and as I didn't grow up with great communication in my ... [Read More]
Family Tree TuesdayZ | BYU Family History Technology Apps
My daughter has been getting into family history lately and that excites me because that is about the age that I began being interested too. She's started a project of collecting family stories and I think its going to be great fun to collaborate together and discover more about our genealogy! In this newly-found quest, my daughter found out about a local Family History Fair a few weeks ago and so we went and had a great time learning through some classes. One of the classes that I attended talked about some great family history apps from BYU, that make family history come alive for families! I'm so excited to share these with you today and I hope you will try them out with your families! The Family History Technology Lab, sponsored by the Department of Computer Science at Brigham Young ... [Read More]
Family History TuesdayZ | Family Tree
Journal prompt: What do you know about your family tree? Each Tuesday, I am going to be offering prompts or ideas. If you don't write in your journal regularly - I am going to encourage you to write just ONCE A WEEK and answer the question/idea that I give on Tuesdays. These ideas hopefully will spark a memory and you will be able to capture that in what you write/record so that it can be left for your children/grandchildren/family/friends. Give as much detail as you can when answering. Will you do this for me? Will you do this for your families? You can write it down in a journal, you can type it up on a computer or journaling software, you can take a recorder and talk, you can videotape your answers, you can even scrap a page with the journaling. It doesn't matter how you do ... [Read More]
