Family History Tips and Tricks

I ran into a great idea from the blogger at Genealogy and History News. That blogger suggested the idea way back in May 2012---let the challenge begin. The challenge was to use every letter in the alphabet some how every week about family history. Resources Image:   http://tinyurl.com/7h7ov5b

"Your story should be written now while it is fresh and while the true details are available. Your private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant. Your journal, like most others, will tell of problems as old as the world and how you dealt with them." "Begin today...and write... your goings and your comings, your deeper thoughts, your achievements, and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies." "People often use the excuse that their lives are uneventful and nobody would be interested in what they have done. But I promise you that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your childre...

I was in 2nd grade when I grew a little wiser and my world turned upside down.  This year would be a tough one because this is the year when we became homeless. Different people from church or the community when they heard about our plight took us into their homes---sometimes it was for one night, a couple of days, weeks…etc. Eventually one of my mother’s friends who lived way out in the country allowed us to stay with them until we could be self-sufficient. My mom’s friend had a lot of kids and they barely could afford food and basic necessary items for their own children and yet they took us in, 2 more mouths to feed, how grateful we were. The house was always a bevy of activity with kids running in, out, around all of the time, so when my mother had to have a private conversation with me she would bring to the bathroom where we had privacy and sat me on the toilet covered seat. This particular time she called me into her private office, will forever be seared into my m...

How To Write A Eulogy---some times you become part of the family history in the making Sunday January 20, 2013 at 10:51pm my Gramma Witt, (Bessie Marie Kersten Witt) passed away.  My mom asked me to write gram's eulogy. I remember Stephen R. Covey in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People saying that each person should sit down and close their eyes and image their funeral and who would be there and than write  their own eulogy---boy do I wish gram had done this and had given it to me, than this task would be a great easier. I've been thinking for a long time about how to write grams eulogy, not quite knowing what to do or say. So in 2012 I created a blog full of memories that I had of her--to celebrate her life. This is the blog  Gramma Witt Blog . Still  not quite sure what to write, I turned to  old Aunt Netty (what my husband calls the internet) to ask her what she knew about eulogies I found a great website ...