Wouldn't you love to read the diaries and letters of your great-great-grandparents? Their day-to-day stories of life, love, hardship and accomplishments might give you a real sense of who they were and from where you came.
The same is true for your descendants and the descendants of everyone you mention in your own stories. They would love to hear of life in the 20th and 21st centuries - the dawn of super highways and family road trips, the war years and their aftermath, home milk deliveries, space travel, Super 8 films, camping trips and cottage life, immigration and settling in to a new country and so much more.
Storytelling is something we all do: men and women, elders and their grandchildren, those native born and immigrated. We grow up listening to stories and learning from them. Those we find particularly funny or helpful will help shape our lives and we will retell in our own ways.
Our belief in the truth of our stories reflects who we are and what we believe in. May we repeat the successes of our ancestors. May we also avoid their failures as we provide a role model to our own descendants of how to live in the next 150 years!
The book is divided into: Part 1: Your outline by the end of the day; Part 2: The who, what, where, when, why and how; Part 3: More depth and color to your story; Part 4: Helping others record their stories; Part 5: Appendices on: ways to generate further ideas, data collection, genealogy/family tree, and historical timelines.
The same is true for your descendants and the descendants of everyone you mention in your own stories. They would love to hear of life in the 20th and 21st centuries - the dawn of super highways and family road trips, the war years and their aftermath, home milk deliveries, space travel, Super 8 films, camping trips and cottage life, immigration and settling in to a new country and so much more.
Storytelling is something we all do: men and women, elders and their grandchildren, those native born and immigrated. We grow up listening to stories and learning from them. Those we find particularly funny or helpful will help shape our lives and we will retell in our own ways.
Our belief in the truth of our stories reflects who we are and what we believe in. May we repeat the successes of our ancestors. May we also avoid their failures as we provide a role model to our own descendants of how to live in the next 150 years!
The book is divided into: Part 1: Your outline by the end of the day; Part 2: The who, what, where, when, why and how; Part 3: More depth and color to your story; Part 4: Helping others record their stories; Part 5: Appendices on: ways to generate further ideas, data collection, genealogy/family tree, and historical timelines.