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How Knowing Family Stories Helps Overcome Challenges

October 17, 2024 by Legacy Tree Genealogists Leave a Comment

Family Stories Build Confidence

Embracing Your Family Stories The genealogy journey is one fraught with unexpected discoveries and stories. As you delve deeper into family history and past stories, there can often be positive and negative surprises that shift your perspective of yourself and the world around you. As you learn about the past, you can choose to create a future that your descendants can be proud of and, in so many ways, come to understand yourself better and grow as an individual.  Growing From Your Ancestor's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ancestors, family history, Family History Activities, genealogy, stories

Ancestors and Their Pets: All Creatures Great and Small

March 1, 2021 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 6 Comments

The Legacy Tree team loves animals, and recently some of them shared stories of ancestors who had pets, or worked with animals, and even had close encounters with dangerous beasts! A cousin’s pet calf Many of our ancestors lived on farms, or in rural areas, and grew up around livestock. This photograph from Washington state in the 1930s clearly demonstrates a family member’s attachment to one of the calves. Unfortunately, this friendship had to end when times became tough (or perhaps simply … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing a Family History Tagged With: ancestors, ancestral, ancestry, animals, biography, family history, genealogy, narrative, pets, stories

Using History to Tell Your Family Story

July 10, 2015 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 3 Comments

Everybody loves a good story. Here is one experience where genealogy was brought to life by developing and understanding local history and culture of the time.    Everybody in my family - at least on my dad’s side - is a storyteller. Every event in their lives was and is a story. You never simply got up and went to school. Every day was a potential epic adventure. To hear my dad tell it, his life as a boy on the farm was one narrow escape after another, followed by record-breaking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing a Family History Tagged With: family history, genealogy, historian, Historical Context, stories, writing a family history

11 Do’s & Don’ts of Writing Family Biographies

June 19, 2015 by Elly - Legacy Tree Genealogists Project Manager 15 Comments

 Our team has completed thousands of hours of writing client biographies. Review our tips for writing family biographies that will help make your ancestors come to life! Recently, we published a post on tips for writing a family biography that others would want to read. Perhaps that article inspired you to begin your own, or to dig up an unfinished manuscript and take a closer look. Maybe you’ve got the organization part figured out, but your writing itself needs some polishing. At Legacy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing a Family History Tagged With: biographies, biography, family, genealogist, help, historian, history, stories, story, tips, tricks, write, writing

Using Historical Context to Learn About An Ancestor

September 1, 2014 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 3 Comments

Understanding the historical context of the stories of your ancestry can provide important insight into your personal family history. I recently had a project come across my desk where the client wanted to learn more about his father’s life during a 5-year time span that he was in the United States. Unfortunately he arrived and departed between census records, so there was no way to locate him in the U.S. that way. However, by locating him on a passenger list we were able to learn the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Methodology Tagged With: ancestors, ancestry, context, culture, historical, history, methodology, newspaper, steel mill, stories, story, time period

Writing Family Histories

November 1, 2013 by Legacy Tree Genealogists Leave a Comment

Writing family histories is an exciting and fulfilling role! Here are our 5 tips for getting started, and making the most of this meaningful experience.  Perhaps you’ve spent years gathering materials and information about your ancestors. You might have boxes of old photos, file folders of records, and a computer database bursting with names. Or maybe you are just getting interested in genealogy and would like to get to know your ancestors better. Writing a family history is a wonderful way to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing a Family History Tagged With: advice, biography, family history, help, historical, narrative, professional, stories, story, story telling, tips, write, writing

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