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Archive for February, 2010

A Fun Way To Commence A Family Story: Get Your Little Ones Involved Without Them Knowing – Part 1


Friday, February 26th, 2010

An simple method to encourage your young ones to participate in family history is to have them write for things they want. It doesn’t even require family history software for them to do it. The easiest thing for young ones to write about is simply about what happened to them that day or that week, [...]




Family History Software: Prodding Your Child To Create Legacies Through Stories – Part 6


Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Who knew that family history software, and even family tree software, would find such a large market of folks wanting to do genealogy work? There are even a number of people who are searching for family tree software because such diagrams are a nice visual way to see all family lines at the same time. [...]




Family History Software: Prodding Your Family To Construct Legacies Through Stories – Part 4


Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I have yet to see family history software that allows you to tag stories so that you could later search for certain stories by author, topic, type of writing, etc. I would bet there are certainly no family tree software programs that do that, and I am not sure how a family tree diagram would [...]




Family History Software: Prodding Your Child To Leave Legacies Through Stories – Part 5


Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Internet searchers looking for family history software, family tree software or even family tree diagram are probably greatly desirous to uncover as many artifacts and documents of their ancestors as possible. If they were to discover letters, poems, or stories written by their great grandfather or great great grandmother, they would be more than delighted. [...]




Family History Software: Getting Your Family To Create Legacies Through Writing – Part 3


Monday, February 15th, 2010

The reason I think family history software, including family tree software, should support and promote stories is because I’m a huge believer in the power of stories. They could even be part of family tree diagram. Telling a story maybe the greatest component to include when giving a presentation or in public speaking. When it [...]




Family History Software: Incentivizing Your Child To Leave Legacies Through Stories – Part 2


Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Whenever I talk about family history software, I like to mention the fact that stories are one of the best familial and ancestral artifacts to be passed from one generation to the next. It is great when such programs can support such stories, whether it be family tree software or even in family tree diagram. [...]




Family History Software: Assisting Your Family To Build Legacies Through Stories


Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

One of the legacies most often lost between generations is the writing of one’s anscestors, whether it be love letters, which are obviously the most sentimental and touching, or things like stories, poems, or anything else that the great great grandparent may have written. I think family history software should definitely allow for the preservation [...]






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