Every life has a story, and recording your family history is about capturing and preserving these unique stories. But where do you begin? Here are tips to help you get started with recording your family legacy.
Gather Up Photos And Documents
There’s a good chance that, somewhere in random boxes scattered throughout your basement, attic, or closets, valuable treasure is hiding — treasure that takes the form of old photographs and yellowed, faded documents. Your first job is to gather these items and dust them off. Set aside a space where you can store these gems for safekeeping, as well as to prevent them from being misplaced again..
Research The Missing Pieces
Your old photos and family records tell part of the story. To generate a more complete picture of your family ancestry, you’ll need to do a little detective work. Start with living relatives; what do they know? Kick things off with informal conversations, and as stories and details emerge, you may want to schedule longer interviews, possibly even recording them for posterity.
Next, extend your genealogy research online. Trace your family history with the help of ancestry websites like ancestry.com and familysearch.org.
Your local library may be a great resource for learning more. Armed with family names and whatever dates and anecdotes you’ve rounded up, head to your public or university library and ask for help.
Expand Your Search
Share Your Enthusiasm
Your research will undoubtedly take you to people and places you may not have known much about before starting your family tree project. You’ll make many new connections, perhaps even with relatives in other parts of the world.
Before long, you’ll want to find a way to share your enthusiasm for reconstructing your family heritage with others. You’ll also want to find an efficient way to manage and share all the photographs and memories you unearth. At Living Family History, we’ve created an efficient way for you to store and share your unique family heritage. We’re all about simplifying how you preserve your memories and family stories and distributing this wealth of information with the people you want to stay connected to.
We are part online photo storage site and part private social network, but most of all, we are memory keepers. Living Family History is here to make it easier for you to preserve your family history and have a way to easily access and share the photos, documents, videos, and stories that define your family legacy. If you have any questions about who we are and what we can do for you, reach out to us, and we’ll be happy to help you get started on preserving memories and passing them on to the next generations.
Living Family History offers several packages to meet your needs. We recommend that you start with our monthly package to familiarize yourself with our system. The monthly option provides extensive security, private digital space, private social media, and a means to have private communication with family and friends whom you can invite to join your network. For your convenience, we also offer interviewing tools and 5GB of media storage, plus the means to easily upload video, audio, and text files. We also offer yearly and lifetime packages. Get started with us today!
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“we are memory keepers”,,, i like that… it so true, you have to just start.. get to it as it were.