Comments on: This I Believe – The Urgent Need to Record Living History http://peterfh.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/this-i-believe-the-urgent-need-to-record-living-history/ for FH Consultants and anyone else interested in Family History in the northern part of the N Amer Central Area Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pdarby http://peterfh.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/this-i-believe-the-urgent-need-to-record-living-history/#comment-95 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:18:57 +0000 http://peterfh.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-95 Bill, thank you for your thoughtful comment and helpful web link. This may be very helpful to lots of people – me included!

]]> By: Bill Buchanan http://peterfh.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/this-i-believe-the-urgent-need-to-record-living-history/#comment-92 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:23:38 +0000 http://peterfh.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-92 An article I read suggested “Instead of starting out chronologically stating your life events (year by year that is), try compiling stories by topic.” It then goes on to make numerous suggestions of topics to write on. http://www.familyhistoryquickstart.com/writing-your-personal-history/

Suddenly a light went on! My attempts to keep a journal or personal history have always failed. I think a year and a half is the maximum I have ever maintained any sort of journal. It tends to degenerate into a boring sameness. Much of my life is very routine and I am (by and large) very comfortable with that. People whose lives are full of danger and excitement tend to come to a short if dramatic end. I have things I still want to accomplish before departing this life. Incurring danger deliberately just so that I can tell everyone that I live dangerously seems rather pointless to me. I get more satisfaction from being in a situation where I can help people in various ways.

Writing my personal history by topic seems more interesting because after a page or two, my reader is introduced to a different aspect of my life’s experience. And as I remember experiences, I can easily add them. In fact, I will add two more today.

]]> By: Ben Hildebrandt http://peterfh.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/this-i-believe-the-urgent-need-to-record-living-history/#comment-91 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:24:17 +0000 http://peterfh.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-91 When us of the up and coming generation think of genealogy we think of researching our ancestors. I think very few of us think of preserving our personal histories and names and dates that are important to us. We have invaluable resources found in the many technologies of our day to help us in recording our histories. It is better to get going on our personal histories. How many of us make notes about photo’s as to who is in them. I recently visited my Grandparents and they showed me some pictures from just the past couple years and they couldn’t remember some of the people that were in them. I think of the many pictures from my high school years almost a decade ago. I wonder how many names I can remember of the people in those pictures. I think that personal histories are better started now than later.

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