Manage Your Life Story and Pictures
Posted Oct 29, 2007
Many free tools exist to help families organize and share pictures online. Some tools organize family pictures through a family tree, others provide a place to store and share pictures in folders, and some resources let you organize pictures by location. Organize Histories and Pictures on a Time Line One available option at OurStory.com lets [...]
Map your Family History – Literally
Posted Oct 27, 2007
Did your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, or Africa? Have they always lived in New Zealand, the United States, or South America? Many families have roots that span various different countries. Wouldn’t it be neat to have a map that showed where your different family lines came from and how they converge to be where [...]
Family Heirloom and Keepsake Tracker
Posted Oct 24, 2007
Heirloom sounds like such a formal word, but many of us have and pass on a variety of heirlooms and family keepsakes in our individual families. We may not think of our items as “heirlooms” but there are plenty of keepsakes and knick-knacks that are important to us. They’re the things that you just don’t [...]
Free Personal History Starter Kit – Download
Posted Oct 24, 2007
As mentioned in a previous article, it’s much easier to write a rich personal history if you write by topic. We suggest creating a separate document for each topic. You’ll then be making great progress on your entire personal history one bite at a time. To make things easier for you, we’ve created twenty [...]
Organizing your Digital Pictures
Posted Oct 15, 2007
Digital cameras are such a fantastic way to preserve memories. You can take almost as many pictures as you want to, right there on the spot, and have an instant preview of what your picture looks like. You can print your pictures if you like, but you don’t have to worry about your pictures fading [...]
30 Days to Keeping a Consistent and Meaningful Journal
Posted Oct 13, 2007
Some people are avid journal keepers while others have a very difficult time starting a diary. If you’re one of those that have trouble keeping a consistent journal, you’ve come to the right place. If you follow the instructions below, you’ll be on your way to creating a journal that will benefit you and your [...]
Writing your Personal History
Posted Sep 28, 2007
The Hard Part For some of us, sitting down and finishing a comprehensive personal history can be quite difficult. Notice that I said finish and not begin because it seems like we’re all very good at beginning things, but it’s the finishing that makes the difference. Well, here’s a way to write that personal history [...]
