Key Links & Tools:
- VIDEO: Meet My Grandma
- VIDEO: "Family History: What I found" - This is 'the gun' story
- CONFERENCE TALK: "O Remember, Remember" by President Eyring, October 2007 Conference
- ARTICLE: "The'Low-Hanging Fruit' Method of Autobiographical Writing"
- ARTICLE: "How to ChooseWhat Stories to Tell"
- TOOL: Converting a Facebook Timeline into a printed book...in one click - https://mysocialbook.com/
- Online Book Making - www.shutterfly.com; www.picturesandstories.com
- ARTICLE: "Discover Yourself: Keep aJournal"
- ARTICLE REVIEW: "Top OCR Software of 2015"
Brian's Teaching Notes:
Mankind has told
stories since the beginning. They are used to
Teach
- tortoise and the hare
Entertain
- Shakespeare
Really good stories
do both…and make us feel.
The problem with
Family History stories is that we:
- Try to tell everything we know, and
- Think we have to work only from "cold, hard facts"
Let me give an
example. In the story of the tortoise and the hare we don't know the names of
the tortoise's parents or even where he grew up…because it's not relevant to the story.
In Romeo &
Juliet we don't know what year Romeo was born or the names and birthdays of all
of Juliet's sisters…because it's not
relevant to the story.
Don't confuse
Genealogy with Family History. They have different purposes.
DISCUSS:
What, then, should be the purpose of Family History stories?
Consider
- What are the relevant bits of the story
- What gives the underlying story meaning
Repeat
And I would like to
add a third item for Family History
- What makes the story personal / inspirational / spiritual
Sherry Russon's talk
"I was taught from their examples that I can be happy in my trials"
Separate Family
History from "the dash". The dash stands alone.
GATHER
|
ORGANIZE/ARCHIVE
|
SHARE
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CAPTURE
|
-Event related
focus
-Person
" "
-Location
" "
-Media " "
*Wedding (Addie's
video
(Wedding pictures of ancestors
|
-Albums
-Digitize (all
videos
(scan pics
(online and CD,
(resolution, format
-Costco Thumbnails
-SmugMug
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-Cloud
-CD / DVD
Key Li/ Thumb
Drive
(Christmas CD
-Printed Copy
(Archive
(book and .PDF audible
-TBT (Throw-back
Thursday
-Calendar
|
-Newsletter
-Video
-Picture Contest
-Annual Report
-Email
(Virginia
-Journals
-Interview
-FHE
|
VIDEO
|
PICTURES
|
STORIES
|
RECIPIES
|
EVENTS
|
TRADITIONS
|
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
(Worksheets for
Acord
Games / Quiz
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DOCUMENTS
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TALENTS
|
FAVORITES
-Books
-Stories
-Music
|
AUDIO
-Interviews
|
TESTIMONIES (xfer
church talks, lessons, missionary letters
|
I gathered a lot of
.PDFs and .DOCs but what do you do with them? IDK
Record - Mom & Grandma Ella
I have only one
recording that has a voice from one of my four grandparents.
When I was in
Virginia I was doing some family history. I sent letters to my grandma during
my mission and asked her to write some stuff down. I think I gave her a tape
recorder during one of my visits home.
PLAY RECORDING OF
ELLA -
<<Grandma Ella History.mp3>>
PROJECT: - I'm going to use that audio and
create a movie with pictures, maps, etc. to let my Grandma tell the story while
I back it up with interesting visuals.
Organize Family Movies
Transfer to DVD
Create Clips, Tag & Upload to family media
site
Now that I have all
those assets, now what?
Saturday I ran
across this clip that I had seen before but never really considered and it
prompted a completely new project for me.
PLAY VIDEO OF
"THIS IS MY GRANDMA"
ASK Your thoughts on the impact of that video?
ASK - What was the name of the grandma? When /
where was she born?
…because it's
not relevant to the story.
ASK Any ideas what my project might be?
- imagine a simple tool that would allow you
to introduce your grandparents to their great-great-grandchildren.
One of the ways
Family History has changed my life is its ability to not only learn about my
ancestors but to seriously consider what message / memories I want to leave to
my posterity.
- A Tale of Two Legacies
- One of my ancestors likes to say
"It takes a big dog to weigh a ton" (I don't think
- Funeral story / Warm doughnuts @ MTC
JACOB 4:4
- Precede by telling my story of how the Book
of Mormon changed my life (Jacob 1:12)
Take your favorite
scripture / story & match it with a favorite picture of a favorite person.
Pull Family History
into every gospel topic / lesson / personal progress / journal entry
- add a Family History element -- "When
I think of Faith, I think of my
third great grandmother Frost and how she…
- record your thoughts and share them in a
meaningful way
Pinterest Idea below
Technology -
Facebook Timeline - https://mysocialbook.com/
I simply ask, why do you think we have that
kind of technology in our time?
OTHER IDEAS
Pinterest-type
squares with pictures of ancestry along
with quote, or favorite scripture - Pinterest - Laugh with
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