Family Records

I decided a long time ago this blogs purpose was to record our family story. I really like having the blog as a way to keep a journal about what we do, but I have become rather slack on recording what I actually think and feel.

I went to a RS meeting last night about family history and different ways to approach it. I like this way a lot because it doesn't take a lot of creativity on my part. I add pictures, the info that goes along with them, and I'm done. I have printed one blog book from this blog and last night I felt encouraged to finish printing the books from the last 4 years. I love the idea of having our family info sitting in our home for my kids to flip through. We want to get a copy for each of our kids as well. How wonderful that would be! They would have the sweet details of their childhood at their fingertips. It's more than just pictures....it's really a story.

The women in our ward have such great ideas about how to document everything and how to do it with little cost. One sister shared about how she took her Grandmothers journals and typed them all. She went further than that, however, and researched every single thing she wasn't familiar with and link the words to a picture or description of it so the reader would know what her Grandma was talking about. She put the interactive document on a CD for her family- a document with over 700 pages! You would have to be a lover of the written word to get through all of that. WOW! She amazed me!

I can't ever imagine that I will do something so grand, but I can do the small task of keeping track of myself, my husband, and my kids. If it's all I can do, then it's what all do. Maybe later on in life I will do more, but not now. It exhausts me to even think of it. The point is, as long as we are doing something, it will be worth a lot later on. I wish blogs had existed years ago. I would have kept a better record of my teenage life (even if all it talked about was dramatically STUPID events).

So, there you go. My thoughts on family records.