The Voice is Time Sensitive. In today’s fast-paced digital world, material possessions are often glorified. From flashy cars to sprawling mansions, the age-old adage “more is better” seems to resonate across cultures and age groups. However, when we truly reflect on the essence of our existence, the true value of our legacy becomes evident. It…
14 Ways Grandparents Can Leave a Lasting Legacy for Their Grandchildren Grandparents have a valuable role in the lives of their grandchildren and can leave a lasting impact on them by passing on their legacy. While material possessions like land or money can be helpful, there are many other ways that grandparents can share their…
Leaving a Legacy: The Importance of Passing Down Your Knowledge and Experience When we think about legacy, we often think about leaving behind physical objects or accomplishments that will be remembered by future generations. However, there is another aspect of legacy that is just as important: leaving behind a piece of yourself, your voice, your…
Audible keepsakes are forever. “I’d give anything to hear my mother’s voice again.” One of the most comforting sounds I remember were my grandmother’s words of encouragement.” “If only I could hear his voice again, I wouldn’t feel so alone.” “The sound of my children playing was the sound of contentment, and now they are…
A Legacy Bucket will create a family legacy for generations to come. “I’ll put that on my bucket list!” Jack Nicholas and Morgan Freeman played in the movie, Bucket List but have nothing to do with your Legacy Bucket . A bucket list is places to go and things for you to do before you…
There are many reasons for canning fruits and vegetables. The biggest reason was many mouths to feed. We were not storing food for 10 years, we were storing food for the next few months. Scalding the glass canning jars was the chore of Uncle Jacob. He was a special Crusader for the children. He always…
The Genealogy Machine can be you… It was barely daylight and closer to dawn as there was no sun even on the horizon. The mission was treasure and everyone whispered, not that anyone could hear but maybe they would. The retired pharmacist had hired the gadget to find the family treasure that had been his…
Coralee Mae Kinney Fussell, wife, MOM, grandmother, multitalented artist, seamstress moved from Dover Foxcroft Maine to Lake Placid FL, graduating high school there and went to church with her parents Fern & Paul Kinney in Ortona, FL. Coralee’s husband to be joined the Army Transportation Corp before he was old enough with the help of…
The Great Migration didn’t just start at a GPS point and stop in Utopia Texas. Nicholas Fussell Sr. of London, England had a son, WILLIAM, that moved to Yorkshire. For some reason WILLIAM FUSSELL, of Yorkshire, England had a son, Solomon, that left the homeland and sailed to America, emigrating to Pennsylvania 1721 and started…
Oral history has survived more accurately through the eons of time than any other form of recording. Songs, chants, and stories told by the family have kept the family history alive until today. Hawaiians were able to chant 90 generations of heritage in their form of story telling. You should brainstorm with as many…
Famous grilled oysters on the half shell, half raw, the rest steamed in their own juices kept the diners coming back till the bounty was totally consumed. The gourmet cook never claimed to be a chef but bragged that his home in Naples was within 5 minutes of the finest dining anywhere in North America.…
Fannie prayed for everyone. The family record is clear. Fannie was a prayer warrior. People came from miles around to get sister Fannie to come sit and pray with the ailing dying and newborns. Fannie was busy cooking over the wood cookstove when her 5 year old ran into the kitchen and grabbed his mother’s…
Oral History as told by Hanna Gallup. Great Uncle Will showed up in Michigan with a Prince Albert can full of gold nuggets. The table was that of the family patriarch, Gaunce Gallup. Greenfield was a village of Deerborn, Michigan. Gaunce Gallup had contracted to construct several miles of Highway 2 with draft horses and…
The family history was sacred and to be told as exact as possible. Grandma Fern sat with her hands folded in her lap while she answered my question did she ever go to school? “Why yes child, why would you ask a question like that?” I was just curious and she started the story of…
Oral history records more than genealogy. Oral history has so much more to offer than a picture or a chart. Visiting with Uncle Roy was like I never knew who he was. He was always quiet. Roy started talking about driving the family truck called a skeeter from the cane patch to the cane mill…
Inheritance is not usually fluid, it can be tangible or invisible. Not long after the last grain of sand drops from the hourglass of time, inheritance leaps to the foreground as a legacy for the descendants. Inheritance is commonly defined as money or property. In actuality, inheritance is the act of knowingly giving a possession…
Your free legacy is not about an heirloom, a recipe, a quilt, a home or even money. Your free legacy cannot be held or seen but to your heirs it is priceless and cherished above all other gifts. Your legacy is the celebration of your hopes and dreams for the future, that will be passed…
The definition of what is a legacy is defined as follows. The baton of family history was passed to us involuntarily. Some call the baton our heritage, genealogy, family history, stories, land or possessions. However, our legacy is the celebration of our hopes and dreams for the future, that will be passed on to our…
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His legacy is a photograph? My grandfather died at 45 of heart failure. My father didn’t hardly knew him as he was 4 when his Dad died. My Dad didn’t know his granddad’s name. Grandfather’s family lived in a different state. Who am I? What is my legacy? Who were these ancestors? I looked back…
Reading Aloud for Child Success is the best way to assure that your child will be able to provide for themselves as adults. With one out of five students graduating from high school unable to read well enough to hold down a substantial job, we have to do something different in order for our…
Oral History is a familiar audible voice, talking or singing about a story or an event, that has personal memories of an individual, family or groups of people such as a town or nation, that can be recorded as first-hand knowledge of past events and records with the mere sound of the voice. Written…
A Voicelette™ is just like an audible tweet. A Voicelette is ten seconds long to say anything you want, it can be stored it in the cloud and listened to it for generations to come and it’s FREE. If you forgot a mother’s day card, a birthday card, an anniversary card, or celebration of…
Family history in a voice recording was the desired Legacy. Dad asked his mother to record her life story. He left a recorder and tapes so she could record as long as she wanted. He retrieved the tapes and long after she passed, he began to listen. Her voice ebbed, flowed and the volume was…
SO how do I leave a Legacy? I took inventory and reminisced. I am married, with 4 children, 9 grandchildren and a life of hard work, international travel, friends from here to far points of the earth. In two generations not even my descendants will know who I was or even know my name… I…