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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…