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…
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…
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…
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…
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…