Discover, Preserve,
and Share Your Family
Stories and History
Join us in celebrating family narratives and heritage.
What is Family Story Tree?
“This website encourages you to find, listen to, read, and write your family stories and histories. Learn different methods to keep them alive and pass them on. Stories connect generations. Your contributions and efforts now can have a positive impact on current and future generations.”
Linda Jewell, Founder
Discover the past, cherish the present,
shape the future.
Start your journey of discovering your family history with us!
Blogs are written and posted below regularly. We encourage our community to comment with their ideas that have worked (and NOT worked!) as they discover, preserve, and share their precious and unique family stories and history.
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Focus on Finding Earlier Transaction Dates Connected to Ancestors’ Federal Land Patents
in the Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Tract Books Do you know whether your ancestors received a title, most commonly called a final certificate or patent, on federal land as the US expanded westward? (A final certificate or…
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Some Basics of Winning Writers Group
If you’re interested in your family’s stories and histories, I encourage you to write and share them, for they matter to current and future generations. If you haven’t already, I suggest you search for a writers group that promotes win-wins…
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Benefits of Writers Groups
Just as it takes a village to raise a child, a community of writers helps us nurture our manuscript babies and send our stories into the world of readers. If you’re hesitant to take part in a writers group, consider…
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Family Recipes—Savoring and Baking Memories
In the late 1970s, my sisters and I undertook a family cookbook. The project started small—we planned to gather some of our recipes and those from our mother and grandmother. But then, how could we not include recipes from our…
