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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What Motivates You to Share Family Stories and Histories?
While considering ways to encourage and equip you, I realized motivation precedes the first step of action. I’m interested in what motivates or discourages you from sharing family stories and histories with kin, friends, and maybe even strangers. There is…
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Gifts That Keep Giving through the Generations
In late December 2001, I felt deflated as I wrapped strands of twinkle lights to store for another year. Frustrated with the hassle, cost, and my disappointment in the gifts I’d given my family, I wondered what I might give…
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Gifts Can Beget Gifts: Resources help family history writers ultimately give the gift of their written stories and sagas
When my mom and sisters inquired about what I wanted for my birthday, I gave them a handful of reference book titles my family history writers group members had suggested. Gently used books were perfectly fine with me. I didn’t…
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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…
