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and Share Your Family
Stories and History
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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.
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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.
A Universal Regret
How often have we regretted not asking more questions of family members before it’s too late? Before they passed away? Or before they could no longer remember details of their lives—or of their loved ones? For decades, my grandparents willingly…
Great-grands
Have you ever felt baffled about how to best show multi-generational relationships when writing about your grandparents’ direct ancestors? Members of the family history writers group I attend opened my eyes to different styles they use to describe generations of…
Don’t Believe…
I believe we family story collectors and historians need to double check what we believe. This can include what we believe about what we see, what we hear, and what we think. Don’t Believe Everything You See My first leap…
Helping Our Reader Sort Same and Similar Names
Researching family members with same and similar names is a challenge. So is identifying and setting aside records and identities of individuals NOT related to us, but whose names are confused with our kinfolk. It can be tricky writing about…