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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Accountability Partners
Are you having trouble staying focused writing your family stories and histories? If so, consider the value of an accountability partnership to encourage each other to make incremental progress toward larger goals you’ve each set and shared. It includes regular…
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Oh, the Places Your Family Stories Will Go!
Do you hesitate to write your family’s stories and history? Or finish? Or share them? If so, keep two valuable resources handy to adjust your perspective. The first resource is “On Children” from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.[1] The second…
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Counting Our Blessings
Counting our blessings can help us realize we’re not alone when we’re researching and writing our family’s stories and histories. Recently, I paused and jotted down some of these blessings I’ve received over the decades. For instance, kinfolk have provided…
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Start Small
If you’re considering writing and sharing a family story, I suggest you start small—that is, write a little about what you already know. Often a small project is easier to begin—and to complete—than a large one that involves a lot…
