Family History

Temple and Family Message   

_{By Cheryl Curtis}

What do you know about your parents, grandparents or great-grandparents? How about your aunts and uncles? If they are still living, take the opportunity to ask them questions or listen to stories about their early life and write them down. If they are no longer living, you can learn about them by reading their stories or life histories, looking at pictures, investigating documents or perhaps even listening to audio recordings of them. Perhaps as you do, you will not only learn something about them, you might also learn about yourself.

Our ward  temple and family history plan encourages us to add 2 memories a month to Family Search. By doing that we will get to know and connect to our family members we never had the opportunity to meet. It will also help others get to know them. Maybe you have a family picture that no one else in the family has seen, this is a good way for others in your family to enjoy that picture too. It’s the same with documents such as birth, death or wedding certificates, things like professional licenses or awards they may have won.

Memories afford us the opportunity to become acquainted with and learn about our ancestors by seeing pictures, reading histories or hearing their voices. They become real to us and we become more connected to them.

Think about what memories you can add and then “do it”.
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