Take time to record and preserve your own personal history as well as taking care of your family’s genealogy. Amy Coffin of the We Tree Blog has authored this fine series of 52 prompts (one for each week of the year) to help you achieve your personal or family history goals. Use these prompts, as you see fit, to chip away at recording your memories as well as life’s lessons learned for the benefit of future descendants. Use your computer or record your memories on paper. If you have a blog, record them there. These make great prompts for interviewing relatives, too.
Many thanks to www.GeneaBloggers.com for hosting Amy’s series on their site. Go there if you’d like to join the genealogy blogging community, or if you’d like to see aggregated comments on this series from many genealogy bloggers.
Here’s this week’s challenge/prompt: Trouble
Week 40: What happened when you got into trouble as a child? What was punishment like in your home?
R. S. Murphy of Mesa, AZ was often sent to his room. His mother thought being in his room, on his bed with nothing to do, would be a good incentive to not get in trouble from that time forward. To her exasperation, she would find him on his bed pretending to be Vin Scully, the American sportscaster known as the play-by-play voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Much to her chagrin, he was having the time of his life!
How was it with punishment in your home? Write your memories today.
Consider using Personal Historian Software to simplify your journal/personal history writing. It will keep things organized for you as you write a litte each week. It has wonderful timelines and personal history prompts.
Remember that keeping a journal is part of your own history-in-the-making. Don't let expense stop you from writing. Use a 3-ring binder or spiral notebook if it suits your style. If you'd like a more professionally designed journal, you might find the perfect journal at Amazon or Galison and Mudpuppy.
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Note: Examiner Carolyn Murphy resides in Mesa, AZ.
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