July 2011

Life Stories for Genealogists.

Tweet Interview on GeneaBloggers Blog Talk Radio Today I had the opportunity to share with some of the genealogy community on GeneaBloggers BlogTalk Radio the advantages of recording a life story and how that will become part of the history for future generation. If you want to listen to the show I’m on from about [...]

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Episode 54 : You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:34 — 18.7MB) Tweet What I got from creating a Life Story for my family! In 2010 I originally record the Life Story of my uncle for entirely selfish reasons only to discover that I could do so much more for others and myself than I could [...]

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Home Movies Show Your Life

Tweet Home movies from back in the day. For many years one of our uncles would pull out a video camera, hoist it onto his shoulder to video the new baby, bride or birthday. Nowadays we all have a camera in the bag, our pocket or in our phone but once, having film of our [...]

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Episode 53 : Silence – Nothing Helps Your Story

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:03 — 36.1MB) Tweet What is a vase? The container or the space within? Silence is like empty space, it doesn’t seem to be anything. But in actual fact, without the silence, the void, or the margins, the space around things is needed to make sense of [...]

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70 Year Journey Back in Time

Tweet Your own personal Time Machine Imagine for a moment stepping through a door, back in time to the dark days of WWII. What would you see if you could travel in that time machine? How many little things would be the same and how many would have changed? Recently a woman who owned a [...]

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Episode 52 : LifeStory Designing Your Life Story

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:47 — 44.0MB) Tweet LifeStory Designing your life in all the different ways. Once you’ve recorded the audio of the conversations and it’s time to Create Your Life Story, what do you do with all the other wonderful things from you life? Just have a look at [...]

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What Would a Young Mother Teresa Say

Tweet What would the young and old You say about your life? The younger generations are often shocked to find that You, their older relative, was once young. Even those who were there with you, who were also young with you, may have forgotten what you were like. When you were vibrant, strong and beautiful, [...]