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Family stories are lost over three generations unless they are recorded and preserved. Don’t wait to start preserving your precious memories. Think how excited you would be to find a journal kept by your long-ago ancestor. It’s time to start your own journey. The prompts in Sharing Family Stories and Memories will guide you and help jog your memory. Have fun and start writing!

It is important as genealogists that we not forget about writing our own story. Finding an ancestor diary is a huge thrill. But what about our own memories and stories? We need to preserve them for future generations.

I invite you to begin your personal genealogy journey. Start your own journal and write your stories. Use the prompts in this book to jog your memory or guide you. Write daily or weekly or monthly, but write!

Lorine McGinnis Schulze is the creator and owner of Olive Tree Genealogy website  which she established in 1996. She is also the creator of several other websites, all bringing free genealogical content online for genealogists and historians.  Lorine has an Honors B.A. in Psychology and a B.Ed. For 20 years she taught teenage boys who could not be in regular schools because of behavior issues. Before that she was a child care worker working with younger children with emotional disturbances, autism, developmental delays and cerebral palsy.  Now she spends her days working on her genealogy websites and blogs and writing her mystery novels.  Visit Olive Tree Genealogy and read more about Lorine and her books here.