The RootsTech 2024 Family History Conference is right around the corner! This year’s session will be held from February 29th to March 2nd at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City. The cost to attend is $109 for the full three days ($99 early bird pricing ends today) and $69 for one day.… Read More “Remember” – RootsTech 2024
As we begin this new year of studying the Book of Mormon, aren’t we grateful for the written words of Nephi? Especially his small plates. Our 2024 theme for the Granite FamilySearch Center will be, “A Year of Remembering and Recording,” and we encourage you to work on writing your own “small plates.” We are… Read More A Year of Remembering and Recording
In the April 2022 General Conference, Elder Gerrit Gong noted, “We each have a story. As we discover our story, we connect, we belong, we become.” I would like to share how our family discovered the “story” of my grandfather’s early life. When I was growing up, my grandfather, Herbert Frost, lived with our family… Read More Miracle in a Box
Recently, with the time I have had at home, I decided to write my personal history. I have been keeping a journal off and on for many years, beginning with my missionary journal. I read through that first journal, in an effort to refresh my memory of events that occurred some time ago. As I… Read More How to Write Your Personal History in a Year
This September, will be the 5-year anniversary of my Mother’s death. She lived a long and full life. During her life, she was diligent in collecting and writing the stories of her family members, and herself. In addition to these written stories, about 5 weeks before her death, she went to the “Story Room” at… Read More Telling Your Story
When I was growing up, my mother, her siblings (there were 10 siblings) and my grandmother, would gather and share their experiences of the day and memories of the past. I loved listening to these stories of what it was like to grow up on a farm, in a time of little modern technology, in… Read More Love Notes To My Children