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Contents:
1. Our welcome message.
2.
Featured Article
– Account for your Lifetime - Time in My Pocket by
Michael R. Boyter
3. News
from Ancestry.co.uk
4. Next
Months Featured Article: Preserving
The Past With Video Author:
Bob
Brooke
1. Our welcome message.
Happy New Year!
Hello and welcome to your first newsletter of 2011.
First a WARNING! Make sure to back up all your files on your computer
regularly...I normally do but I missed a few months and the result was
that I had to retrieve hundreds of files from my websites on the Internet!
(I have lots of websites)
This took such a long time that I missed a couple of months of this
newsletter. Also I lost a lot of saved stuff that wasn't held in a website
due to my computer crashing on me.
Learn from my hard earned lesson...back up your files
regularly. You can get an external hard drive here:
PC World.(UK
readers) or try Amazon.
Remember "searching on Genes Reunited is fun and easy;
we now have over 11 million members registered on our site and over 750
names in trees and records. This makes us one of the biggest players in
the Family History market." Search over 500 million names at Genes Reunited.co.uk
Enjoy the rest of your newsletter.
Jim
2.
Featured Article
Account for your Lifetime - Time in My Pocket
Written
by Michael R. Boyter
It's been said that nothing disappears faster than
money!
There have been times that I have had a fairly good
amount of money in my pocket. This has usually been when I started out on
a trip of some kind; a vacation for example.
Call it a false sense of security or maybe even
laziness, but I usually never bother with keeping too close of a watch
over how much money I have actually spent while on this trip. Just pull
another twenty out of the ole pocket and move along.
"I've plenty of money", I think to myself.
A hotel room paid for here and another dinner there.
Another twenty-dollar bill goes toward a souvenir and then don't forget
about breakfast the next morning right before I fill up my car with fuel
and hit the road again.
I reach a point in my trip that I begin to notice that
the wad of twenty-dollar bills is unexpectedly smaller. Suddenly with
great concern I hesitantly stop and count the money that is in my pocket.
I'm afraid to actually know the answer.
I lament to myself that I should have been keeping
better track. At the same time, I tell myself that, next time, I'll keep
better track.
When I started out on the trip, I felt that I had plenty
of money.
My mind races back, franticly. A feeling of defeated
comes over me, as I try to retrace where all the money went! What follows
is a sunken feeling, often accompanied by a big bought of depression. How
could I let so much of it get away from me? I sit and wonder where it all
has gone.
Consider now the years in your lifetime and compare them
to the money in the above story. Can you see any comparisons?
It an awful feeling when you cannot account completely
for all the years you've lived. Where have all the years gone?
I just finished reading "The Notebook", written by my
favorite author Nicholas Sparks. There is a passage near the end of that
book that really made an impression on me and reinforced thoughts that
I've always had about keeping journals and life stories.
The elderly central figure in the story is reflecting
back over his life:
"I wonder what my daddy would think of my life.I HAVE
NOT SEEN HIM FOR FIFTY YEARS and he is now but a shadow in my thoughts. I
cannot picture him clearly anymore; his face is darkened as if a light
shines from behind him. I am not sure if this is due to a failing memory
or simply the passage of time. I have only one picture of him and this too
has faded. In another ten years it will be gone and so will I, and his
memory will be erased like a message in the sand. IF NOT FOR MY DIARIES, I
WOULD SWEAR I HAD LIVED ONLY HALF AS LONG AS I HAVE. Long periods of my
life seem to have vanished. And even now, I read the passages and wonder
who I was when I wrote them, for I cannot remember the events of my life.
THERE ARE TIMES I SIT AND WONDER WHERE IT ALL HAS GONE! "
Just as he could swear he'd lived only half the years he
had, I would swear that I somehow should have had more money left. Since I
failed to keep a record, I can no longer remember completely where all the
money went.
Likewise the memories we have of our parents will surely
fade to varying Degrees without taking measure to record stories and
events from their lives; now while they are still alive. If our parents
have passed on already, go to work at gathering all the memories of him or
her from living relatives such as your aunts, uncles, brothers and
sisters.
The memories and lives of our parents and grandparents
are not completely gone until the last person with a memory of them, is
also passed away. A story forgotten can never be retold!
I have long been a believer in keeping a journal or
diary and preserving our life story, both for our own benefit and that of
our children and our children's children.
Your life story should contain memories from your past,
who you currently are and what you've done with your life so far. Also
include what you presently believe, think, value, hope and dream for.
So take some time and write at least a little about your
unique life. This undertaking will be the difference between contently
looking back over your life and sadly swearing that you've only lived half
the time that you have.
Happy is the man that can trace a line from the end of
his life back to the beginning.
It's been said that nothing disappears faster than time!
About the author Michael Boyter is giving away his
newest e-book. Download FREE "Family History Jumpstart". Thirty pages of
inspiration and motivation for all of us who have a story to tell. Isn't
time you told your story? Subscribe to their newsletter and visit their
site here!
3. News from Ancestry.co.uk
Ancestry.com Creates
Strategic Alliance With National Geographic Digital Media
New Features Bring Further Discovery of Family History
Online
PROVO, Utah, November 16, 2010–
Ancestry.com is pleased to announce it has created a strategic
alliance with National Geographic Digital Media to help
individuals make new discoveries in their family history. As part
of the relationship, NationalGeographic.com will host a family
history experience online, developed by Ancestry.com, which
enables visitors to learn more about researching their genealogy
and provides specific tools for them to search their ancestral
roots located on the Genographic Project website.
“We are always looking for unique ways to connect
with people interested in their family history and have forged a
great alliance with NationalGeographic.com,”said John Pereira,
Vice President of Business Development, at Ancestry.com. “With our
development of this new experience on the Genographic Project
website, we believe we can help individuals understand how
exciting family history can be as they find further success in
discovering their own family history.”
The new feature is an add-on to National
Geographic’s existing Genographic Project Web portal that helps
chart the migration history of the human species using DNA
analysis. This additional online experience offers the ability to
start an online family tree, tips on how to get started with
researching family history and links to important historical
record collections that are searchable on Ancestry.com.www.Ancestry.co.uk
4. Next months featured article:
Preserving The Past With Video Author:
Bob
Brooke
...The important stories of their lives often get lost
in time or become misconstrued when passed down from one person to
another. Sure, you can get a feeling for them by seeing them in old
photos, but that doesn't really make them come alive. Video, on the other
hand, does. Of course, you'll have one limitation–you can only conduct a
video interview of a person if they're still alive...Full story next
issue. Don't miss it.
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