FamilySearch is a wonderful place to find new ancestors and to preserve and share our heritage. In the past, FamilySearch was simply a collaborative family tree. However, we can now upload and share our photos, documents, stories, and even audio recordings of our ancestors.
I love beig=ng able to create a story and attach a photo or more to the story and then share that story with my children and grandchildren. It's amazing how much our posterity really doesn't know that much about our lives. It's the private challenges or occupational stressors we may have gone through. It's the stories of our growing up that they have no concept of, or the early married life when they were still too small to really understand much of what may have been going on in our lives. Our struggles and successes are really not all that different than those that our children today may be experiencing. It's important for them to realize that their challenges are not unlike the ones we faced as we were starting out in life. We can express our feelings as well using the stories that we create.
Hopefully our FamilySearch Gallery is not empty of memories, both of ancestors, but also our own life adventures. It's such an easy process of uploading or creating those memories. Check
Did you know that you can upload photographs of your ancestors, attach them to stories, and then share them easily with family members? The same is true of your own life stories and photographs that you wish your posterity to remember you by.
The Media Gallery in FamilySearch is a place to help make our ancestors come alive for us and our own lives come alive for our posterity. FamilySearch is more than just a family tree. Being able to store their photographs, stories, audio recordings, and other documents is a great way to better understand the lives of our family members.
If you think about it, WE are also ancestors to our children and grandchildren (or one day will be). What better way to preserve our own heritage for our posterity to see. We lived our history. It's easier for us to write down those brief memories of challenges, successes, happy and sad times, and so forth. Our descendants won't have the perspective of our lives as we do. They can only write about their perceptions and experiences of life with us.
