A few Sundays ago I saw this beautiful sight in our church parking lot. I thought about capturing it to share sometime about The Cloud. When we talk about saving something to the cloud we are essentially saying that we are going to keep something off site. In other words some place in addition to our own hard drive on our home computer.
Some examples of "the cloud" are things like your email account, your Evernote account, your family tree on Ancestry, your orders from Amazon Prime Account, etc.
Of course FamilySearch is also a cloud based program. It stores our information for us. When it come to family history this is a wonderful thing for many reasons. I am not saying that this is the only place you should store things but is one of the many places you can and should do it.
There are many advantages to writing and preserving your family stories on Family Search in the Memories section of the Family Tree.
You may spend a lot of time writing memories in a small journal by your bedside but how much good will that do you if you are the only one who ever sees it? When you die will someone find it and see its value and preserve it? Many things like this get hastily tossed in the trash by well-meaning people that don't even know the person whose memory you have preserved in your book.
Stories can be written easily and quickly in Family Tree. These are not editable by anyone else. They don't have to be masterpieces. They are jewels to others seeking to know your common ancestors and relatives. Your stories are your own and protected in FS from anyone changing your story unlike the Life Sketch section of the Family Tree. Remember this as a very safe place.
To honor your mother this week please write a little tribute to her on FS/FT. If you need some ideas check out this blog I have on little stories on various people in our family.
http://onceuponanothertime.blogspot.com
Check out this post on Meridian Magazine by Joy Lundberg: A Letter To My Mother http://ldsmag.com/overdue-praise-for-my-mother-and-maybe-yours/
Remember to include pictures!
The little girl with the doll is my mom!
To me this picture is worth a thousand words.
Older Twins-William and Wilma Reese
Younger Twins Joseph and Josephine Reese
About 1923-24.
She lived on the prairie in South Dakota one of 9 children. Here mother died within a year of the photo being taken at 40 years old. Life was tough and made much worse by losing her mother at 5. No shoes, not a tree in sight or a flower. It was a brown dusty world for them and frozen solid with white snow in the winter. Those were such different times from today. That doll was probably her only earthly possession at the time, if it was even hers. I don't know.
The beauty of stories and photos is they capture the person in small memories. It doesn't have to be a life history to be valuable or to honor a person. Just a short story. Have fun memorializing your own sweet mom this week!
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