by Jeanne Peugh, Stake Family History Center Director
Recently I had the opportunity to teach a class on adding memories to our family history and the importance of it. We are blessed to be able to add this information, not just about our life, but the lives of our ancestors of which we knew and stories that may have been written about them. When we add stories and pictures, our ancestors become more than just a name on our pedigree chart. One of our prophets shared the following:
“I urge all the people of this church to give serious attention to their family histories, to encourage their parents and grandparents to write their journals, and let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children or grandchildren, and their posterity. This is a duty and a responsibility.”
“People often use the excuse that their lives are uneventful and nobody would be interested in what they have done. But I promise you that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren and others, on through the generations… Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us–and as our posterity read of our life’s experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted.”
(Spencer W. Kimble, Ensign, Dec. 1980)
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