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Family historians can be very good at telling the stories of their ancestors. If you have ever been to a family reunion and were “trapped” by one, you know what we mean. However, sometimes they forget to document their own lives – leaving a hole for their descendants. For example, not long after Matthew’s mother passed away, Matthew was sorting through her papers and discovered elaborate timelines of events from the lives of his mother’s parents and siblings, but nothing on herself. Although he could piece together some items from the other timelines, there was still a significant void because she didn’t tell her own story.

Now you might think that your story is boring and no one would want to hear it. But family historians sometimes wonder why a person made a certain decision or are interested in first-hand accounts of events that happened in the past. There are some applications for your computer, such as Personal Historian (www.rootsmagic.com/Personal-Historian), that assist you in writing your story. You can also find apps for your phone or tablet that record your memories – for example, Memories by FamilySearch. If you need some prompting to write your story, why not participate in the #52Stories project (https://familysearch.org/blog/en/52stories). The goal of the project is for you to write a story every week for a year, so that at the end of the year you have 52 stories of your life.