Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Are You Writing Your Personal History?

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

 

Our assignment this week from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:

1)  Are you writing about your own personal history?  What are you including?  How are you doing with it? Who will you distribute it to?  

Here is mine:
Last year at a genealogy writing retreat, my friend Stewart, was working on his autobiography. One evening, I could not sleep and got out my computer and starting writing about my own life. I got six pages written. I made it up to sixth grade, at least writing about my school days. I included photographs but no source citations. I see the date of the document is 9/17/2022. I have not added to it since.

I could not at first locate this file, but discovered that I have over 60 documents of blog posts I have written about myself for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, or 2011 Advent Calendar blogging memes. Examples of posts include:

• Elementary School Memories
• Fourth of July Memories
• Moving On Out
• Your Favorite Toy
• Your First Presidential Election
• Your High School Years

I certainly can take excerpts from these various posts and put them together to expand out my own autobiography. I think that us bloggers have a step up on other genealogists in writing our own story.

Copyright © 2023 by Lisa S. Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.