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What if you found your great-grandmother's biography?
Most of us think a biography is something you buy at a bookstore and for famous people. What would happen if you found a biography about your great-grandmother or great-grandfather? Would you read it? Do you think you would learn a lot more about her or him? If the biography included pictures, would you enjoy seeing what they looked like?
Our great-grandparents, for the most part, lived in the turn of the 1900s. They would have used horses for transportation and later would have owned multiple cars over their life. Wouldn’t it be interesting to know the make and models of the cars they owned?
In their homes, it’s probable that they cooked on a wood-burning stove and kept food refrigerated in an ice box. Outside the cities, it was common that candles provided light. Heat in cold weather came from wood fireplaces or coal in a stove. They eventually experienced the evolution to the creature comforts we have today.
Our great-grandparents lived in a time of life-changing inventions, but it was also a time of turmoil. Two World Wars, a Cold War that could have rendered the earth lifeless, and an economic Great Depression that left destruction and death worldwide.
It’s a certainty that our great-grandchildren will find our stories as interesting as we find our great-grandparents. However, those stories will disappear if you don’t write your stories in a biography. Think about your biography as a genealogy or family history book. And keep in mind that your stories matter.
Our great-grandparents, for the most part, lived in the turn of the 1900s. They would have used horses for transportation and later would have owned multiple cars over their life. Wouldn’t it be interesting to know the make and models of the cars they owned?
In their homes, it’s probable that they cooked on a wood-burning stove and kept food refrigerated in an ice box. Outside the cities, it was common that candles provided light. Heat in cold weather came from wood fireplaces or coal in a stove. They eventually experienced the evolution to the creature comforts we have today.
Our great-grandparents lived in a time of life-changing inventions, but it was also a time of turmoil. Two World Wars, a Cold War that could have rendered the earth lifeless, and an economic Great Depression that left destruction and death worldwide.
It’s a certainty that our great-grandchildren will find our stories as interesting as we find our great-grandparents. However, those stories will disappear if you don’t write your stories in a biography. Think about your biography as a genealogy or family history book. And keep in mind that your stories matter.
