"I don't like FAMILY HISTORY, I just like the HISTORY of my FAMILY"
We just got home from our friend's house and he was telling us some wonderful & fascinating stories about his family's history. He didn't realize he was a closet "family historian." In fact, my favorite quote of the night was, "I don't like family history, I just like the history of my family," which he insisted was different until we pointed out this quote by Elder Alan F Packer to him: "Family history is more than genealogy, rules, names, dates, and places. It is more than a focus on the past. Family history also includes the present as we create our own history. It includes the future as we shape future history through our descendants. A young mother, for example, sharing her family stories and pictures with her children is doing family history work." (One of my favorites, I might add). So the point is, after listening to his stories and witnessing the pride he had in his heritage it made me reflect on the fact that we all likely h
