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Creating a Living Legacy Website can take several forms. It can be your story and how you view it. It can be the story of your family from your point of view. It can be a composite of your research into your family with old journals, letters and scraps of paper from old boxes. You may want to document a family line back several generations or you may just want tell a simple story of when a girl met a boy.

No matter what kind of Living Legacy Website you want to create, all of them have one thing in common. The story is important. It is important to tell this story so that the beliefs and values, the history and knowledge, the wisdom learned will not be lost. Now is the time to make the story come alive. Preserve the story on a Living Legacy Website.

An example of a single family or one generation Living Legacy Website

• What is a Living Legacy Website?
• How long would I need to spend on it?
• What goes into a Living Legacy Website?
• Who creates a Living Legacy Website?
• How will I benefit?
• Can I also make a book?
• What are the steps?
• What does it cost?

A Living Legacy Website is a blog, website, or place on the Internet where you have gathered information and stories pertaining to your life or your family. More importantly, it has meaningful memories of your life, your decisions or choices, the outside events of history that have shaped your life, and the values or spiritual beliefs that you have garnered through living your story.

Future generations will read history through your eyes. They will come to know you through this Living Legacy Website.

Some families have a gift for sharing stories, writing journals and letters, and saving things. In my family there are several books available detailing the family history from different viewpoints. One history holds every child born in the family to the 7th generation. And there it stops. One history is only stories and two generations of history. There are many more.

Depending on your goals, you can write a few pages in an hour or two. If you are interested in something more complex, it may be a project you work on for weeks or months. Some people update changes and new events regularly or annually.

You decide which aspects of your life to focus on and which specific incidents to include. You decide the perspective from which you will write. Readers of family histories want to know what the people in the story did, what they believed, how they lived and how they felt.

The time you will spend on this project will be as much or as little as you would like to spend. If this is a family project, then others can write different chapters or lines of information. You can even set it up so that they can upload information but you have the final edit and publishing rights.

If you would like photos added to the website, then you will need to take the time to gather photos.

Trying to find dates for major life events can be easy depending on whether anyone else has pulled that information together and made it available.

We can supply you with a list of questions that you can fill out on your own or we can set up a time for an interview either on the phone or skype to help you gather the information needed.

If you like, we can take the information, dates and photos you give us and write the story for you. You would of course have editing rights.

For a simple family history of one person or a single generation, the time involved can be very minimal. The Living Legacy Website could be finished in a week or two.

For a more involved family history, it would entail digging out old journals, letters and scraps of paper from old boxes. It would require contacting relatives, even those without Internet access who read letters. It would mean taking advantage of public databases for births, deaths, and marriages.

This would be a project that would lend itself to a blog type layout which would allow you to add posts to different categories we initially set up, weeks, months down the road. But this will be a site that will be rich in history for your family for many generations.