Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 8 May 2016.<\/p>\n
Just back from the National Genealogical Society conference in Ft. Lauderdale and it was awesome.\u00a0 Wonderful to meet face-to-face with folks I have only interacted with online and some I haven\u2019t seen in person in awhile.<\/p>\n
The only downer was that a colleague of mine from my primary job had to cancel at the last minute due to a family emergency.\u00a0 She is working towards a PhD in creative writing and was looking forward to attending the writing workshops that were offered.\u00a0 Additionally, she is interested in family history and is the keeper of her family\u2019s records so the conference was a great fit for her.<\/p>\n
As genealogists, we typically place our family\u2019s first so her disappointment in missing the conference was minimized by her right on priorities.\u00a0 This got me thinking of the lost opportunities that we often miss with our own family members.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful to just have one hour with that brick wall ancestor (and maybe a translator included!)?\u00a0 Don\u2019t you wish you could ask dearly departed Great Aunt Alice a couple of questions?\u00a0 Recording her answers would be icing on the cake.<\/p>\n
Do yourself and the generations to come a favor and ASK TODAY your mom, grandma, and if you\u2019re really lucky, great grandma, what you\u2019re dying to know.\u00a0 Make sure you write it down (and seriously, cite it).\u00a0 It\u2019ll be a Mother\u2019s Day gift that will be appreciated long into the future.\u00a0 Enjoy your day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 8 May 2016. Just back from the National Genealogical Society conference in Ft. Lauderdale and it was awesome.\u00a0 Wonderful to meet face-to-face with folks I have only interacted with online and some I haven\u2019t seen in person in awhile. The only downer was that a colleague of mine from my … Continue reading “Life is Short, Do it Now!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archiving","tag-family-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}