Family History Friday Writing Exercise

For Friday today and possibly forever, I'll post a writing exercise that deals with family history.

President James E. Faust said this: "It is a joy to become acquainted with our forebears who died long ago. Each of us has a fascinating family history. Finding your ancestors can be one of the most interesting puzzles you young men can work on." Here's a link to his talk on family history: The Phenomenon That is You by President James E. Faust

And I know that to be true!  I did some family history last Saturday and found that someone had linked one line of my family lineage all the way back through the Plantagenet line which then leads to Charlemagne.  Still need to do some in depth research on this line myself to make sure it is all good and true to my lineage.  Still cool nonetheless.

Since Thursday was your journal day, today, take a picture of someone in your family history and do a description of them.  What do they look like?  What are they wearing?  If it's a black and white or old sepia photo, what do you think the colors on their clothes were when the photograph was taken?  Do you know anything about this person?  If you do, write it down.  If you don't, speculate a little bit.  Try to guess what they liked to do during the daylight hours.  Don't ask anyone about them this week.  Just do some speculation and listen to the spirit as you try to figure out your ancestor.  You may figure some things out on your own that someone could have told you.  But if someone told you, is it really that more special than if the spirit confirms to you that you know your own family?

Good luck!