I have done this on both my Husband and myself and am so glad as at 85 he is forgetting quite quickly things both distant and recent. I look at mine now and then and add to it. Maybe the family will be interested maybe not but how I wish my Grandparents and even my parents had written their life story down I don't even know how or where my parents met! Bev M Wet Whitianga -----Original Message----- From: Judith Harper Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 9:49 AM To: new-zealand@rootsweb.com Subject: [nz] Crop query and a life recorded Last evening I sent a query to the list about a farm crop grown in Southland and got several helpful answers on opening up this morning's email. Thanks to all for those. But I also thought I would tell listers why the query arose. A year or two back this friend decided she would like to write about her life for her children and grandchildren. So she did - she didn't plan and procrastinate and think about how it should be - she just wrote in a topical way, under headings and with a few photographs, as time and thoughts came to her. Perhaps she planned to sort and edit later on. But she can't - she died, quickly and unexpectedly, and that bright light has gone. But what a lovely treasure she has left those children and grandchildren, because she got on and did it when she could, as best she could. It's an easy enough matter for somebody like me to take what she wrote and shape it up a bit, tidy up stray apostrophes and form it into paragraphs and get it ready for the husband to print. But other people can never replace memories of happy days. So my urging here is simply to write those memories, good and bad, down now - don't presume that one day a brightly turned out, multi generation family tree will happen and will fill the need. Write what you can while you can, just in case . . . Regards Judith The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message