Crista, this is life-changing.

Thank you for doing this! Saving to favorites now!

Thanks for granting this comment platform to share. I love Family History and working on my family tree help me become more fantastic with my ancestors. They appears to be physically present when mentioning their names. I thank God for my father to be able tofeed me with the information i needed to build on my tree. I thank God for this revelation giving to the prophet Joseph Smith about our ancestors. I know that am the seventh generation of my great, great, great grandfather. ATANG AKWAWEGH whose name am yet include in my Tree.

What a fantastic presentation!! Loved every minute and learned so much. Thank you.

I'm so lucky that i record my conversation with my dad a few years before he passed. He was telling me various stories about his childhood, about school time in war, aboit his first marriage, and so much more. Now, almost 10 years after that special day, i would not remember about those stories if i didn't record it

I cannot find your story online yet but I am looking. I think you are fabulous and you are so authentic and genuine when you speak; your stories and your warmth and emotion bring tears to my eyes (and your sense of humour always cracks me up). Keep up the excellent work.

Oh Crista. I think you're absolutely fabulous 🌹

I love your story telling.

Wow! Thank you for this video! It’s funny I just realized that I AM the storyteller of my family. I wrote the memories of my mother-in-law with her help, five years ago. But not every member (nieces and nephews) wanted the printed documents. At that time, I told myself it’s okay, they work and have young children, they don’t have time. But with the Ancestry’s story maker, this would be a great opportunity for them to have shorts stories to read it! That is also another great opportunity to keep a family contact, so thank you for this application!

#storyteller#believeinyourself#thankyou#Godbless thanks ma'am stay safe always 💕😘 🌎

Thank you!! I am the family storyteller and needed help knowing how to get family interested. Excellent activity I'll use in my next family zoom:) and practice stopping when their eyes glaze over lol.

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Such a great woman.

#familyhistory#believeinyourself❤

As one Storyteller to another: Great Job! Humor, Helpfulness, and Heritage. A winning combination. Thanks!!

Love watching all your videos! Gets me so excited to dive back into my genealogy. Can’t wait to try writing a few love stories about myself, my parents and grand parents. Thank you!

I agree with your mother. Lovely color

I’ll include a link to this in my ward’s monthly family history news letter. Most of the time I feel like I’m talking to a wall. Perhaps this will awaken some to be interested. Thanks.

My story for my grandparents: Prison Honeymoon. Neither of them was in jail, but the TN State Penitentiary had just purchased an electric chair (1924), so they took the 70 mile trip in a model A to see the contraption. I have seen a photo of my grandmother in the prison yard, but the photos in my uncle's attic disappeared, and that was one of them. Oh, and they met at a box social. The single women in the rural community made lunch baskets that the single men bid on to raise money for a new schoolhouse. My siblings Sister 1. After meeting on a blind date, he heard she wanted to go out again, and he had nothing better to do. (BTW - they were engaged 4 weeks later) Sister 2: She made a deposit at the bank, and the next day received a call from the branch manager (They were engaged 6 weeks later) Brother: My brother went to the VA benefits office to check on his GI bill and 3 months later was married to the secretary.

Very nice! Thank you!

Crista, I love listening to your talks and hearing your stories! Thank you for your inspiration.

We need to tell our own story too. Otherwise our children and grandchildren may, and it just won't be the same...Great session! Fantastic ideas.

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One of my grandsons is the spitting image of my maternal grandfather. So handsome!

That was so well told - wonderful - what a great story - inspired me for sure. I love your ideas for inspiring her. By the way - you are awesome - followed you for a long time. Bless you.

I have my mom writing her story for me and before my grandmother died I had her write about her life. Every time my mom talks to her brother on the phone and I'm getting her side of the story, I ask her about it later and then tell her to write it down. I've always meant to ask you, when you and your dad work on your matches together I'm assuming you've done the Leeds Method or something similar to sort your matches into the correct family lines, is this correct?