Preserve Your Heritage

Preserve your heritage when putting together your photo album or scrapbook. You can also preserve your heritage by saving mementos and memorabilia in a family or your own personal time capsule.

Turn your two dimensional photos into a great story for others to see and read about in your photo album or scrapbook. Review the following questions to give you ideas of how to preserve your heritage and tell these stories. Your children and great grandchildren can learn a lot from you in the future when you tell what your life story looks like now. How did you handle the good and hard times in your life? What motivates you daily? Who are your mentors in life and how have they helped you?

• Describe who is in your photos.
• When and where was the photo taken?
• Why was the photo taken? What story does it tell?
• How are the people in the photo related to you or how do they know you?
• What did your parents do for a living while you were growing up? What do they do now? Do they like it? Why or why not?
• What was your family’s beliefs or religion growing up?
• When and where were you and your siblings born?

• Where did you, or your parents, grow up? What did you like/dislike about the that place?
• What were your special interests or hobbies growing up? Have any of these changed over the years?
• If you have ever moved, what happened to make you move?
• Who were/are your life mentors? Who are your best friends? How and where did you all meet?
• What are the major differences between what life was like when you were a kid, compared to now?
• When you think of these photos, what feelings come up in you? Why do you think that is?

• Future generations will wonder who is in your photos, so make sure you say who all is in the photos and how you know them.
• What are your greatest accomplishments in life? Make sure you have photos of these times and even include certificates you have received in your photo album, scrapbook, or time capsule.
• What is your life motto? How did you come up with that? Do you have a family motto or saying to? If so, what is that?
• How is your life different than you imagined it would be when you were younger?
• What did you want to be when you grew up? Have you continued the family tradition of being a doctor, lawyer, teacher, etc?
• What are your favorite or least favorite things? Save these items in your time capsule.
• What are your nicknames? Who gave them to you and why?

• What do you like about yourself and what would you change if you could? Who do you look like the most in your family?
• How did your upbringing influence the person you are today?
• Who is your hero and why? This can be a childhood hero or someone who has greatly impacted your life?
• How would your friends and family describe you? Let your friends and family fill out the “Message to the Future” letters included in the “Any Occasion” DIY Time Capsule. What do they predict your life will look like 20 or 30 years from now when you open your time capsule?
• What was the best piece of advice you ever received?
• What important lesson have you learned that you’d like to pass on to your own children or great grandchildren?

How do you preserve your heritage? Comment below.

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