Family Search's #52Stories Project

Family Search, the LDS Church's family history website, has created a fun  project for 2017 that I am going to participate in. The project is called #52Stories and they introduced it in an article titled "Define Your Dash". Angie Lucas, the article's author, said that the dash in between our birth date and our death date represents our life. Only those who know us well will know what is in each of our "dashes", unless we record our lives for our posterity.

Writing our life's story in one sitting is a little daunting, and quite frankly, impossible. So Family Search came up with #52Stories. Family Search is encouraging us to write down one story from our life once a week for this year. At the end of 2017 we'll have 52 stories from our lives! Whether we write, type, share or keep it private, it doesn't matter.

To help give ideas about what stories to share, Family Search has a list of 144 questions. They also post one of those questions each Saturday on their facebook and Instagram page.

I created a new category on my blog: #52Stories, where I will be sharing stories from my life based on the weekly question from Family Search! I'm really excited about this because I've been feeling a little "writer's block" the past couple months, so I'm looking forward to some ideas on what to write about.

For January 7th the questions was: What goals do you hope to achieve this year? I already wrote my goals - or resolutions down - at the beginning of the year: My Resolutions for 2017.

For January 14th the questions was: What is something you taught yourself to do without help from anyone else? To read the story for that one, stay tuned! Also, if you plan on participating in this project, and you want to share your stories as well, please let me know so I can look for them, because I would love to read your stories too!