{"id":12615,"date":"2020-05-19T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12615"},"modified":"2020-05-17T22:25:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:25:23","slug":"we-will-become-only-a-name-unless-there-is-a-written-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/we-will-become-only-a-name-unless-there-is-a-written-record\/","title":{"rendered":"We Will Become Only A Name, Unless There Is A Written Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My grandmother passed away back in November of 2007.\u00a0 She was one of my dearest friends.\u00a0 Before she passed away she took the time to write her life history for me and for my children, and their children, and so on.\u00a0 I could share many thoughts on why recording your life history is so important to do in this life, but rather than sharing it in my own words, I think it would be much more powerful to share my Grandmother\u2019s words as written on the back cover of her own life history:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo my children, their children, their children, and theirs\u2026\u00a0 These pages have been written to tell you something about the years of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four things have been responsible for my recording these things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. A beloved husband who has persisted in gentle prodding and\nencouragement for me to leave a record for the posterity he and I share. \nWithout this, my story might have remained untold.  As always, he led the\nway, preparing his own life\u2019s history before asking me to do mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Living at a time when our prophets have emphasized the\nimportance of leaving to our posterity an account of what has been important to\nus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Having a knowledge, gained through much ancestral research, of\nhow rewarding it is to know something about our family who have preceded us.\nAnd,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. That desire within each of us, that our posterity know that among their progenitors there was me \u2013 that I also once lived upon earth, experienced the richness of life, knew joy and sorrow, had a sure knowledge (born of the Spirit) of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 That I also loved \u2013 my spouse, my children and grandchildren, my friends, associates, leaders, and all mankind.\u00a0 When those who knew me have left mortality, I will become only a name, unless there is a written record.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What an incredible woman she was!\u00a0 And what powerful words she shared:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u201cWhen those who knew me have left mortality, I will become only a name, unless there is a written record.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 – Naomi Pearson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a powerful reminder as to why it is so important to write our own life histories.\u00a0 To keep a journal of our important experiences and life lessons; a record of our joys and sorrows; a record of how we lived and how we loved.\u00a0 I’m eternally grateful that my Grandmother left us her life history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t leave behind only a name\u2026.leave a written record…write your life history as it will be the gift you leave your children, and their children, and their children…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Naomi Pearson
(beautiful Grandmother of
Amy Rees Anderson)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My grandmother passed away back in November of 2007.\u00a0 She was one of my dearest friends.\u00a0 Before she passed away she took the time to write her life history for me and for my children, and their children, and so on.\u00a0 I could share many thoughts on why recording your life history is so important […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23624,395,482,7335,4158,475,66,23626,23625,3409,5167,23620,23627,23623,23223,23622,23621],"class_list":["post-12615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-record-for-your-posterity","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-genealogy","tag-generations-to-come","tag-grandma-pearson","tag-grandmother","tag-journal","tag-know-your-ancestors","tag-leave-an-account-of-what-has-been-important-to-you","tag-life-history","tag-naomi-pearson","tag-only-a-name-unless-there-is-a-written-record","tag-the-hearts-of-the-children-turn-to-their-fathers","tag-what-did-your-life-mean","tag-write-your-life-history","tag-your-children-and-their-children","tag-your-legacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12618,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615\/revisions\/12618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}