Family Tree Journaling (History Journaling)

Family Tree Journaling (History Journaling) 

A NEW BLOG POST SERIES: FAMILY TREE JOURNALING
This will become a new blog post series, by the way. So, stay tuned.

FAMILY TREE JOURNALING IS REALLY HISTORY JOURNALING
Family Tree Journaling is learning about history through your family tree.

NOTE FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW YOUR FAMILY TREE:
First of all, let me apologize if this brings pain for any of you who do not know your family tree. It is not my intent.
Therefore, please, think about making your own history of your possible family tree through journaling.
How? You can do this through learning about history.
Learn about your national history and the world history of each time frame, for as long back as we have a recorded history. Your life has been shaped and influenced by this, whether you know your family tree. So, please, still read and do these blog posts and journaling suggestions. It still applies to you.
You can use the family history of the family who adopted you, if you desire. After all, their tree is your tree. Blood doesn't make anyone less part of a family. They chose you for a reason. However, if your adoptive situation was not very good, then look at the next suggestion.
Otherwise, I suggest you use the history of a famous person from that time period and answer/do the following Family Tree Journaling.
Or, here is another suggestion. Check out this blog and you can use my family instead and do your own journaling: http://lhtmft.blogspot.com/

WHY DO FAMILY TREE JOURNALING?
It's important to know where you came from and the vents that shaped who you are today. The events of history has shaped who you are today and who you will become.

FAMILY TREE JOURNALING INSTRUCTIONS
1 Pick a family member, if you know one, or a famous person from your nation at the time. If your nation didn't exist in the time period, pick a nation from a nation you know you came from then, and had an ancestor from them, or pick a famous individual from that time period and from the place you could have been from.
Write the name in your journal.
2 Get to know everything you can about the individual from #1. Journal about them.
3 Learn everything you can about the history from that time. Learn the national and world history. Journal about it. Get down the facts in your journal. Focus on the facts that jump out at you for whatever reason--and make sure to write why those facts jumped out at you.
4 Take 2 and 3 and combine them. Imagine you are a person living in this period of time in history. Write what their life must have been like in your journal. Use your imagination.
5 Now, answer these questions in your journal:
A What did I learn?
B How does this apply to me and my life today?
Never answer that it doesn't. After all, the reality is, it does. History has shaped who you are today and your life story. Period. End of story. All stories connect and link. Each story is sacred. Every story we learn about or here impacts our lives today and it does so in a personal way. Every story shapes our story today. We can learn what to do or what not to do through them. We can learn how God worked in, through, and around the past person's lives and see similarities, as well as differences, in our own story.

Updated March 05, 2014 1322 p.m.