Grandma Would Be Proud

Not your grandma's genealogy anymore

If family history and genealogy have a future, we are going to need young people to join the ranks. Everything is heading toward the digital world where the youth excel and some of us grandpas and grandmas struggle.  Click here for a story about some kids in Houston who have taken the challenge.

Rising Generation: No Longer is Family History Just for the Old

 

For most of my life, I have been the "anomaly" when it comes to family history. I started when I was about 11 years old and have been doing it ever since. Then, I eventually grew up and became just one more of those old people who do genealogy. I have hope, however, that things are changing. Today the young are getting involved in family history and genealogy in numbers and ways we never dreamed of. Here are a couple of stories to illustrate what I mean.

LDS youths eagerly move family history work along 

 

 

 

Youth 'hastening the work' through family history work