Users are the Who of Legacy Tools, but no matter whether you are Living Your Legacy Now so family and friends will have great stories about you, or you are writing or recording personal and family history for posterity, you need to know who your audience is. But you cannot know the future. Whether you see this […]
Who Constructs the Ws of Legacy Tools
We recently covered the Who of Legacy Tools as a thinly disguised U for Users. There are more Ws in the Legacy tool kit. The classic 5 Ws of inquiry also include what, when, where, and why, in addition to the who. My Story, Told By Others No matter what, legacy is largely a […]
Veracity – The V of Legacy Tools
Veracity is another word for honesty. Veracity as Policy Veracity is not only the best policy, in legacy it is the only policy. One, single fudged reference or date and everything you have ever done is doubted. This is especially true in historical or genealogical research. Collectively the legacy all women […]
The X Y Z of Legacy Tools
are for axes in graphic depictions as legacy tools. No, really, I am not cheating for the A to Z of Legacy in the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I could have written three different posts about each axis in a three dimensional graph or cubic structure, but it really makes more sense to discuss […]
Recipes – The R of Legacy Tools
Boxes Before their were personal computers, foodies, and food sites sharing every recipe known to humankind, there were recipe boxes and a few treasured cookbooks in every kitchen. The recipe box I best remember was a dark wooden one. It was mortice and tenon joined box, and the short sides were curved. My mother treasured […]
Timeline Templates – T of Legacy Tools
Timelines are some of the most under-utilized genuinely useful tools at your disposal. Linkage I am rarely a proponent of linear tools, but timelines can be extremely useful. By turning time into a list, we engage our brains in thinking about sequence. First this, then that… and that often triggers memories of people, events, and […]