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Show DAILY HERALD, Prow Continuedfrom C1 First mission Their work together began in Englandin 1990. They were both missionaries there, PUZZLE PIEC! and were I've had a lot of people ask me if | keep a journal. Yup. | do. One book for each of most of the past 45 years, they take up a few feet on the shelves. Id write in my journal in bed Maybe a dried drool Occasionally, | read my jour: nals. Sometimesthey're rivet ing. Mostly, 1 don’ t read them: They contain pain or are some: times boring When you talk about family history, journals are right at the center of important documents. The journal-keeper, an often: innocent recorder of events, feelings and ideis, lateroffers to others unvarnished historical truth. “And we weren't old!” Marie added. uring boredom ‘ After their Seattle missidn they got bored again, so they went on another one, This timeit was to NewZealand, where they had both always hopedto go. 4 to do family history work because they didn't know what to do.” Donasaid. So the two missionaries went successful that the recorder gi said, Dona said. “Neither of us knew genealogy wasn't as hard as peo the temple could tell where $e anything about a computer.” ttle from They learned, though, and now they each ownone. ple thought. Soon Dona and Marie were speaking in firesides, church meetings, regional conferences and they 1992 to 1993, and did family his- loves. Withevery page prede T have it, you would finc skippedpages, or days. TI talked to local lutionary, really, and there was no newinformation; it was just a wayof spreading the word that serawls. Pau Tripp As they about “We had no background,” ‘Sure. The two went to the bool about your adolescent time. the work. Wethought family his- church members, they realized something old people that many of them were“afraid asked the Church Office Building if we could go on a mission as companions, Once I wrote, “It's late and aneasy way ofdoingthis withdur havingte know so many details Dona said. But they learned, working 20 hours a week ordering and returning microfilms for the computers at thelocal familyhistory libraries. That's where It’s funny to see the sleep I'm tired, but we went to And there is a seribbly wiggly scrawl with no more words. Dona said. “We werecontinually speaking, telling people there's decide what to do the rest of the both the friendship developed that Yankee) for a time. would continue when they returned to Utah “We got home and we pretty bored.” Dona said who can argue it? director left it up to them to “We're even“flatmates” (roommates,to a Your journal. Or, your rela tve's. It's an excellent device of truth. Written the day of the event, taking 20 hours a week, their fifth-generation members of the church, and our people had already done most of about family history,” MAORI tory work there. Computers were another thing they didn't know much This was their first introduction to genealogy “We didn't know presentations really gained pqpularity, so much, infact, that the local temple workers could trdbe Dona and Marie's steps. 4 plifiedplan. It was nothing revo: “The method proved to be jo were working,” Donasaid, 4 ‘Their message for everydac interestedin tracing their family lines, especially everywhere Teaching others With their assigned work only too much New Zealand is where thgir to visit stake presidencies, Relief Society presidencies and area presidencies to share their sim Batea Personal journals best if kept fresh in regards 4 bo templework, is to just DOit; not as hard as you think. “We spoke in everything.” SM ITH Bypiecing together theinfor- pg/) and checked the listing of Medal of Honorrecipients way to celebrate this Memorial mationinhis letters with the half a year. But that’s better Continuedfrom C1 timeline ofevents for his divi (theseincludefull-text citations for each recipient detail served our country? missed a lifetime. Division, and which brigades muchabout his service in the formedthedivision. It also tells us whe 2 ned and that uits andselective service war, Wealso visited the U. Army Center of Military K. I tell myself. You miss a day va day there. Sometimes A journal is like an antique. We don't know its valuable until it’s too late. sion, we wereableto learn HEREARE somehighlights in my1984 journal: “We need to find ways of Day than to honor those wha. Juliana 8, Smithis the edis ing howthe honorwas earned). With a good guide to mili tor of Ancestry Daily News, a} free v-mail newsletter from tary records and a little detec tive work you canpreserve the heroes memory of the mil History's Web site (http://www2.army.mil/emh- Ancestry.com. She can be reached at askancestry' ances, try-ine.com in your family. What better enhancing relationships so that I'VE KEPTa journal by hand. I've kept a journal by computer. | prefer keepingit by growthin love can occur.” High sounding Sig day today. Hoagies, hand, although it’s a toss up. Keepingit by computer, you party, chicken, potato salad Yum.” Favorite food shows up can search the text for key frequently in my journals “Tneed a big immediate sale” Business hopes are in many words at lightening speed. Trouble is, there's nobody who wants to search my journals, whetherby lightening orby hand places There is admirationfor my dribbles and drools. By computer, vou eango back wife: “Leiloni is very pleasant, sweet, She has big health problems, but bears it patiently” Did you spot the bad English? My son, | wrote, “is serious about a girl, April. He likes her educational and musical attainments, her parents.” They marnied 8 months now have three children in Farmington. and change an entry to cut out Other first impressions are left erit's Keeping it by hand. nice to touch the same 5 as you weretouching then, By computer, you can create an index of names andplaces. By hand, you can see the drink glass rings. kids scribblings and improper remarks, or improve spelling or grammar. By hand, what you see is what you wrote. Doing a journal by hand, I a book with every page pre‘to get the big size ne book has an in the journal I myself decided to keep a jourr My journal. Yourjournal. Whatever. It’s an unexcelled device of truth, And all you did was write what happened to you and how vou felt annual v sar on the red cover Dairy Should you call a journal a diary, or a journal? 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