Comments on: Be Honest With Yourself: Keep Faith with Your Family

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:47:54 +0000

BMW, you must have a pamphlet from the kit that accompanied the posters when they were sent to wards to display. Awesome.

If any reader wants to contact BMW, write to ISD [at] consultant[dot]com.

By: BMW

BMW — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:26 +0000

I have a full booklet copy of this 1960 pamphlet is anyone is interested

By: m&m

m&m — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:36:10 +0000

he recognition that we owe something to our families in the way we live our lives. We aren’t free to go our own way as if those who nurtured us are of no consequence.

I like how you summarized this, Ardis. I think it’s a reminder going the other direction, too…that we owe something to those who come after us…that how we live our lives is not just about us, but about generations to come.

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:28:13 +0000

My immediate reaction was to be blinded by the white teethy smiles!

Pondering a little, I wondered if the text would get printed today. It’s very black and white and I think now we recognise that not all families are such. Love it as a period piece pic though, thanks for posting it!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:18:52 +0000

(Researcher has an amazing family history blog, and I’m glad that it’s now linked to her signature in comments. Y’all could get some fine ideas for sharing your own family history by exploring what she is doing.)

I heard once from a man who was the only child of an only child of an only child, and as far as he knew he had no relatives at all until by googling he ran across one of the first genealogical queries I posted when I came on to the internet in the early ’90s. (It’s things like this that make me keep the same email address.) We had second-great-grandparents in common, and I was able to send him a bundle that he said made him feel like he had a family. In his case, it wasn’t a matter of not keeping the faith (that line has never been LDS until my dad), but it was a matter of having broken that chain through time and distance.

Fortunately, the links can be welded again.

I think what I like best about this card’s text — and there are a lot of good lines — is the recognition that we owe something to our families in the way we live our lives. We aren’t free to go our own way as if those who nurtured us are of no consequence.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:08:24 +0000

That’s a fun picture. And an interesting text. The unbroken chain. I just heard from a distant cousin who happened to google my blog and has been spending hour after hour reading everything she can about the family. It sounds like her branch of the family did not remain in the church. She said very poignantly that all the family she knows personally would fit in her compact car. Five people! Including herself! It is wonderful to her to discover her extended family and amazing heritage.