Christmas Stories

The Christmas season is here. Whether you are Christian, Jewish or other, this time of year is special. The birth of Christ, the re-dedication of the holy temple, or the return of lengthening days after the Solstice, are reasons to celebrate with family. And all families have stories.

What stories make Christmas special for you and your family? Do you remember when you believed in Santa Claus? Do you remember when you discovered he was really just your parents? Did you go caroling? Did you ever hear real sleigh bells in the snow? Did you ever spend Christmas in a strange or exotic place? Did your mother have special holiday recipes - cookies, candies, Christmas goose?

Do you know how your parents or grandparents celebrated when they were children?

If you are fortunate this season to spend holiday time with family, take time to ask, to listen, and remember holiday season stories. Then capture and preserve them.




Easy to postpone, but too important to forget.

Happy Holidays

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Online Legacy Makes Privacy Easy in 5 ways

Create and save a story as Private and No One can see or edit your story but you. The public stories under Explore are tutorials and examples created by the staff and users who wish to share their legacy stories.

You can share a Private story by emailing a secret link. The recipient does not need to be registered at Online Legacy to receive and view a secret story.

You can change your story status from private to public to private at any time. (You can also revise or delete your story).

When you purchase a Permanent Archive, all of your public and private stories can be viewed by whomever you share your access code with. (You can change your access code at any time).

Online Legacy is a Facebook App. You can choose to share Public stories on your "wall". Private stories are never shared with Facebook. Period.

What happens to your memories when you die?

Everyone has a story to tell. And capturing the story in a way that makes it easily accessible to your decedents is now easier than ever with OnLine-Legacy.Com. OnLine-Legacy.Com is a service to help baby-boomers create and capture the memories and photos that illuminate their lives and then store those memories so that future generations can get to know about you.

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You can also access the application from Facebook, here.

The menu text has changed. The functions are similar but improved.
EXPLORE lists of all public stories.
CREATE uses "templates" comprised of topic-specific questions.

Thanks to all for the feedback. Keep it coming.

Admin

3 ways to Share Your Legacy

is a Facebook application that establishes a connection from Online Legacy to your "wall". Click on fConnect and follow the instructions from Facebook to enable this feature. Online Legacy will send the title of any saved "public" story, as an invokable link to your wall. Private stories are never shared with Facebook. And when you are logged into Facebook, you are automatically logged into Online-Legacy.

Use Manage to share public and private stories with specific email addresses. The links are sent "encrypted" . The recipient(s) will be able to view your story with no requirement to Join Online Legacy.

Preserve your Legacy on PermaSite. Share the access code with your loved ones, heirs or leave it in your will. All of your legacy content will be viewable with the proper access code.

What is a legacy story?

To be a person is to have a story to tell.
Isak Dinesen

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it was true or not.
Mark Twain

Some people think we're made of flesh and blood and bone. Scientists think we're made of atoms. I think we're made of stories. When we die, stories are what people remember, the stories of our lives and the stories we told.
Ruth Stotter

Out of the blue and into the black.
Once you're gone, you never come back.
Neil Young, from the album Rust Never Sleeps

Create and Preserve your story at Online Legacy.

Leave a ripple

A legacy is a gift to the future often formed in words and pictures. A legacy is not an obituary (a contrite factual tribute usually written by a stranger for a newspaper). If there is a story in an obituary, it ends badly. So, rather than dwell on that story, create your own ripple for future generations with a legacy story.
Perhaps you are concerned or doubtful that anyone would be interested in your life or your stories. A good way to frame your mind, is to imagine that a favorite friend, child or perhaps an unborn grandchild will be the recipient of your story. It’s a good bet that their life will be touched by your gift.
A good story has a few key elements: character (or characters), intent (goals, desires, expectations), a catharsis (a significant event or conflict that changes the characters and the reader) and details (or the denouement to use a fancy word). There are many categories that could apply:

* Your first day at school – did a parent or grandparent take you?
* Your best friend growing up. Your best friend today.
* Your first date, your first love, your first child ..
* A significant academic, athletic or professional event ..
* A loss – your first funeral service, something more recent..

In fact there are probably too many categories. Let your mind linger on a few and a good story is certain to emerge. Your goal is not to document everything that ever happened to you – that could take a lifetime to write and another lifetime to read. No, the goal is to convey something special about your life in a story. And at the end of this effort, you may discover the true reward of creating a legacy story - a better understanding of your own life.