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.