Just by knowing that my great-grandfather’s sister was married and was never able to have children just like me gave me a comfort knowing that someone in my family went through the exact same thing I am going through now.

They want to pass on to us what they know. And most of the time, the only way that we can figure that out is by understanding their stories.

[Connecting] It's like taking a natural anti-depressant.

Oxytocin is as vital to our function as food, water and air.

The more we can open up and be vulnerable about our own struggles, it allows others to open up and we can heal together.

The importance of our relationships applies to everyone...we can all benefit from this.

I learned that telling the good and bad from my own personal history was helping me heal physically.

Doing indexing and researching really gives you a different perspective of life. How you're not the only one with trials. How things can be tough but life goes on anyway.

Indexing is an important tool but isn't a cure-all. Family history work can only help as much as you use it.

It's through those connections that you’re able to overcome the difficult things and the difficult trials that you’re going through.

I learned that my kids are more interested in family history than I realized! I can make it fun for them and help provide them with a love of family history. We can build stronger family ties together by focusing on our past.

Each one of us is living family history day by day. Today's family living is tomorrow's family history.

I learned that my kids are more interested in family history than I realized! I can make it fun for them and help provide them with a love of family history. We can build stronger family ties together by focusing on our past.

We all feel stronger if we are part of a tapestry. One thread alone is weak, but, woven into something larger, surrounded by other threads, is more difficult to unravel.

A key element… “for both the teller and the listener, is the sharing of positive moments, alongside the ability to bounce back from difficult ones.

The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: develop a strong family narrative.

People are more willing to talk about hard things than we might think. They just need an invitation.

t's amazing to see just what good can come when we're willing to open up and share the hard things that we've gone through.

Every family has happy and hard stories. We need to tell both.