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Writing Your Personal Family History Outline Chapters 7-12

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This outline is from page one: Writing Your Personal Family History and Chapters 1-6 can be found on the previous page.

Chapter Seven: Employment and Leisure
  1. Tell about your day job. Have you moved up the ranks? Do you still have passion for your work?
  2. What do you enjoy the most? The least?
  3. Do you have plans for retirement? Or are retired?
  4. What are your favorite hobbies and pastimes?
  5. What is your favorite book and why?
  6. What is your favorite movie and why?
  7. Have you traveled abroad?
  8. If you had a free day to spend on yourself what would you do?
Chapter Eight: Church Service
  1. What was your first calling?
  2. Subsequent callings?
  3. Did you serve a mission?
    1. Who did you teach?
    2. Who did you serve with?
    3. Who was your mission president and his wife?
    4. What were your most spiritual experiences?
    5. What was your hardest trial?
    6. Write about the people, culture and customs of the area you served in.
    7. Write your testimony about missionary work.
  4. How was your testimony at 25?
  5. Have you witnessed miracles?
  6. When did you receive your testimony of the Church?
  7. When did you first read the Book of Mormon?
  8. Have you seen prophecy fulfilled?
  9. Write down the spiritual experiences you want your family to know about.
Chapter Nine: Community Service
  1. Did you participate in PTA, VPO, Booster club or other community service?
  2. Have you ever run for a government office?
  3. Did you serve in the military, air force, etc.?
  4. What is your view on politics including Iraq, clod war, Viet Nam, WWII?
Chapter Ten: Grandchildren
  1. Write about your first grandchild. Did you attend the birth?
  2. Tell about him/her: healthy, happy, appearance, talents. (Write about each grandchild.)
  3. What do you do to be a good grandmother/grandfather?
  4. How is it different than being a mom/dad?
Chapter Eleven: Memories of Significant Events (Write about any of the following.)
  1. The depression, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam.
  2. The release of POW’s. Pueblo incident, Cuban Missile Crisis.
  3. The assassination of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King.
  4. Do you remember the National Guard being called in to integrate schools in the south?
  5. Do you remember the first man in space, first man on the moon, Apollo 13, Challenger?
  6. The Berlin Wall coming down, Hostages in Iran.
  7. Visits to significant historical church sights.
  8. Visits to other significant history sights.
  9. Fairs, theaters, amusement parks, Disneyland, Disneyworld, or other significant locations.
  10. What did you do about food storage and emergency preparedness?
  11. 9/11.
  12. The loss of your parents and/or other relatives.
Chapter Twelve: Testimony
  1. Summarize your patriarchal blessing.
  2. Write about other blessings you have received, given, or witnessed.
  3. Write your testimony.
  4. What do you want your family to know and remember about you?
  5. When you meet the Savior on the other side, what do you hope He will say?
See page 2 for Family History Outline Chapters 1-6

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