Good article on ethical wills: Legacy letters leave lasting impressions

Posted by Susan Turnbull May 9, 2010 in Blog

Today’s Daytona Beach News-Journal had a good column on ethical wills and names creators of them as diverse as President Obama, Mary McLeod Bethune and reality TV star Kate Gosselin. Three lines especially stood out for me:

• “Legacy letters are recognized as much for their benefit to the writer as the for intended reader.”  So true, in my experience.
• This great quote from a writer, “If you don’t tell your own story, nobody else will.”
• And finally, a terrific question to ask yourself or someone else, “If you had an ancestor you wanted to know more about, what would you ask them?”