Generational Gifts

The Vistage Alumni group accepted my topic for our last meeting (5/21/2026).  We each described out family tree from Great Grandparents through Grandchildren.  A way to get to know each other better (even though we have been meeting monthly since 2004.  Just shows you can "know" someone for 22 years and still "not know" them.  

The exercise motivated me to update the obsolete cell phone contact I had with my oldest cousin K,W,  What a wonderful 1 hour call to get any stories about our common grandfather, and any family lore about our great grandfather. It amazed me how little I know anything about my 8 great grandparents.  So trying to document what values,traits, vitures, vices, behaviors, traditions etc. have been passed down to me and what am I trying to pass down to my grandchildren was not easy.   

Investigating the tools - Ancestry.com, Familysearch.org, Gramps Software was fun and reintroduced me to the geneology "rabbit hole",  A,S, my genelogy friend also provided great advice and council during this exercise.  I even loaded this blogging website into Copilot and asked for advice about what values it could predict I had "inherited" and/or would be passing down.  Then using that chat along with Gemini Pro developed two infographics for Generational Transfer and Wisner Family Legacy Statement.

Wisner Family Family Legacy Statement final thought on the slide - "What starts with one person can change generations.  What is passed down does not have to be perfected - it has to be lived.  And through love, faith and intention - we continue the story."