Importance of storytelling captured in RootsTech general session

Importance of storytelling captured in RootsTech general session

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SALT LAKE CITY — Three engaging storytellers addressed RootsTech attendees Friday as they told their touching success stories.

New Yorkers Josh and Naomi Davis were married in 2007, and Naomi Davis started their family blog, Love Taza, to share the photos and stories of their newlywed life in New York City with loved ones.

Millions of people all over the world have followed the blog.

The blogger spoke about how lucky the world is today, because, thanks to current technology, future generations can have a rich history of stories.

"We have the Internet and the infrastructure to create, archive and share amazing stories with family and friends and people all over the world," Naomi Davis said.

The mother of three blogs about their family life. She said she shares photos that celebrate motherhood and family and good food, and her blog has become an incredible way for their family to document their story and to share it.

"I believe that there aren't many channels left in today's world of media that celebrate motherhood and that celebrate family and that celebrate the good things in life," Naomi Davis said.

She said she's sometimes surprised people want to follow her life as a mother of three.

"So much of what I'm up to is just the everyday," Naomi Davis said. "But … the everyday makes up much of our lives."

Josh Davis said some people might say that they aren't sure they have a story, but he wants to tell those people that they do.

"The exciting part is it's up to you to choose how you want to live and how your story will go," Josh Davis said.

Following the Davis' address, StoryCorps founder David Isay shared with the audience how his company grew from a booth set up in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

Through StoryCorps, family members and friends can record experiences and feelings together and a copy of the recording session is sent to the Library of Congress so their posterity can get to know them through those recordings.

Isay shared several of these recording sessions with the audience, including interactions between a grandfather and his granddaughter, a mother and her son who has Asperger's, and a woman and the man who murdered her son.

The interaction between the woman and her son's murderer was particularly touching as she found forgiveness for him.

"...I feel like more than anything else, we're kind of collecting the wisdom of humanity," Isay said.

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