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Soul Assets is the place for individuals and families to share skills in the Family Knowledge Process.We invite you to build a community aimed at honouring, organising and keeping a knowing family for future relatives to know and cherish.

Common Hobbies over family generations
It’s magic when family hobbies span generations – it gives you a sense of belonging. In this article I’ll share a mini project idea that you can use with the Family Knowledge Process to present and honour family interests for generations to come. A majority of families can find interests spanning […]

Family Hobbies Across Generations

1950s 35mm slide film
My second post on Grampa’s slides months after my first post; yes I did say that dealing with 35mm slides takes time.   A lot has happened since May 2016 but I made time last week to scan the first box of Grampa’s 35mm slide collection. Using the 5 step […]

Grampa’s 1950s Time Capsule #2

Sorting by printrun keeps family events grouped by film batch and time
As I’ve aged I’ve discovered my mind delivers memories like a poker dealer, shuffling them around into different seasons and years. So when it comes to sorting out your own family photos I’ve found, if the photos not dated, I can shuffle the events better than any poker dealer on […]

Sort Photos by Print Run: Turn Them Over

Keeping family knowledge of family cars
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Your First Car, Remember?

Family Letters and Documents
Consider the time taken to write and post a letter; you’re keeping family knowledge when you group and scan letters.     Writing a letter can take 15 minutes or longer. If your letters dated and addressed then you have a  GPS time capsule in your hands. Look, I understand the […]

How to KEEP Letters Sent From Friends and Family

Remember When PCs Were Called Stand-alone?
Guess what PCs and laptops can still be stand-alone.   Here are my family knowledge process tips for keeping your memories on digital technology, they are: Buy two portable hard drives of at least One terabyte each to keep scanned images of your mementos – think of the drives as […]

Remember When PCs Were Called Stand-Alone?

Digital Dreaming and using a portable hard drive to KEEP your memories.
I’ve had this problem for a year – I know the power of a classification process is priceless – but how do I show you? So here is my fun way of showing you why I’m passionate about giving you a family knowledge process to support you in honoring your […]

It’s Raining Memories

Pinterest How to
If you’ve watched TV’s Antiques Roadshow, you’ll understand why I’ve included a separate category called Prized Possessions for the Family Knowledge Process.   In this article I’m sharing another quick method of saving your prized possessions knowledge using Pinterest. The benefits of using the Pinterest method and the Family Knowledge Process […]

How to Use Pinterest to KEEP Family Stories About Prized Possessions

Family Groups
The reason we came up with classifications systems was to give humanity easy ways to learn and pass on important knowledge.   I think knowledge of family events is by far the most enriching part of anyone’s education journey. And in a world of grouping and classification systems I found […]

Your Family Group and Journal Event Infographic

Author Video for Digital Dreaming
Will you—a beneficiary of the digital era—pass down a tidal wave of fragmented and soulless keepsakes to the next generation?      If you’re serious about knowing your family and you want to discover how to keep family stories, then Digital Dreaming is the book for you. Inside this book […]

Rodney Black’s Video Appearance For Digital Dreaming

Digital Dreaming on Pinterest
You’ve gotta grab the reader’s attention with interesting headlines. Blogging advice 101.   I’m sorry I’m new to the world of blogging, but I couldn’t help myself with this headline. My year nine photography teacher commented on nice legs by saying “they had a great set of pins”. I think […]

What a Great Set of Pins!

HOME
“You took me to see this house at night, I couldn’t see a damn thing.” Her eyes held a glint of contempt and laughter.   “Yeah I know I know, but I was excited about a house being for sale in my favorite street.” The tone of his reply asked […]

Journal Event Code: HOME

Family Knowledge Transfer
When I think of succession planning for families what comes to mind is the movie: Little Fockers, starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. A Google search on “family succession planning” brought up “family business succession planning”. Oh for Pete’s sake! That’s not what I was after at all. When […]

Oh for Pete’s Sake, or oh for Family Keepsake

Family Mementos, photos, documents, and prized possessions. Over 3000 items ready to scanned.
Do you work in retail? Or maybe you’re a farmer or a nurse. Jobs that serve others have one important task that needs to be performed regularly, a good old fashioned stocktake. My first job was a cadet accountant at the State Railways of N.S.W and I remember the one task […]

Above all else, Take Stock

Family Typewriter
What Is Your Life Purpose? Diane Ray from Hay House Radio interviews Rodney Black about his book Digital Dreaming a step-by-step guide on how to honour and organise your family knowledge. “R.L. Black  gives us a really useful guide to keeping family mementos, pictures and video organized in his book Digital […]

Bright New Voices and Digital Dreaming

WW1 Family Keepsake
Lest we forget Marking the 97th anniversary of the First World War in 1918. A war that changed families and communities with the crippling and loss of lives. If you’ve read Digital Dreaming you’ll understand the  honouring of the keepsakes handed down as these mementos near the 100th year being […]

Remembrance Day 2015

When it works treasure it
Bazinga! You’ve Gotta Love a Good Classification System I’ve created a new board on Pinterest and this education pin gives you the information on how to make your own Family Group Code. When this code is used in partnership with the six principles of outlined in Digital Dreaming you’ll be able […]

Grouping Systems – Love’m

Internal and External Documents
With only six months to live Dad started jotting on the backs of photos, tagging notes to articles he’d published and putting prized paper keepsakes in envelopes with a note on the front. He didn’t have a family classification scheme and for months after his death I’d come across keepsake […]

Envelopes, Parents, Notes and Document Keepsakes