Everyone's life has a little of both. Begin keeping a diary. Write at least two paragraphs every day for the next week or two. At the end, go back and re-read what you wrote. In the process, Taylor documents his grandfather's colorful life and finds that he really did help tame the Wild West, and even rode with Pancho Villa.
Experts tell how to write, publish and share a family history.
Traditionally, someone in the society keeps in his memory the story of the family. In Africa, this person was known as a griot. Even today, you can still meet griots in Africa who can recite generations upon generations of family history. Hopefully, you've been successful enough at your family history detective work to at least know a bit about your great-grandparents. Surely someone in your family will want to know what you've discovered.