5 Tips for Taking Great Photos For Family History Records
Posted May 8, 2008
Digital cameras are all over the place these days and it is so easy to take tons of pictures. Digital cameras let you see the picture you took seconds after it was taken. You can then determine if the picture is a “keeper” or not. But how do you determine the “keepers” and how do [...]
Preserving Your Library of Learning
Posted Feb 25, 2008
There are many ways to leave a legacy. One way is to leave behind a library of good books. The only problem with this is that the library you leave behind with physical books will have a limited reach depending on the family members who end up with your books. After a short amount of [...]
Can Letters Make a Difference?
Posted Feb 18, 2008
As the United States celebrates President’s Day, one might reflect on the physical treasures and glimpses into their lives that they have left us. From the viewpoint of a family historian, the founding families of the United States left behind absolute treasures. Journals, drawings, paintings, collections, gardens, estates, and records offer opportunities to come to [...]
Documenting Family Travels
Posted Jan 30, 2008
Well Traveled – There are many ways to open the mind, broaden experience, and deepen feelings. One path to doing so is through traveling. Experiencing new places, ideas, foods, sites, smells, and cultures seems to have a profound effect upon us. Not only the travel we take, but the places and reasons for visiting those [...]
How to Free up 30 Minutes of Time for Family History
Posted Nov 13, 2007
Ever feel like you’d like to spend more time on genealogy but just don’t have the time? You’ve probably heard time and time again that we can’t get more time. There’s only 24 hours in a day. It’s how we manage those 24 hours that gets us into trouble. Below are a number of ideas [...]
Manage Your Life Story and Pictures
Posted Oct 29, 2007
Many free tools exist to help families organize and share pictures online. Some tools organize family pictures through a family tree, others provide a place to store and share pictures in folders, and some resources let you organize pictures by location. Organize Histories and Pictures on a Time Line One available option at OurStory.com lets [...]
Map your Family History – Literally
Posted Oct 27, 2007
Did your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, or Africa? Have they always lived in New Zealand, the United States, or South America? Many families have roots that span various different countries. Wouldn’t it be neat to have a map that showed where your different family lines came from and how they converge to be where [...]
How to Manage Family Heirlooms
Posted Oct 26, 2007
“I get the piano when you’re gone!” or “I have dibs on your jewelry box.” Sound familiar? As families age, inevitably, the question arises about who should receive which keepsakes and heirlooms. Discussions about heirlooms or family keepsakes are avoided in some families because it reminds them that we’re mortal and will die (not a [...]
Family Heirloom and Keepsake Tracker
Posted Oct 24, 2007
Heirloom sounds like such a formal word, but many of us have and pass on a variety of heirlooms and family keepsakes in our individual families. We may not think of our items as “heirlooms” but there are plenty of keepsakes and knick-knacks that are important to us. They’re the things that you just don’t [...]
Creating an Official Family Association
Posted Oct 5, 2007
As we grow up, it’s inevitable that families drift apart after just a few generations. It’s quite understandable because new families are created as the family tree expands, and it’s hard to get together with the distant relatives.
However, one of the problems as the family tree expands is that Aunt Susie has family history information and keepsakes that Cousin Albert has never seen but would probably like to see.
