Sometimes when we hear the words "Genealogy" or "Family History" we get overwhelmed. What we don't realize is there is a time and a season for each of us to do our "Family History" work. For a young woman, it can mean preserving the present. Maybe voice recording "your growing up story" just before you drop into bed each night, or putting together a simple scrapbook of your first year of marriage, or recording your child's first words. For a man in the middle of his life with work, home, family, etc. It could mean spending his lunch hour indexing a batch of documents, therefore, helping to preserve the past. Or driving by his childhood home after work one evening and videoing the home with his phone as he talks about his memories there. Or for others, maybe you're retired, or the kids have left the nest, or they are all in school and you have a few hours of quiet time, it could mean scanning and documenting all the old photos in those shoe boxes, or learning how to take 8mm film and digitize it. Sometimes it's just setting a goal and carving out a little bit of time in your day to research a family line. Whatever you decide to do, I hope here at "All Things Family History" our Forever Family Trees Blog, you will find helpful ideas, tricks, tips and more to preserve the past and present for those in the future!
To begin, I teach: And on the first day, God created the earth! He divided the land from the sea and formed the firmament above. He created animals and fish and birds and trees and made the world beautiful! Then on the 6th day, He created us! In His own likeness and image. And then…He…
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Sirius Black had a family tree hanging in his home as described in the Order of the Phoenix! Harry Potter has so much family history intertwined in his story! I love it ❤️ Harry Potter dinner menu for book 5, Order of the Phoenix: Tonight, the kids insisted we have Butterbeer again! Delish. (See Family…
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Our final make-a-memory with Harry Potter dinners and family history activities. I have to say that my favorite part has been having my kids cook, help decorate, and participate in the activities, making this a memorable family event. Decorating for dinner with Harry Potter: When my friend did book 7, she had access to her…
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Our second to last Harry Potter book, the Half-blood Prince, is the saddest. In the end, Dumbledore dies. But this is the reason we do family history and connect ourselves to our loved ones. So as family history lovers, what’s our next step? To make sure we’ve got all our family placed in our genealogy tree! Names,…
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Family History wasn’t as prevalent in Harry Potter’s book 4: The Goblet of Fire. But don’t you worry, I figured it out! 😊 My decorations were minimal tonight: As the week wears on, I’m getting a bit less and less artistic. Haha. Next time, and yes there will be a next time, I will do…
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