My oldest daughter loves to take photos and recently caught the blogging bug. The result is a beautiful blog at BlogPhotos. A recent article she wrote is about capturing your family history. I thought you’d like to read it, so am printing it here for you.
Do you know your family history? Will your Grandkids know yours?
There are many ways to preserve the past for future generations, for me and my family it will be mostly a story told thru photos. I use my photos to make scrapbooks that tell our family’s story. Photos help you remember more details when you are trying to write a family history and add more interest. My Grandkids will be able to look thru our albums and see where we lived, where we vacationed, things we did, etc.
As well as creating family albums of me and my children, I have created a family history album with as much information as I could find about our family heritage. Creating a family book is sometimes hard to do if you have broken family trees to deal with, I just used as much information as I could with the people that I could and didn’t worry about the rest. I didn’t want to get too overwhelmed so I just went back to when our families immigrated (on my side to Canada, and on my husband’s to the US)
I was able to find some information about my family on some of the genealogy sites, there are some free ones like familysearch and there are ones like one great family and ancestry.com that charge a fee but they offer more on their site. On ancestry.com I have found copies of actual documents about my family such as my great-grandfather’s military enlistment papers. Searching your family history is a time consuming project but can also be a lot of fun. The internet has made research so much easier and there are so many sites that are all about creating your family tree. There are also many books available, such as this one
Writing your own story will make it easier on your future generations when they want to know about their great-great grandparents.
Enjoy your family, the living most of all, but be proud of where you come from, brokenness and all. And remember that a picture is worth a thousand words but a family history is best if you can create it with a mix of photos, stories and documents.
Bridget
Bridget has some beautiful photos and slideshows on her site, so be sure and check it out. And if you’re in the Nashville area, she sells the framed photographs as well.
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