FAMILY HISTORY MONTH

Trace your family tree.

Use the many resources online to help you get started.

Create a family cookbook.

Collect recipes from relatives. Ask them to share a story about the recipe (if there is one), how it got started, and the tradition behind it… Put them together and make a little book to give to family members or even put it online. If you make a book, add pictures of the ones who handed in the recipe, and if possible, the creator of the recipe.

Record family stories.

Interview as many people as possible audiotape, videotape or journal the accounts. Put these together and share them.

Take a drive by old places.

Revisit old places you, your parents, and your grandparents have lived. Places that meant something to the family. Even go to the cemetery and look at family plots.

Make a scrapbook.

Get together as many family pictures as possible and make a scrapbook. With all of the resources today, you can give copies to everyone. CD's can also be made.

Make family heritage gifts.

Make family heritage gifts by using old pictures and frames, quilts, tea sets, etc... Take time to make gifts for people that can become a tradition for your family to make and give.

Design a family crest.

Take family pictures.

Be sure to document them so that in time to come others will know the story behind the photo.