1. Anytime Activities
2. Plan-Ahead Activities
3. Making Family History
4. Documenting the Past
5. Social Media Activities
6. Service Activities
7. Activities for Research
8. Latter-day Saint Activities
9. Five-Minute Ideas for Latter-day Saints
10. 5-Minute Ideas for Everyone
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With a bit of planning and a list of ideas, family history activities can become part of your everyday lives and unite your family in remarkable ways. Try some of the activities described on this page and see how your past and present can come together. As you do, you can strengthen family relationships, build your family tree, and make fun family memories. See also this list of Five Minute Family History Activities for everyone. For more ideas, explore Resources for Parents.
Family Activities
5. Social Media Activities
5. Social Media Activities
Overview: Social media can bring a family together in ways never thought of in years past. It is an excellent tool for finding family members and making connections, keeping in touch, sharing items such as photos, printed materials, and videos, teaming up for research, and much more. See how these ideas can help you go digital!Activities marked by an asterisk (*) take little or no prep time.
F5-02: PinterestCreate a family Pinterest board to share and make new discoveries. Consider adding a Pinterest board for each family line.
*F5-03: Family HashtagEstablish your own family hashtag for use with social media, with helpful tips from this article.
F5-04: Create a Facebook Family History PageFollow the steps in this FamilySearch blog post to create your own Facebook page for family history.
See Project 7, Goal 3 in The Family History Guide for more information about using social media in family history.
F5-05: Use Instagram for Family HistoryTry four tips for using Instagram for family history research found in this Rootstech article. Learn more in Project 7, Goal 3 for FamilySearch, or Project 6 Goal 3 in Ancestry, MyHeritage, or Findmypast. Also check out this FamilySearch blog post.
F5-06: Use Twitter for Family HistoryFollow organizations and individuals to hear about genealogy news and new records, and to search family hashtags. Learn more on this Family Tree blog post and on this FamilySearch blog post.