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November 29, 2020

10 Questions Everyone Should Ask Their Grandparents

Making good conversation with grandparents can sometimes be difficult, and as the end of the year looms, you may find yourself sharing Christmas with older relatives who you don’t routinely speak to. Home care workers or nursing support can drastically improve a senior’s quality of life, but on the other hand, family members may find themselves missing out on those...

Families/Memories
October 25, 2020

Reviewing Your Memories

Recently I had an interesting experience with several family members (names changed in this article) that reminded me of the importance of reviewing family history memories from time to time. As I ate lunch with my daughter Anna one day, she told me that she had found an old email from my brother Max about my parents. She began relating...

Families/FamilySearch/Memories
October 25, 2020

The Sacrifices of Our Fathers

Note: This article by Elaine Hardman was previously published on granitefhc.com and is used with the author’s permission. When I see the American flag, my thoughts turn to my parents, both of whom grew up in the Great Depression and also served in World War II. My father served in the Navy on an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific,...

Memories
September 13, 2020

How Do Genealogically Significant Records Get Preserved? Part One

Note: This article by James Tanner was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Let’s suppose that your great-grandfather wrote a journal during his lifetime and you are the member of the family that ends up with the journal. You might have a couple of concerns: how do you preserve the document...

Memories/Research
August 30, 2020

A Mayflower Story

This coming November marks the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower ship. There are many noteworthy stories of Mayflower passengers and history; a notable recounting is on the Mayflower Story website. I have several friends who are direct descendants of William Brewster, a passenger who became the leader of the Plymouth Colony. However, my Mayflower ancestors, John Howland and...

Memories/Research/Stories
August 10, 2020

“Remember Me…”

On August 1st, as part of our anniversary, my wife and I went and visited the This is the Place monument in Salt Lake City. Although the walkout to the monument was closed, we went to the adjacent Heritage Village and saw the various replicas of houses and stores that were, at one point, built by many of the early...

Families/Memories/Records/Uncategorized
July 12, 2020

Inviting Others to Share

Editor’s Note: This article by David Castleton was originally published in on GraniteFHC.com and is used with the author’s permission. Last year I attended a class at the Sandy Granite Family History Center regarding using social media to assist with family history. The instructor shared a story about a woman whose mother died when she was quite young. She didn’t...

Memories/Social Media
June 28, 2020

Fitting Family History into Your Life

Question: How do you squeeze a huge object (family history) into a small box (your free time to work on it)? Answer: In small pieces. As explained in the 15 Minutes page of The Family History Guide, you can accomplish some amazing things with your family history by approaching it in segments of 15 minutes or more. In the “Fitting...

General/Learning/Memories
June 28, 2020

How Social Media and Family History Brought a Family Together

It is quite amazing to think about how far we have come with technology. Since the creation of the Internet, there have been many changes in the way we shop, research, communicate, and even in how we do family history. More particularly, social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, have made it easier to write and share content...

Memories/Social Media/Technology
June 21, 2020

A Gift from My Dad

It’s early on a Saturday morning in Southern California, in the late 1960’s. The aroma of fresh waffles is already starting to fill the house as I peek into the kitchen. My brother’s baseball card collection covers  about half the table (and Mom will make him clean it up before breakfast). I can already guess where Dad is: he’s probably...

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