Living Family History – Cookbooks

No Family Journals? Look for Recipes and make a Family Cookbook Not everyone is lucky enough to have journals written by their ancestors. So, I encourage you to look around and find family history objects. You may already have these in your own home. Perhaps you’ll find hand written letters, old fashioned toys or gardening tools. Research what you find. The easiest question I pose is: Who did it belong too? Then I try to…

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Living Family History -Memory Quilts

Living family history hobbies such as photograghy, scrapbooking, journaling, and memory quilt making go hand in hand with genealogy. We are making the heirlooms that future family historians will find and extract the details of our lives from. It will be much more difficult for our descendants to learn about us without these heirlooms. I have been privileged to make several memory quilts from t-shirts that really capture the essence of the history of individuals.…

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What Happens in High School (and College) Stays in the Yearbook

I am wearing my detective hat and I am hunting for clues. I am hoping to find out how my great-grandparents met. In 1920, Weightman Edwards lived in Glen Ridge, New Jersey and Florence Alberta Pillow Lived in Richmond, Virginia. Weightman graduated from Cornell University in 1914 and Florence graduated from Charlotte High School (Charlotte, North Carolina) in 1915. What clues did I find? Annuals from Cornell revealed that Weightman studied to be a mechanical…

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