… To Grandmother’s house we go.”  This song paints a peaceful sleigh ride picture of the journey home.  It’s not always so, however.  Sometimes it’s a trial just getting home for Christmas! One year I had been living in Utah working on my Master’s Degree at Brigham Young University.  Since Bruce was still working and [...]

Have you been waiting to write your family story until you’re done with the research or until you can write it ALL up, the full story?  If you wait that story may NEVER get written!  It’s kind of like the elephant in the room that NEVER disappears. I have a solution for you!  Start by [...]

Do you have a camera chip full of photos from the year?  I do.  Why not turn them into a photo album, OR create a DVD slideshow to be viewed on the television, OR file them on your desktop/laptop and set your screensaver to scroll through them? I have my desktop screensaver set to scroll [...]

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember a television show called, “This Is Your Life.”  It featured a different person each week and the things they had done.  Why not make a book of life for our loved ones?  When my children ranged from about eight to fourteen I decided to make them two things for [...]

A granddaughter, Amanda, recently phoned me for information about her grandfather’s Bankhead family tree.  She is age nine and her school teacher gave the class an assignment to complete over the Thanksgiving break.  She was asked to find out if there were any “Indians” in the family tree or discover any stories about her ancestors. [...]

Wishing you could just hire someone to interview a family member and create a documentary video about their life?  You can!  The Historiologie company aims to do just that!  The Historiologie team includes founder Jenner Brown, McKinley Brown, Marcy Brown, and Elizabeth Thomas.  Jenner Brown has written, edited, and co-produced several national TV programs.  You [...]

Would you like to make Christmas less commercial, and more meaningful this year?  How about including some family history items in your gift list.  You probably don’t have time to make a family quilt or some other big project, but there are some things you can give or do to make this year a Family [...]

Have you researched your family’s history and want to share it with others?  You should!   Are you wondering how to do it, how to recreate the family experience in a way others will want to read it? One person who has mastered this challenge is Leslie Albrecht Huber.  In her work, The Journey Takers, Huber [...]

If all you have about an ancestor are his vital statistics, his name, birth, marriage, and death, you only have a skeleton and skeletons are not much fun to look at.  In fact, they’re kind of scary.   If you only have the bare bones about your ancestor, that’s kind of scary, too, because how do [...]

Would you like to have access to over 20,000 books, 6,000 of them are family histories?  How about published abstracts of cemeteries, court records, and deeds? Does that sound like a dream?  Dream on! I’m not talking about Google Books to read online or FamilySearch books on microfilm. I’m talking about having a book in [...]