Creative Ways To Honor Your Ancestors

Would you like to see some creative other people are using to honor their ancestors? A panel of 4 family history experts discuss some creative ways your can honor your ancestors under the following topics.

Using the BillionGraves website to capture gravestone images
Gathering and preserving the memories of our living family members
Scrapbooking our family's history
Preserving family traditions

See the TechTips article Personal Publishing: Blog Your Family History and the Capturing Family Histories category for other ideas.

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[Fruitvale Visiting Teaching]

To the woman that spoke.... what does she use to create her recipe book and also the family history book... like is there a special software that she is using?

[FamilySearch]

Response from Fran Jensen: The recipe booklet was created by typing the story into a Word document, adding the ancestors pictures where needed. I just printed the story on white paper and then tore the pages up to make them look a little antique. I did the same for the last few pages that are just recipes. I printed them out and then tore the paper around each of the recipes. I glued all the pieces of the story and recipes to cardstock and added some stickers.

[Pat Champion]

I really enjoyed the ideas and what is being done. That is great information, and very helpful. Thank you all. Each idea can be used to honor ancestors.

[Shelley Murphy]

Love the ideas, thanks for sharing

[Fruitvale Visiting Teaching]

Thank you Fran! Wow, I'm impressed at how old and yet new they looked... I was just sure it must have been a software... very impressive! Your very talented and I hope I can do as well. I'm working on putting a booklet of family history together to give to my granddaughter who is expecting her first child in October so all these great ideas have really helped me. Thank you so much, Kathy Peach

[Fruitvale Visiting Teaching]

Sharing stories are great! I just located a long lost cousin I can't wait to share this with him! We have been working together to share stories from our side of the families....

[Fruitvale Visiting Teaching]

Wow! The story chain would be great for everyone, not just the people in the 1940's... Wow... I am researching my family tree and one of the most special thing I have ever found was a story about my grandfathers sister... I never had the chance to hear and find stories so this would be great to have a page or something for each year... I'll be checking this out for sure!

[Fruitvale Visiting Teaching]

I finally figured out how to ask questions.... From the first man that spoke...can you use Billon Graves on the internet? Like can you find graves that people have located?