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10 Activities to Make Holiday Family Reunions Fun
Say the word September and people would immediately think of summer ending and children going back to school. For many parents, it means their children leaving the “nest” and attending college. You can expect a lot of changes during September but then, they all return home weeks after for Thanksgiving.<...
5 Game Ideas for a Fun Family Reunion
You've heard it before... a game is just that -- a game. However, games take on a special meaning and become more significant when they form part of special events like family reunions. A family reunion is not an ordinary happening; a family reunion is an event that reinforces family ties and keep...
An attractive and cordial invitation is sure to pique the interest of your family members and make them look forward to attending the family reunion.
There will always be a time when you’ll miss the good old days and feel like seeing old familiar faces again.
Creating the Perfect Invitation for Your Family Reunion
An attractive and cordial invitation is sure to pique the interest of your family members and make them look forward to attending the family reunion. Thus, creating the perfect invitation for the family reunion must be your primary concern if you are tasked to organize the event. Coming up with the perf...
Choosing the Right Type of Family Reunion
Families are an assimilation of a variety of characteristics. Typically, each branch of the family has its own culture and characteristics, so planning a family reunion means finding the greatest common denominators of each branch that make up the overall culture of your family. When planning your famil...
Family Crest 101: Interpreting Symbols on the Family Crest
Family crests (also referred to as coat of arms) vary in designs, images and colors used. Your ancestors most likely spent considerable time and effort in creating that family crest that you can still be proud of today. When you get hold of your family crest, you may wonder what the design is all about....
he world’s largest collection of genealogical records is available through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A family reunion should be more than just reliving memories, eating and talking. A family reunion should also include some fun activities to help everyone bond and create new memories. If it is up to you to plan the fun parts of your family reunion, you may wish to read the rest of this article for tips...
You must be very excited to have found your ancient family crest in the course of your genealogy research.
10 Activities to Make Holiday Family Reunions Fun
Say the word September and people would immediately think of summer ending and children going back to school. For many parents, it means their children leaving the “nest” and attending college. You can expect a lot of changes during September but then, they all return home weeks after for Thanksgiving.<...
All along in this series of blogs I have been making reference to the family tree and genealogy tools I have used at this site.
5 Game Ideas for a Fun Family Reunion
You've heard it before... a game is just that -- a game. However, games take on a special meaning and become more significant when they form part of special events like family reunions. A family reunion is not an ordinary happening; a family reunion is an event that reinforces family ties and keep...
Finding Lodging and Transportation for Your Family Reunion
Typically, the biggest task in planning a family reunion is arranging lodging and transportation. You have to plan your family reunion in a way that will allow all of your family members the opportunity to attend. Wherever you plan to have your family reunion, you will need to be able to provide an affo...
Genealogy Research: Find Your Roots Online Using the Family History Library of Salt Lake City
he world’s largest collection of genealogical records is available through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Family History Library maintains an impressive collection of the names of over two billion deceased people. Owned and run by The Church of Jesus Chris...
Famlu has been working on a tool that will allow MyFamily.com users to import the data that they have exported from their MyFamily.com family website.
Gifts to Proudly Display Your Family Crest
You must be very excited to have found your ancient family crest in the course of your genealogy research. On the other hand, you may be one of those practical people who would rather create your very own modern day family crest using the colors and symbols you think accurately portray your family history....
How to Create a Modern Family Crest
You may have been interested to probe into your own genealogy and most likely, you have come across information about family crests. If you have been doing your genealogy research through the Internet, chances are you have tried looking up your surname in the many online databases with hopes of finding ...
Let Famlu.com be Your Alternative to MyFamily.com
As current and former users of MyFamily.com are winding down their activity due to the website’s imminent closing, a wonderful alternative is available now on Famlu.com, which offers all the same services and more. If you want to continue to congregate with family living in far away places, Famlu.com of...
List of Family Website Services
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Part 1: Standing at the Base of the Family Tree
You have heard the phrase "family tree" many many times, and yet do you think you can clearly answer the simple question of "what is a family tree"? Is it a chart? Is it a flesh and blood something that is hard to describe? Is it a combination of both? I decided to answer this question ...
Part 11: Recalling the Details
So, you have been spending a lot of time answering that original question: "what is a family tree". Some of you may throw your hands in the air and proclaim that a family tree is a headache, and others may say that it is an adventure. This large variation between opinions is actually common because some...
You are never going to be done making a genealogy or family tree...that is a fact, but you can step back and admire that view from time to time. If you have followed the suggestions in our series of blogs you will find yourself admiring the "handy work" quite often. This is particularly true if you used...
Part 2: Shaping the Family Tree
Okay, so in the last blog I left you just starting to climb up into your family tree in order to begin poking around a bit and starting to chart your genealogy. Have you gotten far? What I discovered is that you can only get so far before you have to actually make some plans, and I will warn you i...
In the last blog we talked about the details that emerge at the end of someone's life. No, not the deep dark secrets that they kept (though THAT does make for some interesting research) but the nice details that give you a good idea of WHO that relative was. Just consider discovering that a great uncle ...
Planning a Family Reunion: How to Get There and Where to Stay
Finding the perfect venue is an important step in the family reunion planning process. If you are a one-person committee, you would go about this by soliciting suggestions from family members who are attending the family reunion and perhaps doing a vote. If there is a committee assigned to find the venu...
Plan Family Reunions and Vacations over the Internet
Planning family reunion and vacations is not an easy task, especially if it involves medium to large size families. Planning a family reunion or vacation requires so much energy, lots of patience and a great deal of time. Everyone will agree though, that the end result surpasses all the predicaments and...
Preserve Your Family History and Family Photos with the Help of a Family Website
Family photos carry more importance than just being snapshots stashed in a drawer and never looked at again. All your pictures, including portraits taken by professional photographers, the spontaneous pictures shot during a family trip, and those pictures capturing fun and special moments in the home, shou...
Practical Tips for Researching Your Genealogy
In conducting a research on your genealogy, you are bound to come across some tips from experts and other tricks on how to find and obtain the information you need. While these genealogy tips and tricks may be helpful, there are still a few basic genealogy guidelines that you must observe to improve you...
A Quick Guide to Planning a Fun Family Reunion
Planning a family reunion is actually more about planning to have fun for the entire family. If you are the lucky person assigned to come up with ideas on what to do during your family reunion, you can benefit from the following pointers on how to keep the fun going. 1. Have a Theme <...
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Review of MyGreatBigFamily.com
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A Step by Step Planning Checklist for a Family Reunion
Most people welcome the idea of holding a family reunion. They view reunions as opportunities to be with the other members of the family and relate with them once more. However, planning and organizing a family reunion is not simple nor is it without problems. The success of a family reunion is largely ...
Tips for Organizing a Successful Family Reunion
There will always be a time when you’ll miss the good old days and feel like seeing old familiar faces again. Before you get hit further with nostalgia, gather yourself and arrange for a grand reunion for the family. Which Branch of the Family Tree? I...
Top 7 Family Website Services Reviewed
Ok, so here is our list of the top 7 family website services (ie: our competitors). Yes, we realize its a bit strange for a company to list out its competitors, but we wanted to provide a helpful resource to families looking to implement a private website for their family. We realiz...