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Favorite Reads of the Week: 27 February 2016

Relative Race I’m eager to find out if the new genealogy reality show, Relative Race, premiering tomorrow, Sunday at 6pm MT, can measure up to The Amazing Race (CBS). Relative Race will be on BYUtv which is free to watch online. Grandma’s Makeup I want to highlight a unique post from the blogosphere this week at Bustle.com about interviewing your Grandma by asking her to do your makeup. The author said, “My grandma told me that her first experiences with mascara involved a “block” […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer February 27, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

Make Your Family History Book Kid-Friendly

Do you have a compiled genealogy book with numbers assigned to each individual? What do those numbers mean and how can you trace your family with them? If you have wondered how to navigate the long blocks of numbered text in these books, you’re not alone. Last September, my friend Gina and I were chatting about family history when she showed me a genealogy book compiled by one of her husband’s relatives. She let me borrow it. As I flipped through it, I realized how daunting […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer February 26, 2016 Crafts and Projects, Creating and Sharing Family History, Families and Children, Sharing Stories

Honor your Heritage with Heirlooms

Do you have a family heirloom sitting around gathering dust? Curious about the ancestor who owned it? Are you trying to find some ways to interest your teen in family history? Introduce them to this month’s Instagram challenge at makefamilyhistory.org and watch the magic begin. Teens love social media. Combine that with a fascinating family heirloom and you’ve got them hooked. I don’t have any teens left at home, but I am helping a […]

By Diana Elder February 24, 2016 Creating and Sharing Family History

Finding Franklin in a Time Machine Activity

Today, we have a guest post by one of our readers, Lindsey Crouch. Lindsey found our post about teaching youth to use census records, then adapted it for a younger age group. She’s here to share her documents and lesson plan so anyone can recreate the activity to teach children about census records. Enjoy! -Nicole —- Hi, I’m Lindsey I’m originally from Idaho and graduated from Utah State in social work. I’m a life-long learner and a mom […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer February 22, 2016 Activities, Creating and Sharing Family History, Families and Children, LDS Family History

Family History is for Everyone

According to D. Joshua Taylor at the Green Valley (AZ) Genealogical Society seminar yesterday, the stereotypical genealogist is a 65 year old white female. He learned this when he dedicated a separate web browser for his genealogy google searches only. Google built a profile based on these searches to target him for advertisements. He found out from friends at google that google thought he was a 65 year old white female. We got a […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer February 21, 2016 Family History is for Everyone Spotlights

Favorite Reads of the Week: 20 February 2016

Today I’m sharing my favorite blog posts and genealogy news from around the web. I am especially fascinated by the Wall Street Journal piece about growing heirloom variety flowers – the same varieties your ancestors may have grown. I looked at some heirloom flower seed packets at our local nursery today, but decided I needed to scour my family stories for mentions of plants before I buy any. Also, I’m looking forward to the History Channel’s remake of the mini-series “Roots,” based on […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer February 20, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

Source Citations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Updated 18 January 2024 Have you ever read a family history with an interesting fact, like “Great Grandma was a full-blooded Cherokee”? You’re excited to read more and see some proof, but there is nothing: no source citations or documentation of any kind. You’re left in the dark, wondering how much to believe in that history. My great-grandmother, Eliza Ann Isenhour, supposedly had Cherokee heritage. Unfortunately, the family history stating this fact neglected to state […]

By Diana Elder February 19, 2016 Accreditation, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Research Tips

Ancestor Coloring Page

Need a way to share family stories with your kids more often? How about coloring pages? Every so often, we create a coloring page about one of our grandparents. While my son was coloring one of his Great Grandpa Elder today, he remembered that Great Grandpa passed away last year. He talked about missing him and wondered what he looked like when he was younger. As he thought about it, he colored this picture of Grandpa in the army. We […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer February 18, 2016 Crafts and Projects, Creating and Sharing Family History, Families and Children, Sharing Stories

Recreate an Ancestor Photo

Do you look like one of your grandparents? Do you have one of their dresses or coats? Then you might have fun doing this photo challenge from www.makefamilyhistory.org : recreate an ancestor photo. My daughter Alice now has my pink baby sweater knitted by my Grandma. I showed her a picture of me wearing the sweater and she instantly wanted to put it on. We pulled a mini Christmas tree out of storage and… done! We recreated […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer February 16, 2016 Creating and Sharing Family History, Families and Children

Related to a U.S. President?

In honor of Presidents Day today, I thought I would pose the question – are you related to one of the presidents of the United States? I found out I was related to Dwight D. Eisenhower when I first started researching my Grandpa Shults’ side 14 years ago. My 3rd great grandmother, Eliza Ann Isenhour, was his fourth cousin. As you can see, the spelling of the last name morphed over the years. Doris Kearns […]