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“Grace O’Malley, Queen of the Sea” by Elizabeth O’Neill-Sheehan

As part of the Family Locket Book Club, we’ll be featuring a children’s book each month. Please share your comments on the books in our Goodreads group or in the comments section! The criteria for the children’s books we share will be: books that are about someone’s ancestors books that give ideas for writing family history stories for children books that teach about genealogy and family history books that inspire young people to learn more about […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer March 4, 2016 Families and Children, Kids Book Club

“Nobody Don’t Love Nobody” – March Book Club Selection

Do you love to read books about real people overcoming real challenges? Are you interested in writing your own family’s story of trials and triumph? Nicole and I share a love of reading good books and a love of writing family stories, so put those together and you have the Family Locket Book Club. Join us in our quest to discover books that amaze, inspire, and uplift. Read the book and share your thoughts in […]

By Diana Elder March 4, 2016 Book Club, Creating and Sharing Family History

How to Learn about the Public Service of your Female Ancestors

Do you know more about your male or female ancestors? Men are definitely easier to research. They owned land and were listed as the heads of household on U.S. Federal Census records before 1850. We’ve probably all traced our surname line back as far as possible – who wouldn’t want to know where their name came from? The soldiers, land owners, prominent business men, and community leaders in our family trees have captured the interest of many of […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer March 2, 2016 Research Tips

The Suitcase: Getting Started One Paper at a Time

Are you the lucky recipient of your family’s genealogy? Do you have a box, a barrel, or, in my instance, a suitcase full of letters, documents, photos, family group sheets, etc? You are probably feeling overwhelmed with either joy or despair. Go ahead and be ecstatic that you inherited priceless stuff. Don’t despair because I’m going to show you how to take care of your papers, one step at a time. When I started […]

By Diana Elder February 29, 2016 Organizing, Research Tips

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