After her passing, my grandmother passed down a little carved wooden chest to her oldest granddaughter. During COVID, I contacted my cousin who inherited this chest and got the complete story from her. I have, of course, added it as a Memory on FamilySearch. Here is a summary: Grandmother’s father delivered mail by horse and buggy from… Read More A Gift From a Salesman
Every Veteran’s Day I am grateful for FamilySearch because archived in the Memories are photos and information about my father, Herbert Hamilton Frost, who served in WWII. • Because we have his World War II draft registration card we know that he was only 5’6” and weighed a measly 130 pounds when he registered in… Read More Remembering a World War II Veteran
Attention all parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles! Do you have someone getting ready to go BACK TO SCHOOL? Consider arming your students with stories from their own family history! A study done in the mid 1990s by Dr. Marshall Duke and Dr. Robyn Fivush found that “the more children knew about their family’s history, the stronger… Read More Back to School
In the fall of 2020, I felt like the Holy Ghost was nudging me along to finish a project that I had started a few years earlier. I felt an urgency to complete it. I had borrowed some pictures from my mother-in-law of her parents and other family members that were from the Netherlands. I… Read More “Thank You for Remembering Us”
Memorial Day in the United States was originally set aside as a day to commemorate the lives and sacrifices of those who died on both sides in the Civil War. It has since extended to commemorate all Americans who have died while in military service, regardless of which war they fought in. Memorial Day continues… Read More Remembering Loved Ones – Memorial Day
This month the Relief Society and Elders Quorum presidencies on our ward, issued a challenge for each member to share a memory on Family Search, Family Tree. You have probably read articles on this blog, detailing ways save and share memories. The availability of scanners for patron use at the Granite Family History Center, to… Read More Adding A Life Sketch to Family Search – Family Tree
Before you turn the pages of time to a new year, have you recorded your family’s history from this very memorable year? Aren’t we grateful for the journals that have been kept for us in the past? We have been eternally blessed by the people of the Book of Mormon who recorded the experiences of… Read More Before You Turn the Page …
I love the Disney Pixar movie “Coco”. From the first time I saw it I was touched by the concept of the Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos), especially the remembrance altars (Ofendas). Every year since then I have celebrated the Day of the Dead by putting together my own alter with pictures of… Read More Remember Me
When my mom died, I inherited “the box.” You know the one, filled with photos and scrapbooks, slides and negatives, some labeled, and some not. It was a harsh reality to recognize that I had suddenly become the older generation, and that I could identify photos and tell stories that no one else could. Whenever… Read More The Box
I have been adding photos and documents to Family Search, and have been grateful to be able to share my memories with my family members, and to have access to the memories shared by them. I subscribed to receive bi-weekly hints, via email, from the Riverton Family History Center . I received a hint that… Read More Saving Memories in Family Tree