What a great idea, from Rootsweb Review Gifting Descendants By Carolyn Taby Larkins As gifts to nieces and cousins, I've used the sets of Russian dolls, where each figure opens up to reveal another, until they get too small. I write the name of the child on the bottom of the smallest doll, her mother on the next, her mother's mother on the third, then her grandmother's mother -- ending with the earliest mother for the maternal line I have documented. The larger dolls have room for much more information and I add marriage dates and spouses to them. To make the names visible, I "write" or "carve" the name with a pin and then use permanent ink to finish the job. These are definitely conversation pieces as well as reminders of history. **************************