HI: I will be attending two family reunions this summer. I'm the family historian and have traced all 4 sides of my family. I'd like to put my information in a format that will interest more of my relatives, who mostly are more interested in socializing than finding out who their ancestors were. Does anyone have methods of packaging their genealogy that have captured the interest of the younger family members? Thanks for all help. KBerry See my Berry/Long/Brown genealogy Web site: <A HREF="http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/r/Karin-D-Berry/index.html?Welcome=1045932827">Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: Moses Berry: A Kentucky Soldier's Journey to Freedom</A> Kdberr1@aol.com

At Christmas this past year, as I packed up a box to send to the grandkids (age 7,8,9) half a continent away, I threw in a printed out "book" from PAF complete with photo's and family stories of our family history in a binder. I meant to put a note on it telling "the other granma" to put it away until the kids were old enough to care about it. I forgot the note. Later Christmas night, the phone rang. It was the oldest, Katie, wanted to talk to her granpa (my husband). I half-way listened to his side of the conversation...and then things went quiet. There were tears in his eyes. He noticed my look and gave the a "thumbs up" which meant.. "don't worry... it's okay" I couldn't wait for the conversation to end. He told me that Katie had found the binder, left in the bottom of the box, and had spent the whole afternoon curled up on the sofa reading it... new toys and clothes forgotten. She had told her Granpa. "now I know who I am" She asked question after question... She wanted to take it to school for show and tell... She was so excited to have her "history" in her hands. You just never know how the kids are going to react to it. In this case, it was a wonderful Christmas gift for Katie, and for my husband. bev bev <brencher@earthlink.net>