Barbara, This is an excellent beginning! I like the addition of relevant articles and tidbits of history. The newspaper articles are such a wonderful bit of personal information. Keep it up, this is a treasure you are assembling. Smiles, Anna ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:30 PM Subject: [FOLKS] Re: Preserving History > Hi Kim and all, > Your thought about preserving your family history has been a recurrent > concern for me. Since becoming interested in genealogy, I have amassed a fair amount > of information and have been wondering how to get my children interested in > keeping at it after I am gone and following up on lines that are not finished. > Realizing I have to work with what I've got and not having Vee's gift of > writing, I decided to make a Heritage Scrapbook. That does not seem as daunting as > writing a whole book. Today I finished the first page. Hurray (BIG GRIN) On > it is a picture of me, age two, with the title, HERITAGE ALBUM of Barbara > Louise Stratiff. I then wrote three short paragraphs of general information about > ancestors and dedicated it to "those relatives who may be curious about the > people who came before them." > At least it is a start. > Where I have pictures I will include them, along with some newspaper articles > I have found. But, > since I do not have pictures of any ancestors in some of my lines I will need > to write short biographies of those people for whom I have found a few facts. > The more a get into it the more excited I am about them. For instance I > have copies of some advertisements found in an 1831 newspaper concerning a tavern > owned by my third great grandfather. Google.com gave me some articles about > taverns, bits of which I will include in the piece I will write about him. I > will find a picture of a bicycle to add to the page about my second great > grandfather who owned a bicycle shop. My grandfather was an undertaker. I' m not > sure how I will illustrate his page (another grin). I will include an ancestry > chart so the lines can be followed. > Well, you get the idea. Since I am such a procrastinator I needed to tell > someone what I am doing so that I will be prodded to keep going. Thanks for l > istening. > Barbara Moll > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >