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