Family History Month Challenge

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 19? Here it is: Do something crafty with all that research. Get it out of the books and off the computer and create something you can hang on a wall. If you google family history art, or family tree gifts, you will see tons of ideas for creating something with your family tree. And Pinterest is sure to be full of great suggestions.  Pick something, and be sure to share it with us when you’re finished!

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 18? Here it is: Document your family heirlooms. Many of us have anything from trinkets to furniture that have been passed down to us, whether from our own parents or from our second great grandparents. Have you taken the time write up what it is, who it is from, why it is important, and snap some pictures?

Along those same lines, do you have them insured? How devastated would you be if something happened to it and you didn’t have anything left to show the family?

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 17? Here it is: For you tech savvy folks, make a geneameme to share with the world. Got a favorite genealogy faux pas? Make it funny. Got a tip? create a memorable meme to illustrate it. Have fun-we all know the dark, silly side of what we love so much.

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 16? Here it is: Update your current people records. We get so caught up with finding our ancestors we forget about the family happenings all around us. Have you got all the recent births, deaths, and marriages written down somewhere? Do it! Make some calls; family historians have to document that which will be history later, too.

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 15? Here it is: Help someone else with one of their research. A fun way to do this right now is to offer to help someone via the Global Family Reunion’s Connect for the Cure. A lot of people want to know more about their ancestry, and right now there are prizes involved 🙂

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 14? Here it is: Get a family photo taken. It is easy to forget to have this done, but think about how much you treasure those family photos you find in your research.  Make sure you write on the back or digitally tag everyone so someone can identify everyone later.

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 13? Here it is: Honor the veterans in your family. Make sure those who are gone have clean headstones areas and a flag to mark them. If you’re on a collaborative site, be sure to add them to any groups and put notations on their profile to honor their service. 

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 12? Here it is: Email that person who you noticed posted a shared family tree on the internet. Introduce yourself, ask them how they got started in genealogy, find out more about their leg of the family, and tell them about yours. Sharing in the research opens so many doors.

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 11? Here it is: Take a road trip to see how many of the homes your ancestors lived in are still standing. Take pictures. They might not be up there forever. This can be especially fun if you have old photos of these same places to compare.  If you feel really brave, go knock on the door, introduce yourself and ask to see how it looks inside now.

October is Family History Month so for fun we’re giving a challenge every day of the month relating to ways you can celebrate your family, your lineage and your heritage!

Ready for Day 10? Here it is: Have a big family Sunday supper like was so common so many years ago. This might seem like such a trivial thing, but just sharing a meal together can foster discussion that can give you insight into your history, plus it’s fun. Potluck it to make it easy for everyone to participate. Make it Saturday to avoid needing to be home early. Play some games. Make it fun!