Want to Involve the Grandkids in Family History? Tip #3

With families gathering for the Holidays, you’ll be able to spend time with the grandkids. Want to get them interested in family history? Make it fun!

Try this.

Show them the front page of a newspaper from the day they were born.

That’s easy – GenealogyBank’s archive goes back 325 years. They’ll be amazed to see what the news was on the day they were born.

Then go through the newspaper page by page and see what the prices were like, and see what was playing at the movies. Get a feel for life on that day.

Then challenge them to find the front page of the newspapers on the days that their ancestors were born.

Why not save each newspaper and make an album of these pages? You could label them with the name of each ancestor and save them in a scrapbook.

Add a photograph of your ancestor – and a copy of their birth or marriage certificate.

If you found one or two front pages each time your grandkids visit, before you know it you’d have a terrific family history album – which they helped to create – that effectively tells your family’s story and the times in which your ancestors lived.

Genealogy Tip: Want to involve the Grandkids in family history? Tip #3: Make it fun!

Create a family history that will make your history come alive for your grandchildren.

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