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Tips, tricks, and ideas about recording the past so future generations can understand their family history. Learn about great preservation methods, web links, and how to have fun creating your family’s history.

Recording Family Christmas Traditions

Family History, MyCanvas Products By admin December 22, 2015 Tags: Christmas, family history, heirlooms, recording, traditions No Comments

We each celebrate Christmas in unique ways. Whether you are a newlywed preparing your first Christmas, a first-time parent recording baby’s first Christmas, or an empty-nester teaching traditions to your grandbabies, Christmas traditions deserve to be recorded. Consider these 5 fun ways…

Cooking Up Genealogy | Gena Philibert-Ortega

Family History, Guest Blogger By admin December 15, 2015 Tags: community cookbooks, cookbooks, family history, genealogy No Comments

I have always loved family history research. My maternal grandmother was the family historian and shared stories of our ancestry with me. There’s no doubt that those stories influenced my work as a genealogist. But, while family history has been an interest of mine since I was a child, I’ve also conducted historical and psychological research as…

Not Another Cemetery… | Debra Carter

Family History, Guest Blogger By admin December 8, 2015 Tags: #MyCanvasGBS, Debra Carter, genealogy trip, graveyard, mycanvas guest blog series No Comments

“Not another cemetery…!” is a familiar chorus in our family whenever we head out on a road trip, whether it is a family holiday, an overseas trip, or even just a Sunday drive in the country. A genealogist in the mix is always going to result in a travel adventure…

Hilson: A Story Behind the Name | Madam Ancestry

Family History, Guest Blogger By admin December 1, 2015 Tags: #MyCanvasGBS, death certificates, family history, genealogy, guest bloggers, Madam Ancestry, newspapers, photographs No Comments

My research began with a man by the name of Nathaniel Henry Hilson and his brother, Emmitt Henry Hilson.
Nathaniel was my great-grandfather. I was always told that he was from Oklahoma. One day I remember hearing a story that conflicted…

Capturing Moments of Memories | Jennifer Gibby

Family History, Guest Blogger By admin November 24, 2015 Tags: #MyCanvasGBS, gifts, guest bloggers, Jennifer Gibby, Memories, moments, mycanvas guest blog series No Comments

It has happened again. That overwhelming feeling of comfort and joy in remembering. The air temperature, the wind blowing gently, and…

The Importance of Family | Marsha Foreman

Family History, Guest Blogger By admin November 17, 2015 Tags: adopting, adoption, family history, fostering No Comments

This is my favorite time of the year. Yes, I love fall colors, hayrides, and apple pies but this time of the year means so much more…

How to Index Old Family Photos | Physical Copies

Family History, Photography By admin November 13, 2015 Tags: albums, family history, genealogy, history, old photos, organization, photographs, photography, preservation No Comments

A lot of family photos today are digitital. Information such as the day, place, and individual can be easy to record on iphones, with Facebook, or during the download process. However, the same cannot be said for the old, tarnished photographs…

Right Name, Wrong Body Syndrome! | Linda Eccles

Family History, Guest Blogger By admin November 10, 2015 Tags: #MyCanvasGBS, ancestry, family history, family tree, genealogy, Linda Eccles, name No Comments

“Right name, wrong body syndrome” can best be described as, when looking for the origins of someone who has married into the family being researched, out of several possibilities the wrong body is chosen. This is the story of one such occurrence…

Lost Amongst the Fruits, Health & Wealth | Richard Lee Cronin

Family History, Guest Blogger By admin November 3, 2015 Tags: #MyCanvasGBS, eulogy, florida, genealogy, Guest blog sereis, history, newspapers, reporter, richard, richard lee cronan No Comments

Family trees today can still be found having empty branches. Alongside one name is perhaps a year of birth, but little else to explain away that long-lost relative, a loved one who had gone in search of America’s Paradise. But archives can often provide answers, sometimes in the least expected places…

Compiling My Family Tree | June Terrington

Family History, Guest Blogger By admin October 27, 2015 Tags: #MyCanvasGBS, family history, family tree, genealogy, guest blogger, June Terrington, research No Comments

My name is June Terrington. I have Charcot Marie Toothe Syndrome, am confined to a wheelchair and have been since I was 16.
With little resources and money, I was able to compile my family tree from the very little I knew to, what has become, a major work in progress…

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