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Four More Things to Include in Your Family History

When you are compiling your family history, you probably think of including family stories, pictures and videos. These are important things to include, but there are several smaller things that can help to complete your family history. Here are four things to consider adding to your family history. 1) You may want to include your family’s medical records. These can prove invaluable as doctors try to diagnose your children. My son is not growing at a normal rate, and my father was small as a child. I would love to have his measurement to compare them to my son. I … Continue reading →

2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance

As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006. Deciding to Homeschool Why homeschool Am I qualified for this? Reasons that Homeschooling Works! My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers. The Cost of Homeschooling Instead of standing up for their own kids, why not stand up for all kids? Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education. Did You Know? ‘Empirical … Continue reading →

Making Family History Come Alive

It is difficult for children to imagine their parents as children, even harder for them to picture their grandparents as children. Yet through stories and pictures children can begin to understand family relationships. I was blessed with a grandmother who was an incredible storyteller. She was born in 1907, the second youngest of eleven, and grew up on a farm in southern Idaho. She entertained my siblings and I with many true stories from her own childhood. I can still remember her sharing stories about Indians, gypsies, riding to a one-room schoolhouse in a sleigh, playing in the hayloft, her … Continue reading →

Four Family History Gifts

If you are a family history buff, or even if you have just begun to work on family history, it is important to pass your work on to others. You can teach your family about their family history by giving gifts based on your family history research that you have done over the last year. These make great Christmas gifts, especially to extended family, such as grandchildren, and nieces and nephews. Here are four ideas on family history based Christmas gifts. 1) One great gift to give is that of restored photographs of grandparents and great grandparents. You can have … Continue reading →

Where to Find a Celtic Fest This Summer

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A Celtic fest has nothing at all to do with the football team that has a similarly spelled name. A Celtic fest is a gathering where you can find music, dancing, art, food, gifts, and genealogy related items that connect to Irish, Scottish, or Celtic culture or history. Here is a quick list of where to find some Celtic fests, (or Irish Fests, or Highland Fests), this Summer. In Itasca, Illinois, there will be a Scottish Festival and Highland Games held on June 15, 2012, and June 16, 2012. There will be traditional Scottish food, Scottish whiskey, and Scottish music … Continue reading →

Planning Ahead for Genealogical Gift-Giving

With the holidays a few months away, I thought that now might be a good time to offer up some information about genealogy-themed gifts. Since many genealogy-themed gifts are personalized or require some time to piece together, it is important that you give yourself enough time to have them ready by the desired date. Genealogy-themed gifts abound, and they vary from framed family trees to hand crafted treasures that will stay with the family for years to come. I recently read a news story about a woman who made a genealogy quilt for her son. Colorful patterned blocks alternate with … Continue reading →

My Grandma, My Pen Pal – Jan Dale Koutsky

I’ve indicated in other blogs that my grandmother and I were very close. She passed away in 1999, but her memory is just as real in my heart as her physical presence was when she was alive. When I hit upon “My Grandma, My Pen Pal,” it stirred some of those memories that are so sweet to me. The book begins with the child’s birth. “When I was born, my grandma rocked me, sang to me, and talked to me. She lived a long car ride away, but she would come and stay sometimes. When I got older and could … Continue reading →

How Do I know if a Child is Being Abused?

Every parent’s fear is that their child will be abused. There are four different types of abuse: Neglect, Emotional, Physical and Sexual. There are common physical and behavioral signs that may indicate any of these types of abuse. The presence of one of these signs does not necessarily mean abuse or neglect. When I am assessing for likelihood of abuse, I look for clusters of the signs. If I see many of the signs together, I begin to suspect abuse and I report to a Government body (Police or Welfare) who can investigate and protect the child. Although every family’s … Continue reading →

The Questions Continue Part 1: We love Art, Music and P.E.

Kaye and I have been publicly discussing our views of home schooling vs. schooling out of the home (as homeschoolers would call it). Kaye’s last blog has asked so many questions that I have decided to answer them in three blogs instead of just one! The first question Kaye poses has to do with physical education. If I may, I’m going to expand upon her question, and answer what a home schooling family can do to satisfy requirements (if there are any) regarding art education, music education as well as physical education. I hope that if there are any of … Continue reading →

For Babies Born on the 4th of July

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Congratulations to all the new moms and dads out there who are celebrating a new addition to their families today on the 4th of July. Since there are babies born every day of the year, it is hardly surprising that many children are born on the 4th of July. Any birth day is a great day for parents and children and the 4th of July presents a few challenges, but also a great many treats. Nationwide Celebrations There are only a handful of days during the year where the entire nation celebrates in such a fashion that your baby will … Continue reading →