SHARE YOUR TREE THIS CHRISTMAS

Christmas is a wonderful time of year for families to gather together and celebrate, but with our relatives assembled, the holiday break can also provide a superb opportunity to help us progress our research. We can use the festivities to get our families to talk about some of the things that we have discovered in our ancestral pursuits, but over mulled wine and a few mince pies, we can also ask them to provide more information. To encourage their participation we can produce gifts that help to stimulate the conversation, and prompt them to talk in detail about the stories that interest us the most.

For many of us, Christmas is also a time when we can finally put our feet up for a few days from a busy year of work. Of course a family historian never stands still for long, and we can also use the period to consider new projects to help us share our ongoing family history discoveries.

Over the next four pages I will examine 12 ways that we can get the best as family historians from our traditional Christmas break.

Record oral history

FamilySearch Memories () is an area of the