Family Tree Legacies: Preserving Memories Throughout Time

By Allison Stacy and Diane Haddad

Your Interactive Family Album

From the editors of Family Tree magazine, this customizable family keepsake is the perfect place to record and share your family's story.

Family Tree Legacies helps you keep track of basic information and special memories, including traditions, heirloom histories, family records, newsworthy moments, family migrations and immigrations, old recipes, important dates, and much more. This unique book features:

   • dozens of fill-in pages to record all your essential family information
   • a fold-out family tree
   • space for mounting photographs
   • a relationship chart to help you trace your ancestry
   • stickers for use throughout the book
   • tips for discovering facts about your family history
   • a comprehensive list of additional resources
Plus, because of this book's unique binder format, you can literally grow your own family tree by using the included CD to print out new copies of the book's fill-in pages. You can record all your special family moments without ever worrying about running out of space.

Family Tree Legacies is a true treasure you can nurture and pass down through the generations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Release date: Sep 18, 2009
• ISBN: 9781440317095

Book preview

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Family Tree

LEGACIES

PRESERVING MEMORIES

throughout time

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FROM THE EDITORS OF

FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE

ALLISON STACY    •    DIANE HADDAD

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FAMILY

TREE

BOOKS

Cincinnati, Ohio

www.familytreemagazine.com

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FAMILY TREE LEGACIES. Copyright © 2009 by Allison Stacy, Diane Haddad, and the editors of Family Tree Magazine. Manufactured in China. All rights reserved. No other part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review, or the purchaser who may copy the blank forms for personal use. Published by Family Tree Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236. [phone]. First edition.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stacy, Allison.

Family tree legacies: preserving memories throughout time / Allison Stacy, Diane Haddad, and the editors of Family Tree Magazine. -- 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-4403-0134-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Genealogy. I. Haddad, Diane. II. Family tree magazine (Cincinnati, Ohio) III. Title.

CS14.S7 2009

929’.1072--dc22                                                                                       2009009304

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Edited by Kelly Nickell and Melissa Hill

Designed by Terri Woesner

Production coordinated by Mark Griffin

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TABLE of   Contents

INTRODUCTION

You’re about to embark on a fascinating and fulfilling journey to discover and preserve your family’s heritage.

I. OUR FAMILY

Begin recording information and stories about your parents, siblings, spouse, children, and grandchildren.

II. OUR FAMILY TREE

Record names, dates, places, and stories, and track your family tree as it grows and grows.

III. MEMORIES & TRADITIONS

Keep your family’s traditions alive by writing where they came from and how your family shares them.

IV. FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS

Family photos are a visual link to the past. Preserve these precious prints, learn the stories behind them, and pass them on to future generations.

V. FAMILY HEIRLOOMS

Discover how to preserve family heirlooms and save their stories.

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VI. RELATIVES IN THE SERVICE

Honor ancestors who served in the military or held down the home front during times of war by exploring their experiences and recording them here.

VII. RELATIVES MAKING NEWS

Record any newsworthy family moments.

VIII. PLACES

Learn about and commemorate your family’s journeys—their orgins and the places where they settled.

IX. FAMILY RECIPES

Foods evoke strong memories of special times with family. Here’s a place to record those recipes and recollections.

X. IMPORTANT DATES

Remember birthdays, anniversaries, and other special family dates by writing them on this perpetual calendar.

XI. REFERENCE GUIDE

Get the resources and references you need to start discovering, preserving, and celebrating your family’s past.

Introduction

Over time most of us feel the pull to the past: Three-quarters of Americans are either interested in or are actively tracing their family trees. That’s because we instinctively know that our ancestors’ experiences, tribulations, and successes created the families we know today. The shared celebrations, stories, sayings, and beliefs passed from one generation to the next give families a sense of identity and a feeling of closeness. We try to understand our loved ones and ourselves by understanding our ancestors’ lives.

In this book, you’ll find a place to record your family’s story and advice to help you discover new information about your family’s past. Write your immediate family’s names and special memories in chapter one and other relatives’ names, life dates, and places of residence on the fold-out family tree and the family information sheets in chapter two to get started. Then you’ll find space to enclose