I’m using the ’52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History’
series authored by Amy Coffin as an aid in starting
my personal history throughout the year. I want to leave my OWN story in my own words so my
posterity will be able to know me a little better. Perhaps you’d like to do the
same.
Here is the beginning of my memories about Dinner Time.
See the entire challenge on my Examiner.com article.
As a child, my mom fixed the dinners and we had dinner every
night around 6 pm. Dad had regular work
hours, so this routine was useful to all of us and added stability to our
routines at home.
When I was a mother of young children, my husband had varying work
schedules. I still tried to have a
regular dinner time, yet I was fine with being flexible, too. When he wasn’t home, we’d sometimes eat out
with friends or bring in meals, if I was tired.
Now, my five children are grown.
Some have families of their own.
We have “Family Dinner” once a month—where all our children, their
spouses and their children get together to share a meal and talk and have fun. It is served buffet style from our counter,
and we all sit down at our dining room table and eat as a family. It has become a beautiful tradition, and is
something we look forward to each month.
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Leave
a comment and tell us YOUR memories of dinner time.
As
founder of Family Tree Quest, people sometimes ask what tools I recommend for
organizing and recording personal and family history. Here are my highest
recommendations.
Heritage Collector Suite- Your complete Family History Management System (my highest
recommendation)
This has everything you need to get your family history clutter into one, orderly place. Store and retrieve photos, documents, videos, etc. Create a PDF for a bound book. Many bonus items such as storybook and GPS modules.
Personal Historian Software- I love it’s timelines and personal history prompts.
Flip-Pal™ mobile scanner – Portable, easy flip-and-scan-technology. You can even scan pictures in the frame or while they remain in their photo albums! I sit on the sofa in comfort and scan to my hearts delight.
This has everything you need to get your family history clutter into one, orderly place. Store and retrieve photos, documents, videos, etc. Create a PDF for a bound book. Many bonus items such as storybook and GPS modules.
Personal Historian Software- I love it’s timelines and personal history prompts.
Flip-Pal™ mobile scanner – Portable, easy flip-and-scan-technology. You can even scan pictures in the frame or while they remain in their photo albums! I sit on the sofa in comfort and scan to my hearts delight.
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As the
Phoenix Genealogy Examiner, I create an article about this
series each Monday. Click subscribe
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reader. These weekly challenges are
authored by Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog
and hosted on the GeneaBloggers
website.
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Connection: I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade
Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255:
“Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.” I
have not received any compensation from Amy Coffin or GeneaBloggers.com for
writing this post. I am listed on the GeneaBloggers Blog Roll because I find it
to be a valuable, shared community resource. As founder of Family Tree Quest
[dot] com, I am an affiliate of LifeStory Productions, Inc. Flip-pal and Galison and Mudpuppy and Amazon
[dot] com.
