Take time to record and preserve your own personal history as well as taking care of your family’s genealogy. Amy Coffin of the We Tree Blog has authored another fine series of 52 prompts (one for each week of 2011) to help you achieve your family history goals. Use these prompts, as you see fit, to chip away at recording your memories as well as life’s lessons learned for the benefit of future descendants. Use your computer or record your memories on paper. If you have a blog, record them there.
Many thanks to www.GeneaBloggers.com for hosting Amy’s series on their site. Go there if you’d like to join the genealogy blogging community, or if you’d like to see aggregated comments on this series from many genealogy bloggers.
Here’s this week’s challenge: New Year's
Week 1: New Year’s. Did your family have any New Year’s traditions? How was the New Year celebrated during your childhood? Have you kept these traditions in the present day?
Most of us have memories of special foods and activities on traditional holidays. R.S. Murphy of Mesa, AZ remembers attending dances as a teen on New Year’s Eve. As a child on New Year’s Day, he remembers watching parades and football on TV and having extended-family get-togethers with Aunts, Uncles and plenty of cousins. He loved his Aunt Millie’s mint jelly and remembers eating a turkey dinner that day. Since about 6th Grade, he was compelled to sing a “round” for his grandmother with his brother and sister. It was titled, “Supper on the Ground”. Here are the lyrics
All the day for singing
Supper on the ground.
Older folks and youngins
Gather around.
Every kind of vittle
You ever did see.
Come along, Mary,
And sit with me.
So, along with common traditions, perhaps you can remember some that were a bit out-of-the-ordinary. Whatever your memories, enjoy these challenges this year and put them to good use. Decide how you will keep your responses in order for your family records, and get off to a great start on your personal history goals this year. Happy 2011!
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Note: Examiner Carolyn Murphy resides in Mesa, AZ She founded the Family Tree Quest Website and maintains several blogs: Family Tree Gal, Family Tree Quest’s Blog and JOURNALriffic. She can be found on Twitter and Facebook. Contact her with comments or story materials. Check out her unique gift ideas.
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