Get Creative with Your Family History

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Vicki Korn Niggemeyer has completed a variety of family history projects including: four book-length family histories, two lengthy pictorial histories, small booklets, numerous photo albums, calendars, greeting cards, and other small projects. She received her Bachelor%u2019s Degree in Liberal Studies from the University of Washington. Vicki is married, has three children and five grandchildren.

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Documenting your family history is important. It can also be fun! Get Creative with Your Family History is a how-to-book filled with a variety of ideas for preserving and presenting your family genealogy and stories. Photo albums and books are popular modes of keeping family history, but there are other options as well. Have you ever thought of putting family history on a greeting card? Or making placemats for your children to help them learn about their ancestors? Calendars are another useful but fun way to impart your family history. Illustrations and examples of several projects are provided within this book. Get Creative with Your Family History provides ideas, but you get the satisfaction of doing the work! The book gives hints on organizing your family information, documents and photos. It sheds light on methods to add historical context that can place your ancestors within the activities of the world they lived in. Best of all it gives detailed instructions on making specific keepsakes for your family to pass down to future generations. Every family story is unique, and over time those stories get lost. If you have not yet taken the time to get your stories in writing, do not wait another day. Record your stories now! To read more about this book, and the author, go to: getcreativewithyourfamilyhistory.com