Create a personal family ancestry heirloom for your family this coming Christmas.

Connect to history through family ancestry research and visiting historic places.

Preserve your family history and ancestry research.  Include old family legends (and the truth behind them) as well as the stories and people you meet along the way researching.

On the eve of 2013, are you thinking about your family history?  Do you want to start researching your ancestry but don't know where to start? Do you want to find out if an old family legend is true? TurtleTrove can help you get started.

Who are you related to?  Do you know your distant cousins too?  Resolve to find them in 2013!  Be they distantly removed by time or place.  I correspond with my distant cousin in Switzerland.  Sharing information brings us all a little closer.

So you may be wondering why I'm talking about food. For our ancestors, the hunt and preservation of food stuffs was critical.  It's not like they could go to the grocery store and get peaches out of season. If the family did not obtain and preserve enough food they would go hungry.  Much of the preservation effort fell to the women and children. And if there wasn't enough food, someone went hungry!

What have you found in your family tree?  Murderers and witches?

Armed Forces Day celebrates the unification of all the armed forces into a single department after World War II. How will you honor the past and current military heros?

The school year is just around the corner and the days will be turning cooler. As fall and winter arrive, now is the time to start planning out your family interviews.