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Why It Is Important to Keep a Family History

It used to be that families never ventured far from home. Most extended family members lived close together, many times in the same town or even as neighbors. Today you don’t find many families that live close. Jobs and education have created families that are spread far and wide. Although we can stay in touch with email and phone calls, we miss out on the personal relationships. As time goes by, we lose touch and never really get to know our extended family.

The interaction we have with our family that lives far away is similar to how we know our ancestors. We know of them, we may even know a little bit about their lives and what they do. But do we know their personal stories?

We get a sense of who we and are our place in a family by connecting to our extended family, whether it is faraway family of today or our ancestors of the past.  Personal stories and family experiences are invaluable to making that connection.  We need to make the effort to stay in touch with our extended family as well as learn more about our ancestors.  

Staying connected with our family that live faraway is both easier and harder than ever before. It is easier because of all the technology available to us today.  We can email, send videos and make telephone calls. It is even easier for us to visit our extended family. People in years past might have never got the opportunity to see their family that moved even a few hundred miles away because of the slow methods of transportation available to them. We can quickly cover the distance with modern travel.  However, our lives are busier than ever so it is hard to find the time to make those important family connections.  

There are simple ways to stay connected with your extended family. It may take a little time, but when you really think about it family is worth the effort.  Many of these ideas will also help toward writing your history for your posterity. Someday we will be the ancestors and our descendents will wonder about our stories.

Start a circle journal. If you have siblings or cousins that live faraway, start a circle journal within the group. Start a journal and keep it for a week or so. Write down information about your family, things you have been doing and what your kids are involved in.  After you have kept it for a short time, mail it to the next person on the list and they will do the same. Set up the time period so each person gets the journal about every six weeks. When you get the journal back you can read about what everyone else has been doing with their lives, then you update your information and pass it along again.  Every year, copy all the pages and mail each person a copy.  This is a fun way to keep in touch with a group of people and it is more personal than a yearly update letter.  

One of the great things about a circle journal is you are creating a history of your everyday life for your descendants.  We tend to record the big events, but not our daily routine.  If you research your family history you will find that you cherish the records of the mundane things of everyday. These are the events that make our ancestors real and help us to identify with them. It is important to create that kind of record for your posterity.  

Start a family blog. Blogging is a great way to stay in touch and share stories. You can keep your blog private and only invite family members. This is a perfect way to share everyday events and milestones.

Create a digital scrapbook. Digital scrapbooking is an inexpensive, mess free way to create a family record. The great thing about digital scrapbooking is you can share your pages with family far and wide by posting them on the web. You can also have your scrapbook professionally printed and bound and give it as gifts.

There are many different ways to keep a record of your life. Just as records of ancestors are important to us, someday your record will be invaluable to your posterity. Family history is how we know where we have been and where we are going. Make sure your family history has you in it!

About the Author

Piper spends her time researching her family history and using her USB slide scanner. She enjoys nature, reading and spending time with her family. You can learn more about using a slide scanner on her website http://www.35mmslideconverter.org.

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Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation $30 “Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works?each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century?contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries. The Library of Christian Classics ensures that this great literature of the Christian heritage is easily available and invites the ongoing development of theology.”

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Healing Your Family History: 5 Steps To Break Free Of Destructive Patterns $10.49 This fascinating book by Rebecca Linder Hintze powerfully and effectively communicates a key, and sometimes overlooked, piece of the puzzle relating to family dynamics. For example, have you ever wondered why some families reach a ceiling on their earning potential, struggle to have happy marriages, or have such difficult interactions with their siblings and parents? Perhaps your family has a history of sabotaging careers or thwarting their love relationships? Healing Your Family History explains that most of our individual issues originate from family blocks. As you read this book, you’ll come to understand how family belief systems store inside you and prevent individual growth by locking you into thought processes that hold you back. All families have these nonverbal belief systems, and unless you understand and heal your inherent blocks, it may be difficult to love others, move forward, and get what you want in life. Most people have a family . . . and we all have a reason to heal our related challenges after all, tribal issues sit at the core of world turmoil. Those who are truly ready to heal their family dysfunction will benefit immensely from this book!

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Breaking Free: A Recovery Handbook for Facing Codependence” $18.99 “In her pioneering “Facing Codependence, ” Pia Mellody traced the origins of codependence back to childhood and a wide range of emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, and sexual abuses. Now in this innovative new workbook, she presents a step-by-step journal-keeping method for moving toward recovery from codependence. Based on such concepts as the “precious child” and the five core symptoms of codependence, along with the Twelve-Step process of recovery used by Codependents Anonymous, “Breaking Free” provides strategies and insights for attacking the fundamental problem in codependence–the lack of dependence on self. > In a three-part approach to recovery, Mellody first shows recovering codependents how to move beyond denial of their childhood history of abuse. She then offers techniques to identify concrete ways in which the symptoms of codependence operate in their lives. Finally, Mellody guides users through the process of identifying and recording specific instances of improvement in their lives as an aid to greater self-awareness and further recovery.”

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To My Family: My Reflections, Values, Experiences and Family History $21 “A large portion of our population are in the golden years of their life and have lived through unprecedented changes during their life span that has never been recorded. They have an amazing history locked in their minds that most family members are unaware of. Every year families lose their parents before they have gleaned valuable histories of family trees, events, memories and historical values that can never be recovered. Most family members are unaware of the amazing history of these great saints. Here is a resource that captures a lifetime of detail that can be passed down for generations to come. > How we communicate life’s lessons to our children, may determine the course set for our descendants’ own lives. Little may remain to remind anyone of an ordinary life-a cold, hard tombstone, a few dog-eared photos, perhaps some possessions, unless written down. The thoughts and beliefs that once defined an individual, disappear with his or her last breath. > “To My Family: My Reflections, Values, Experiences and Family History” is a practical, user-friendly tool that will allow families to capture the rich legacy of their family members for the conveyance of wisdom, knowledge, family history, understanding and the experience of beloved family members before it is too late.”

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Oxford Companion to Family and Local History $4.51 If like many Americans you’re curious about your roots, this Companion is the perfect guide to investigating family history in the British Isles. Edited by David Hey, a leading authority, the book provides helpful information for anyone enquiring into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins and for anyone working in genealogical research or on the social history of the British Isles. This fully revised and updated edition has been newly structured for ease of use, with an informative thematic essay section followed by an A-Z dictionary with more than 2,000 jargon-free entries, as well as detailed appendices which include further reading and up-to-date recommended websites. New essays for this edition are: "A Guide for Beginners," "Links between British and American Families," "Black and Asian Family History," and an extended article on "Names." With research tips, a full background to the social history of communities and individuals, and a special updated appendix listing all national and local record offices with their contact details, this is an essential reference work for anyone interested in uncovering and understanding the past.

The History of the Royal Family of England $31.19 Volume: 1 Publisher: Edinburgh; London: Sands Subjects: Nobility — Great Britain Great Britain — Kings and rulers Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Denman Family History $28.71 Publisher: Glendale News Publication date: 1913 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Politics of Liberation: A Critical Global History Reclaiming Liberation Theology Series $100 “SCM’s Reclaiming Liberation Theology series seeks to establish a constructive dialogue between the first and the new generation of liberation theologians. Enrique Dussel is one of the world’s foremost Marxist philosophers whose work continues to have a profound impact on liberation theology. In Politics of Liberation Dussel presents an alternative reading of the history of the political world and the ideas that have inspired their political philosophy. He argues that our current view of the world needs to break free from being too focused on the thought world of Ancient Greece and on Europe. In this work he offers a reading of the political history of the world as an against-story, a story of an anti-traditional tradition.”

The History $16 “David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. >Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. In his “History,” the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama. >In Grene’s remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the skeletal “historical” facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches. Herodotus emerges in all his charm and complexity as a writer and the first historian in the Western tradition, perhaps unique in the way he has seen the interrelation of fact and fantasy. >”Reading Herodotus in English has never been so much fun. . . . Herodotus crowds his fresco-like pages with all shades of humanity. Whether Herodotus’s view is ‘tragic, ‘ mythical, or merely common sense, it provided him with a moral salt with which the diversity of mankind could be savored. And savor it we do in David Grene’s translation.”–Thomas D’Evelyn, “Christian Science Monitor” >”Grene’s work is a monument to what translation intends, and to what it is hungry to accomplish. . . . Herodotus gives more sheer pleasure than almost any other writer.”–Peter Levi, “New York Times Book Review >”"

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Life in the Family: An Oral History of the Children of God $29.95 “From a unique insider’s perspective — including interviews with more than seven-hundred family members — James D. Chancellor charts The Family’s course since its emergence as the most controversial group to grow out of the Jesus People Movement in the 1960s.>Chancellor, who had extraordinary access to rare Family records, includes the experiences of members who have remained loyal to the community and to the founding vision of their prophet, David Brandt Berg. In the first book of its kind — comprising often painful personal histories and firsthand accounts — Chancellor focuses on the motivation and process of becoming a Child of God, the core beliefs of the community, the mission of the disciples, their shifting sexual mores, and the cost of membership in terms of internal discipline and external persecution.>Intense confrontation with the legal, religious, political, and educational establishment marked the movement’s activities from the beginning. The young disciples heeded the call of their prophet to flee a soon-to-be-destroyed North America. Dispersed throughout Europe, Latin America, Africa, and East Asia, they virtually disappeared from the American landscape. In the late 1980s, The Family had gone through extreme theological and lifestyle changes, including a radical reordering of their sexual ethos. The Children of God started to come home. Now a worldwide counterculture of some twelve thousand members, the movement’s colorful history reveals a profoundly religious group that has tested the limits of human experience.”

History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland Co $24.6 Publisher: Philadelphia Publication date: 1891 Subjects: Graff family Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 4: Reformation of Church a $25 “This penultimate volume in Pelikan’s acclaimed history of Christian doctrine–winner with Volume 3 of the Medieval Academy’s prestigious Haskins Medal–encompasses the Reformation and the developments that led to it. >”Only in America, and in this case from a Lutheran scholar, could we expect an examination so lacking in parti pris, a survey so perceptive, so free–and, one must say, the result of so much immense labor, so rewardingly presented.”–John M. Todd, “New York Times Book Review” >”Never wasting a word or losing a plot line, Pelikan builds on an array of sources that few in our era have the linguistic skill, genius or ambition to master.”–Martin E. Marty, “America” >”The use of both primary materials and secondary sources is impressive, and yet it is not too formidable for the intelligent layman.”–William S. Barker, “Eternity “>”

Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South $18.17 In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton-gin maker-a master craftsman. When nearly all free blacks were destitute, Ellison was wealthy and well-established. He owned a large plantation and more slaves than all but the richest white planters. While Ellison was exceptional in many respects, the story of his life sheds light on the collective experience of African Americans in the antebellum South to whom he remained bound by race. His family history emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery.

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Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America $25.99 “>Judge Andrew Napolitano lays bare the twisted legal history of racism in America. >”All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights” wedded the American soul to the concept that freedom comes from our humanity, not from the government. But American governments legally suspended the free will of blacks for 150 years, and then denied blacks equal protection of the law for another 150 years. How did this happen in America, how were the Constitution and laws of the land twisted so as to institutionalize racism, and how did it or will it end? In a refreshingly candid book, “Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom In America,” Judge Andrew P. Napolitano takes a no-holds-barred look at the role of the government in the denial of freedoms based on race. >Endorsements >”The best history of the law and race I’ve ever read. . . Judge Napolitano has written a challenge to anyone who thinks they understand the roots of America’s tangled race relations.” — Juan Williams, National Public Radio >”The Attorney General ignited a firestorm by suggesting that ours was a nation of ‘cowards’ when it comes to conversations about race. Judge Andrew Napolitano is no coward. His brave and incisive book takes the calamitous, contemptuous Dred Scott decision, which held slaves to be “non-persons,” as its starting point. In this sharply written narrative, the Judge shows us how race remains the driving force in almost every aspect of American life, from education to law enforcement. Dred Scott, the person, would have appreciated this graphic and honest appraisal.” — Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Channel >”Judge Napolitano . . . has written a riveting guide to the tumultuous history of our civil rights journey, coming to a post-racial society.” — Nat Hentoff, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, senior fellow at the Cato Institute >”Dred Scott’s Revenge makes it impossible for the self-anointed ‘experts’ on race relations to ever accuse the country of being too afraid to have a national discussion on race. Judge Napolitano lays out 150 years of our national experience . . . and places the blame for much of what’s wrong squarely at the feet of those responsible: the federal government and politicians whose plans, policies, and programs trashed the Constitution. Compelling and timely reading written for the layman, not lawyers ” — Glenn Beck, Nationally syndicated radio talk show host; Host, The Glenn Beck Program, Fox News Channel >”It is said President Obama gave the definitive speech on race; well, Judge Andrew Napolitano has written the definitive book. He] has broken new ground as he examines the precious link between the words men write about freedom and the true freedom of all men.” — Gov. Michael Steele, Chair, Republican National Committee”

Then Comes Marriage?: A Cultural History of the American Family $14.99 “>In 1949 film star Ingrid Bergman fled to Europe following a public outcry and her denunciation by the U.S. Senate. The charge? She had an adulterous affair with director Roberto Rossellini resulting in a pregnancy, actions for which one senator called her “a horrible example of womanhood and a powerful influence for evil.” Would any star flee the country over so minor an offense today? >Author Rebecca Price Janney examines how people in other eras throughout American history conducted their relationships. How did they fall short of God’s ideal as presented in the Scriptures? How often did they get it right? What has led us to becoming a culture of “anything goes” morality? And, conversely, have there been any surprising improvements in recent years? >This book is not a culture-wars creed, but rather a historical look at the American family, showing that the pattern is more complicated than a downward spiral of morality from our country’s founding to the present. In addition, one of the intriguing features of the book is the author’s close look at marriage and relationships within subcultures that are not often considered, including those of Native Americans, Conquistadors, and slaves. >In order to better understand the state of marriage and relationships in the U.S. today, Christians need to better understand not just Scripture but our nation’s history — and “Then Comes Marriage?” gives readers an accessible, broad, and thought-provoking introduction to both.”

Family Traditions $9.99 “One of America’s best-loved artists, Thomas Kinkade is known as the “Painter of Light.” In his new book Family Traditions, Kinkade’s beautiful paintings complement his own words and those of other great writers and thinkers, including Margaret Mead, Ben Franklin, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to celebrate the bonds and traditions of family. Families keep us grounded with subtle reminders of our heritage and, at the same time, serve as a springboard to help us embark on new adventures. Our families provide love, support, and strength. Whatever our family tree looks like, Family Traditions recognizes the unbreakable ties and irreplaceable relationships we share with these special people in our lives, and reminds readers to “Make home a priority in life. Invest time and energy in creating a warm refuge for yourself and your family, a place where everyone can feel nurtured and cared for, safe and protected, free to be exactly who you are” (Thomas Kinkade).”

History of the Family $47.25 "The History of the Family" concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations. The author examines the contemporary use of these terms and their evolution from nineteenth-century anthropology and social thought. He then considers how these concepts apply to and reveal the nature of European and other societies.

A Genealogy and Brief History of the Haverfield Family of the United States $27.92 Title: A Genealogy and Brief History of the Haverfield Family of the United States, One of the Pioneer Settlers of Jefferson County, Ohio, Later Harrison County Publisher: Oberlin, Ohio, Press of the News Printing Co. Publication date: 1919 Subjects: Haverfield family Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Easy Family History: The Stress Free Guide to Starting Your Research $10.14 This guide is for everyone interested in their ancestors whose research has not yet begun, or is in its early stages. It offers exactly what it says on the cover. David Annal introduces all the relevant sources of information in easy steps and most logical sequence, focusing on what you really need to know. The chapters are interwoven with practical features on issues that could crop up during research: for example different spellings of your ancestor’s surname.Written with humour and minimum fuss, this is the most accessible guide on the market – and at a size and price to suit any pocket.

Becoming a Family That Heals: How to Resolve Past Issues and Free Your Future $13.99 “Many individuals enter marriage with deep soul wounds from their families of origin. Having little or no skill in conflict resolution, communication, and problem-solving, these couples then wound each other, and eventually, their children. This marital and family conflict leaves individual family members feeling alone and isolated, which can lead to divorce. These patterns are then repeated down through the generations. Working with countless families in their counseling practice over the years, the authors developed a model of relationships that has been used successfully to heal individual and family brokenness. They call this the Soul Healing Love model of relationships, and they’ve taught the concepts to ministers, counselors, marriage mentors, and lay leaders around the world. They now want to share these principles with as many families as possible.”

History of the Gubernator Family, of Conwego, Pa $28.71 Publication date: 1892 Description: "From the second volume of Collections and Recollections in the Life and Times of Cardinal Gibbons, by J.T. Reily," pp. 513-576. Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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