Christmas gifts - Ideas #3

Here's another list of unique family gifts to give to a family member who loves genealogy or someone who has everything. They will appreciate a gift with a lot of meaning to them or their family.

1. Census Enumerations - Some census records are available online of your family, your parents, your grandparents, etc. Photocopy this and place it in a notebook or binder. I use clear plastic protector sheets to put them in. You can give a gift of many census records and divide the different family apart with dividers and place them into a binder and wrap it up for the family member. Sometimes the census records has their family members, friends on it as well that they were close to while growing up. It will give them many memories of their past.

2. Military Histories - I was able to get the military history of my father and my Uncle who both fought in WW11 from the Canadian gov't as well as my great grandfather's military records as he fought in WW1. You can contact the gov't for the papers about their service in the wars, go to local libraries if in the civil war, etc. Get photos, military metals, discharge papers, awards, etc of the family member who served. Place the papers in plastic protector sheets in a binder. It's a wonderful gift.

3. Photographs - Restore or reprint ancestral photos for family members, wedding pictures, childhood photos, etc for your family members. They are priceless gifts!

Christmas gifts - Ideas #2

Here are some more unique, great gift ideas for family members, genealogists, etc:

1. Get a good quality portrait copy made of one of your ancestors, frame it and give it as a Christmas gift to one of your family members.

2. If you or someone you know draws well you can have a drawing of that family member or special tree in the yard where they played as a child, etc frame it or roll it up with a ribbon to give as a gift. I've drawn pictures of my children at different ages of their lives. I've also given away a portriat that I drew of my aunt and uncle for a gift framed.

3. You can also make a small scrapbook of family photos or of one child or person's life to give them for Christmas. Pictures are precious memories that people never tire of. One Christmas our house burned down and we had nothing left but the clothes on our backs after it was over. We really appreciated any photos given to us of our lives, my children's lives. Pictures are irreplaceable.

Christmas gifts - ideas #1

Over the next few weeks I will have a series of unique gift ideas for your family or that certain someone who has everything or the genealogist.

1. Genealogy Calendar - you can make one yourself with certain software and materials or go to a print shop, office shop or a big box store photography dept to have them print up 1 or more unique calendar gifts. You can select heritage photos or modern family photos, baby photos and words quoted by family members to add with the photos.

2. Marriage Bond - I had a marriage bond made for my husband for a present one time. It has both our family crests on united and our wedding date. I framed it and my husband loved it.

3. Tombstone Rubbings and Photographs - You can make a tombstone rubbing of your loved ones tomb stone or your ancestor. You can also take photos of tombstones for gifts to give to someone in your family of their relatives. Someone who loves genealogy will love that. I also have gotten maps of the cemetery which you can give them to help them find the tombstones. You can also give them with that a history of the cemetery.


by Queenie 1