Granduncle Mark's Genealogy Parlor
Happy
Holidays
to you
and your
ancestors!
To my genealogy friends ...
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Solstice, Happy Shawwal,
Happy Theravada,
Happy whatever is your inspiration, as you celebrate this winter!
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Happy Holidays to all of you Web visitors,
with best wishes from,
Mark (posing as a Christmas tree)
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Genealogy can lead to creative holiday gifts!
Would someone in
your family enjoy a framed photo of an ancestor?
Would someone like a photo of an ancestor on a t-shirt?
Would someone in your family enjoy a home-made book by you
summarizing what you know about the family so far?
Would someone enjoy receiving their own pedigree chart,
framed by you?
Would someone like a subscription to a genealogy society newsletter
in a county where an ancestor lived?
Is there someone who "has everything" who would appreciate
you honoring him/her by repairing an ancestor's cemetery marker?
Is there someone who would be thrilled to be named in the
dedication of the genealogy material / book that you donate to a
genealogy library?
Would someone enjoy a food gift, knowing that you used your
common great-grandparent's recipe?
Would someone value a collection of an ancestor's poetry,
drawings, recipes, letters, photos, quilts, crocheting, or jewelry?
Regarding the holiday cards that can be printed with a photo,
would your relatives enjoy a holiday greeting with a photo of your
common ancestor on it?
Are any of these things that you could put on your own
holiday wish list?
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Fun Genealogy Gifts (Looking for clever genealogy gifts?
Mike Bright has done
the research for you with pages of links to sites that sell clever items.)
A Christmas stocking made by my mother,
Winifred Jean (Eddleman) Hickman
(who was born 29 July 1930).
I recall when Mother made these stockings for
my sister Susan and I (our sister Cathy wasn't born yet),
and Aunt Elizabeth Ann (Eddleman) Hazel made them for her
two first born children, at the home of Elizabeth's mother-in-law,
Nola (Judah) Hazel, while Nola still lived in the Hazel family farm house
in rural Monroe County, Indiana, during the 1950's.
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Click on image to see larger photo!)
Amber, a doberman-german shepherd mix,
guards the Christmas tree! (Christmas, 2000)
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on photo to see larger photo!
Copyright 1996-2006, Granduncle Mark
(Mark Ellsworth Hickman, PhD)
Granduncle Mark's Genealogy Parlor
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