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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: C_Bishop on Thursday 21 August 08 23:56 BST (UK)
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Hi
My brother and his partner are expecting twin daughters (identical!) in November. My brother's partner is interested in family history too so i thought i'd put together a little book of our family tree for the girls. I probably wouldn't put all of it in, would probably just go back to the early 1800s and mainly centre on main ancestors.
What i'd love to hear, is any ideas on how i should go about this, presentation and format. Are there any good books that would allow me to record this much? One thing that puts me off a book (already bined etc) is that i'd prefer to type it up (my handwriting tends to slip a little, and change styles depending on my mood!!!) I've had a little play on the familytree maker program yet it doesn't really do what i had in mind.
Any advice would be much appreciated! I wanted to do something quite special for them! ;D Especially as one is being named after me, my mother and gt gran!!! The other is being named with the mothers family names.....very nice idea :D
Thanks
Cat
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Hi Cat,
how wonderful ... twins ... special people you know ;D ;D ;D
Yeah, one of those babies in my avatar is me.
What I did for my twin and I for our 50th was a combination of quilting, applique, scrapbooking and a basic history of our lives. Probably not suitable for what you want and of course it depends on whether you can sew or not.
Happy to put a pic up if you want.
I too change my style of handwriting ;) so completely understand that.
I am sure there will be many ideas, I recall someone made up a box of goodies, with photos, memorabilia etc, all of which was decorated beautifully.
Can't recall who it was ::)
Margaret
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Hi Margaret
Yes, i am so happy for them, to have or to be twins would be fantastic! This is the 2nd set of twins for my brother (different mothers ::) ) But from what i hear, the fathers don't determine whether they're twins....just luck i guess! Our line is riddled with twins, so when the day comes where i have children i won't be surprised if i end up with a 2 in 1! Apparently my brother's partner doesn't know of any twins in her family, and she has 3 children already from a previous marriage (no twins) So yes....they are going to have 5 children under 10yrs old! Lucky they have plenty of family to lend a hand!
Thats a great idea, but not really what i had in mind.... :-[ and i can't sew! :D I should learn, i can imagine in years to come the skills woman had like sewing, knitting and even cooking will become rare! In my defense....my mother and grandmother were/are not the best cooks or seamstresses!
I'd be interested in seeing a pic though! I just saw a post with a similar question and that gave some really good ideas, but I'm still kind of stuck on what i can do for the presentation of it....maybe just a very nice blank hardcover book with just a scrapbook type of thing inside....I'm not the most creative person!
Thanks for the advice!
Cat
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That is a brilliant idea Cat.
I hope you get lots of useful suggestions.
It's a long time since I tried it but PAF via LDS used to allow one to construct a tree and download it, almost in book form, with photos attached to each name.
I only mention this because it was free.
There are a lot of programs out there that do the same thing. However. they cost!
Why not just take the time to sit down with a blank photo album, fill it with photos from your oldest rellies down to the new weans (scans?) and write your own wee memories beside each photo. Get other members of family to write in it beside their own photo.
It's personal.
Think how you woulld feel now if you could look at a photo album that had comments and photos of all your rellies.
Dave (a tight Scot) Forrest.
PS Enjoy your nieces. Good luck to your brother and his wife.
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Thanks for that Dave, what a great idea!
Would make it a really nice family heirloom in years to come, pity a generation or 2 before me couldn't have done it too! I've been given alot of photos of older generations so that is definitely something i will do. I could even include a few scenic shots i've come across, like a house a 5th gt gran lived in (in good old Scotland :D) Photos definitely will be used! Makes it so much more then just names and dates!
Will indeed enjoy the neices! Being an aunty is great! They'll be spoiled rotten!
Thanks!
Cat
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Hi again,
here is a pic of the cover, just put it up the other day so sorry to all those who are over it ::)
I will see if I can find the other site I was talking about, about a year and a half ago.
Margaret
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Oh wow, that is amazing! Very beautiful!! Gosh your clever ;D
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Thankyou :)
Cat, found the one I was referring to.
More on my book thingy in there.
but on page 3 you see what one of the other ladies put together, really beautiful.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,209437.0.html
Margaret
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I think I'm turning into a girlie - I can't believe I'm enjoying this stuff. That's lovely Margaret.
PS Cat, sorry to change subject.
Noticed your Scottish names - Farquharson rang a bell (I've been looking for a Farquhar).
Have you got David Farquharson marrying Elizabeth Durward in 1813 in Brechin?
No relly to me but I've got the record from SP if you want it.
Dave
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Hi Dave
Wow, yes, David and Elizabeth are my 5x gt grandparents, Elizabeth is the gran i mentioned previously who i have a photo of her home (prior to her marriage in 1813) I think i have the record you are speaking of, (handwritten piece saying the date of marriage and where they are from eg. Elizabeth of Blaikie Mill?)
Good luck on your Farquhar's. I'm stuck on David's father John Farquharson, i've been wondering if he may have used Farquhar for a surname. There is a number of us researching this family, with no success on him or Elizabeth's family.
Thanks for that link Meg, there are alot of good ideas out there!
Will be a challenge yet i think it will be quite enjoyable.....might need to find away to get a copy of whatever i come up with for others too!
Thanks
Cat
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Meg
Gosh your picture you drew is fantastic, and the inside of the book really nice, your so talented!!
Cat
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Thankyou,
shame no housework gets done ;D ;D ;D
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Yes, very true. Once i get started on something like this everything suffers (especially my partner...who just doesn't seem to get it!) When i discovered his family was the Campbell's from Scotland and realised that his ancestors would've fought mine in the Culloden battle i was shocked....and gave him grief about it! Which he thought was completely unreasonable :D He might've had a point ::)
Oops off subject again!
My brother and his partner are coming for lunch tomorrow and i'm so unorganised as my mind has been on this! Now i have to head off to work and won't get much at all achieved!
Thanks for all the tips and advice and for sharing your beautiful work.
Cat
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Hi Cat
I have not been on this site for years!! :-[
However. just found your message from 2007 re the Carlton query - couldn't reply from it (Expired??) so found this one! Have since discovered they were Carolan (CO Cavan) - sorry for the delay but I do appreciate your message!!
I'm in NZ too!! Have you looked at the Pilot Reseach site on familysearch.org? They are adding lotsa Irish info all the time & I have found it very helpful!!
Regards
Chrisanne
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A lot of the brick walls I was hitting in the beginning of my research was because I didn't know all the other avenues that you could research. I was just checking birth, marriage, and death records - when I started looking at war records and census stuff my family tree project really got going :)
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Hi Cat,
Congratulations on your family news. I thought I would show you the cover that I have recently put together for a book that I eventually want to print. I did this in Publisher, a simple desktop publishing program. If you do not have this you could also do it in Word which most people have. I got the idea from one of the links that "little Meg" gave in an earlier post. You could personalise each one, with the names at the bottom and the date and time of birth and a photo in the background. Also if you had these printed in colour on really high quality photo paper, you could frame them. This would also make a lovely gift.
I have changed the names at the bottom of mine just for this post as relatives are living, but the details at the top are correct.
Regards Kaybron
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Kaybron, love your idea. It looks great and works well.
Thanks for sharing.
Margaret