by Christine Bell | Dec 23, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
Emily felt warm and comfortable sitting near the hearth while the fire popped and danced. She felt so fortunate to be spending this evening in the humble but lovingly decorated cottage that her great-grandfather Hugh had built. In one corner of the room was a fir tree...
by Christine Bell | Nov 18, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
It’s almost Thanksgiving Day and my thoughts turn to the story of the first Thanksgiving in America. It’s a story of a group of immigrants gathering to express gratitude to God and to the Native Americans for the help received in settling in a new land. For a...
by Christine Bell | Oct 21, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
Keep me, protect me, share me and I will live forever! “Me” is your family photographs. In two previous posts I wrote about “Keep Me” and “Protect Me.” This post will be about “Share Me.” I am currently in the process of selling, giving away or throwing away some of...
by Christine Bell | Sep 30, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
Keep me, protect me, share me and I will live forever! “Me” is your family photographs. In my last post I wrote about “Keep Me” and this post will be about “Protect Me” Every family has a story and the opportunity to record it and protect it. Photographs and other...
by Christine Bell | Sep 16, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
Most people hope to live forever in one form or another. One of the ways we can “live forever” is in other people’s memories and in turn, others can live forever in our memoires. Pictures are a very tangible way to capture and preserve memories. A video from...
by Christine Bell | Aug 19, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
I have done some traveling this summer, but not as much as this post might suggest. I did visit Nauvoo, Illinois and since that visit, I have been thinking about the value of visiting places that can teach about a time period or a culture that an ancestor experienced....
