Vintage-themed Bridal Events: Perfect Venues for Your Family Artifacts
If you have a wedding coming up in your family circle, consider including family artifacts in the décor. Incorporating your treasured family heirlooms into a bridal shower or wedding creates a natural setting for sharing family history and memories. Adding Family...
Writing Descriptive Vignettes Featuring Family Artifacts
In a past post, we presented writing about family artifacts as a “way in” to your family history. Curiosity about your family heirlooms as well as your ancestors’ everyday objects can lead you to a time past and inspire meaningful writing to add to your family...
Discovering the Stories in Your Family Artifacts
As family history writers, many of us research the origin of our artifacts and collect the “hard facts” about them, but what we really want to uncover are the meanings and stories our ancestors associated with them.
