Welcome to my first ever post to my first ever blog!
Here on Mission Impossible - Making Genealogy Fun For My Teen Blog, I will be sharing my year-long journey to help my 8th grade son complete his family heritage album. Not only complete it, but actually enjoy it. (OK, if not enjoy it, at least not detest it.) I already went through this process with my older son two years ago. That ended up being a year of a whole lot of nagging with a final product basically full of names, dates and places, but not much else. Hindsight being 20/20, this time around I want to find ways to engage my son by making his ancestors come alive and become interesting people to get to know. It will take some work, but I choose to accept the mission!
My 8th grade son must complete a family heritage album for his history class by May 2013. I love genealogy but it makes his eyes glaze over (as well as many of my extended family). My mission is to find ways to make this a fun assignment. Rather than just names and dates in a family tree, I want to make his ancestors come alive. Please comment with any ideas you have!
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
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