Helen's Genealogy Journeys - Tracing My Ancestors Around the Globe

The Felting Sisters In an earlier blog, I talked about how my sisters and I, "The Felting Sisters", using the opportunity of an annual visit to talk about memories of our childhood. While the main focus of our time together was to enjoy some time experimenting with felt art, we took some time to talk about our memories from our childhood.  This year, we also decided to sort through some of the old childhood photos that our dad kept in a Rubbermaid bin.  We lived in many different places during our childhood so we decided to sort the photos by location.  We spent time trying to determine dates and location of each photo but eventually we were able to assign all of the photos to the correct zip-lock bag. Childhood photos sorted into location We ended up with about 13 packages starting with photos from Belize (1946-1954), to our first move to San Fernando, Trinidad (1954-1956).  Next we moved to Georgetown, Guyana (1956-1964), then back to San Fe...

One of the joys of growing older is connecting with siblings and sharing family memories.  My two sisters and I meet annually to re-connect, have fun creating works of felt art (at least we think that they are works of art 🙂), and talking about memories of our childhood. One of my works of felt art created at our felting get-together In fact, this is an integral part of our 'felting sisters' week together every year.  This is a fairly new tradition but one that I thoroughly enjoy as the designated family genealogist.  I have spent years working on family trees and trying to find out as much as I can about the lives of our ancestors but I never really thought about recording my and my siblings memories.  After all, I think I remember what happened and, besides, who would be interested anyway?  But I am finally following all of the advice given in genealogy magazines, webinars and blogs about collecting family stories from immediate family.  Last ...