Family Directory

Keeping in touch with family members is an important part in establishing a family legacy. Sometimes that can be difficult when family members start moving to different areas and the genealogy branches start spreading out.

For the person who likes to keep track of everyone and stay in touch; a Family Directory might be just the thing you want to put together. You would start with the top of the genealogy tree; your grandparents, if they are still living.

Copy a couple of photos - maybe from years gone by and a more recent one of today so people can recognize and correlate faces and names together. Then list their birthdays, anniversary, address, phone number and any other information you feel is relevant. Continue to do this for cousins, aunts, uncles, children, and grandchildren and so on until you have everyone compiled into the Directory.

What fun it will be to track everyone down and get pictures to insert into the book! I think it would be even more fun to hand one of these out to everyone in the family (you could gather a few dollars for expenses if necessary) - a reunion would be just the occasion to deliver these special books.

It might take awhile to finish, but worth the effort to have all of your relatives at your fingertips.