Celebrating Genealogy:  9 Family Tradition Ideas Anyone Can Use

By Genealogy Pals

Focusing on making genealogy a natural part of your family's traditions will help your family develop increased resilience and stability while becoming closer.

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here are some Family Tradition Ideas to celebrate Genealogy

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Celebrate an ancestor's birthday

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Have a cake, streamers, a whole party, or even the works to celebrate an ancestor's birthday.

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Read your kids the bedtime stories you read when you were a kid

Did you have a favorite book or story as a kid? Read those to your kids for bedtime.

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Make, keep, and celebrate holiday traditions

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What are your family's favorite foods, books, songs, or whatever else on a specific holiday? Keep using those - and talk about how long they've been a tradition in your family.

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Eat breakfast casserole on Sundays or special occasions. Let  the birthday person pick their favorite meal for dinner.

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Foods (on special occasions or just because)

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Celebrate holidays from your family's heritage or traditional countries

Either celebrate holidays in countries that your family is from or incorporate that country's traditions into a shared holiday.

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Go watch the Disney/Pixar movie Coco. Don't forget tissues while you're learning about this amazing cultural celebration of family past and present. Then, consider celebrating your own family next Día de Los Muertos.

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Important milestones

Create special celebrations or activities for graduations, marriages, completing a school year, losing a tooth, etc. Make it fun! For ideas #8 and #9, read the article!