Family Tree

Harvesting Family History

Family History on Display

amily history and music are central themes in my household. So, when I decided to redecorate my family room, I dug up an old photo of the band that my husband Bill’s grandfather performed with in 1940. I scanned the photo at> to create the perfect backdrop for my piano and Bill’s guitars. I went big (73x 51 inches), and selected a matte-canvas finish. In just three days, it was up on my wall—sure to inspire many future evenings of music!

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Family Tree

Family Tree8 min read
Forest For The Trees
Online family tree sites are terrific tools for organizing your family history, collaborating with other relatives and sharing your findings. Most let you build a tree from scratch or upload a GED-COM file generated from another program or website. A
Family Tree1 min readInternational Relations
Glossary
• aide-de-camp: confidential assistant to an officer, responsible for writing and delivering orders, and knowing troop positions and locations of officer quarters • artillery: cannon or other largecaliber firearms; a branch of the army armed with can
Family Tree4 min read
Kissing Cousins
The mere idea of marrying any of my first or second cousins—family members that I’ve known since earliest childhood and have grown up with in sibling-like relationships—is unthinkable to me. But for generations of our ancestors, a conjugal union betw

Related Books & Audiobooks