Category: Advent Calendar

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 15th December – Holiday Happenings and neglected birthdays

15 December, 2011

Write a tribute to those family members who birthdays/anniversaries occur around this time of the year. Alas, alack, it is not such a joyful thing to have a birthday in the six weeks across Christmas to the end of January though ’twas never a neglected birthday. It may not be such a bad thing in … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 15th December – Holiday Happenings and neglected birthdays

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 14th December 2011: Fruitcake – Welcome Friend.

14 December, 2011

Advent Calendar: 14th December – Fruitcake –Welcome Friend. Did you like fruitcake? Did your family receive fruitcakes? Have you ever re-gifted fruitcake? Have you ever devised creative uses for fruitcake (what other than eating?) My hand is already declared – fruitcake is my friend not my foe. Our family has a long tradition of homemade … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 14th December 2011: Fruitcake – Welcome Friend.

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 13th December – Holiday Travel

13 December, 2011

Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did you or your ancestors travel anywhere for Christmas? How did you travel and who travelled with you? Do you remember any special trips? My family never … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 13th December – Holiday Travel

Advent calendar of Christmas Memories: 11 December 2011: Christmas traditions from Bavaria in Queensland

12 December, 2011

Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did your immigrant ancestors have holiday traditions from their native country which they retained or perhaps abandoned? I’ve already spoken about my Melvin and McCorkindale ancestors and … More Advent calendar of Christmas Memories: 11 December 2011: Christmas traditions from Bavaria in Queensland

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 8th December – Christmas Cookies or Biscuits

8 December, 2011

Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did your family or ancestors make Christmas biscuits (cookies)? How did you help? Did you have a favourite biscuit? I think that the Christmas biscuit treat that … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 8th December – Christmas Cookies or Biscuits

Advent Calendar of Memories 2011: 7th December – Holiday parties

7 December, 2011

Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did your family throw a holiday party each year? Do you remember attending any holiday parties? My family have never been party people so no, we didn’t … More Advent Calendar of Memories 2011: 7th December – Holiday parties

Advent calendar of memories 2011: 5th December – Outdoor decorations

5 December, 2011

Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did people in your neighbourhood decorate with lights? Did some people really go “all out” when decorating? Any stories involving your ancestors and decorations? I don’t recall … More Advent calendar of memories 2011: 5th December – Outdoor decorations

Advent calendar of Christmas memories 2011: 4th December: Christmas Cards

4 December, 2011

Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did your family send cards? Did your family display the ones they received? Do you still send Christmas cards? Do you have any cards from your ancestors? … More Advent calendar of Christmas memories 2011: 4th December: Christmas Cards

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 3rd December – Christmas tree ornaments

3 December, 2011

Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did your family have heirloom or cherished ornaments? Did you ever string popcorn or cranberries? Did your family or ancestors make Christmas ornaments? We did have some … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 3rd December – Christmas tree ornaments

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 2nd December: Holiday Foods

2 December, 2011

Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Holiday Foods: Did your family or ancestors serve traditional dishes for the holidays? Was there one dish that was unusual? I think our Christmas holiday foods were … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 2nd December: Holiday Foods