How did you, your family or your ancestors spend Christmas Eve? Christmas Eve is an interesting day because depending on which day it falls can affect what happens for much of the day. Unless Christmas was on a Sunday, Christmas Eve has usually been spent at work and as this was a peak admin workload … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 24th December – Christmas Eve
Did your family visit the cemetery at Christmas? How did your family honour deceased family members at Christmas? Our family didn’t visit the cemetery at Christmas nor was any mention made of family members who died around this time. I guess when family members die at this time, the ones remaining just want to reflect … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 22nd December 2011 – Christmas and Deceased Relatives
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: 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.
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
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 have a real tree or was it artificial? How big was the tree? Who decorated the tree? What types of Christmas trees did your ancestors … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 1st December: The Christmas Tree
Family history across the seas 