Now that Christmas is over and everyone has received and opened their gifts, I can post the project that I completed and sent to a number of my family members!I got the idea from Family Tree Magazine and it looked like something that would be perfect, especially given that I’m currently working on the family tree.

The Family Tree Puzzle is on 8 2″ blocks.  A total of 12 pictures, each cut into quarters and glued on the sides of the blocks.  When I sent it out, it was jumbled into pieces, my theory being that family members would want to put it together!

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I’ve been doing quite a bit of genealogy work recently, gathering up family documents and entering them into my new Family Tree Maker software.  Genealogy and documenting my family tree is something I’ve been working on for years and now I finally feel like I’m getting a handle on it.
In doing some research on-line yesterday, I came across this poem I’d like to share.  Fit’s me to a tee!

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