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What Your Favorite Genealogist Really Wants From Santa
Funny how a weekend that seemed endless when I woke up that first free day passed by so quickly. But it was nice and full: celebrating with friends and family, walking the dog (I was at home during daylight hours!) and finishing 85 percent of my Christmas shopping.With...
Funny how a weekend that seemed endless when I woke up that first free day passed by so quickly. But it was nice and full: celebrating with friends and family, walking the dog (I was at home during daylight hours!) and finishing 85 percent of my Christmas shopping.
With the onset of holiday shopping season, may we suggest these gifts for the family historian in your life:
- Annual or monthly membership to Ancestry.com, Footnote, World Vital Records, Genealogy Bank or another subscription site
- Family Tree Magazine tote bag (to take to the library), t-shirt or mug.
- Membership in a local genealogical society (do a Google search or see Society Hill for contact information)
- Registration for a genealogy workshop or conference (use Family Tree Magazine‘s online events calendar or contact a local genealogical society to find one)
- Family Tree Magazine CDs: State Research Guides; 2005, 2006 or 2007 annual compilation; or International Genealogy Passport
- Genealogy reference or how-to book such as the Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists
- Gift certificate to a Web site such as Snapfish or Shutterfly, where your favorite genealogist can turn old photos into photo books, collages, picture mugs, notecards and more
- a chauffered trip to a research repository or genealogy workshop, maybe with lunch (your treat)
- a day at a history museum
What’s on your genealogy wish list this year? Click Comments (below) to tell us (then slip your significant other the link to this post!).
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Valerie
As a christmas gift to myself, I splurged and got a mtDNA test!
Jack Cigkam
Don’t you want a MagicJack?
Dick Eastman, "technology expert" recommends it.
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/12/magicjack-never.html
Oops, he deleted his glowing recommendation.
But you can read it here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080127202442/http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/12/magicjack-never.html
Julie
I treated myself to early presents from the Genealogy Gifts store (http://www.cafepress.com/jmkbooks). Got a nice T-shirt, mouse pad, and notebook.
JK
There’s one thing I’d like that I probably won’t get (unless someone in my family or I win the lottery). I’d like to get a laptop to be able to take my genealogy research with me to the library and other places (like my room upstairs). Genealogy/family history is the only thing I’d put on the laptop. Even one of those little book-size computers that are selling at Target, the ones that are strictly for the internet or you can get one with XP, those are nice and they are all ready to surf.
Of course knocking down all my brick walls would be nice too. 🙂
LP
A gift that would be unbelievable is paid month expenses in Salt Lake City so I could bury myself in the Family Research Center. I mean if this is going to be a desired Christmas gift — that is one that just would be unbelievable. All of the suggestions on your site are excellent. But a full month of research there would be so unbelievably wonderful!!!!
Given that I won’t get that — renewal of my ancestry.com site would be first choice or just cover purchase of more research books/CDs/magazines, etc.