(Also see: Family History)



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Have the girls practice filling out a pedigree chart when the lesson is over.  Challenge them to finish completing it at home.



I called each girl's mom and asked her to tell me something interesting about one of the families ancestors. Then we played "Who's Your Ancestor?" with the answers. I put the interesting facts on the chalkboard, such as "This girl's ancestor was hung as a witch in Salem" or "This girl's ancestor was an Indian Princess", one for each girl. Then the girls had to guess which of the other Young Women went with each fact. I let them work on it for a few minutes, without consulting each other, then we went through the facts on the board and wrote down the names the girls they thought were the one for that fact. Then we took a vote on which of them it was.  After we did that for each fact, we told them the correct answers and it was fun seeing how surprised the girls were at who went with who.  This might be too time consuming if you have a lot of girls; we did it with 10 and it went well. (Credit Unknown)



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One of my counselors contacted the girls' parents and asked that they, in secret, get an item to her that they had received/inherited/had had given to them from an ancestor, along with a description of how they came by the item, what it meant to them, or a story about the person to whom it once belonged. She then displayed all the items. It was really fun to see if they recognized anything from their own homes. Many of them didn't! Oh, and some of the parents also sent pictures of the people if they had them.  We had a variety of things displayed such as glassware, quilts, aprons, embroidered pillowcases, old photos, old money, lamps, jewelry and more, I 'm sure that I can't remember. I had two daughters of my own there, and they noticed things that came from our house, but they didn't realize where they had originally come from. Of course I did manage to mortify them by displaying a black & white photo of myself at age 5, (along with my pet dog), my father, my grandfather and my great-grandmother. My great grandfather had on his trademark overalls, and my granny was wearing one of her "house" dresses with a long apron. Since I had very blond hair, and my father is very tall with dark hair, we looked a lot like the Beverly Hillbillies! I love this picture, but my daughters weren't quite as appreciative! (Idea by Christi in Kentucky)
Turning Hearts with Family History (from 2006 BYU Women's Conference)
Why Keep Records?