A Treasure

My amazing Aunt Marilyn Myers (my Grandpa Park's sister) has done a lot of work on genealogy and has shared it with all of us. She makes sure everyone gets CDs and books of everything she has. It's the most amazing treasure and a very generous gift of her time and talents. I've been able to receive a few CDs and books but most go to her brothers and sisters and their children (including my grandpa and my mom). This week I borrowed all of my grandpa's CDs and loaded them onto my computer. It's been fun looking through everything.

Here is a very small sample of what I found. How cool is this?



This is a picture of my Great Grandma Park. Isn't she beautiful?



This picture makes me laugh. It totally reminds me of Kiddie Kandids. The photographer could have been rich off this idea.



I think these pictures are precious. So often everyone looks so serious in the old pictures. I just loved seeing this tender picture of this mother and baby. The one of the girls with the dolls is adorable too. My cute little girl would have been so happy playing with them.



About 6 years or so ago I made my aunt Marilyn a scrapbook album. Not the scrapbook, just the album. Marilyn couldn't have made me feel better because she created an entire scrapbook for that album and scanned in copies of it for everyone. Her scrapbook is INCREDIBLE! Here are a few pictures from that album.

This is the cover I made. I just started a challenge based on this on my website. Click here for info.



This is the inside cover:



Here are a few of Marilyn's pages:









Isn't Marilyn incredible? She is so generous and I'm so grateful that I get to benefit from her kindness. My Grandpa Thorup is very involved with family history too. He's given me some really neat books he's put together too. I will have to share them another time. He even helped me with my wedding scrapbook. So cool!!

My Grandma Park also put together a neat book I've really enjoyed reading today. It's called, "My Heritage" and is subtitled, "This is what makes me who I am". She put together single page histories of her parents and grandparents back to the early 1800's. It's really easy to read which makes it fun. If any of you are interested putting together a history book I really recommend my grandma's format. It starts with a letter from her, then a pedigree chart. Next comes all of the single page histories she wrote with each couple's accompanying family group chart. Each history has a picture. It's really cool. The oldest histories are combined between couples on a single page.