Celebrate Women’s History month by taking a moment to record your own family’s women’s history. This post includes some great resources to get you started.
Are You Recording Your Family’s Women’s History?
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March is National Women’s History Month – the perfect time to take a moment to record your family’s women’s history. How much do you know about the sisters, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, great-aunts, and great-grandmothers in your own family?
Resources for Recording Your Family’s Women’s History
Are you interested in this project, but unsure of where or how to get started? Here are some great resources you can use to begin to record your family history.
- Find out what histories are already available. My maternal grandmother kept an extensive personal journal that is an amazing resource for learning her personal history.
- Have your kids interview grandma! Aunts and great-aunts and great-grandmothers are also wonderful resources for stories.
- Write your own history!
- Start with a photo. Find a photo featuring a woman in the family that looks interesting, then ask that woman to tell the story behind the photo.
- Record big events, but ask about little things as well. Often small details can reveal fun and educational stories.
- Help children draw connections between women’s lives in the past and current lives. How are things different? How are things the same? What aspect of their grandmother’s / mother’s / aunt’s life would they most like to experience themselves?
More Ways to Celebrate Women’s History Month
There are so many great ways to celebrate Women’s History Month! Here are a few resources from my sites:
Women's History Month Resources
Simple ways to celebrate Women's History Month at Home or in School
Are you recording your family’s women’s history? Do you have a resource that I should include in this post?
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MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
I am sad that I don’t know a lot about my family history beyond my grandparents. With wars and revolutions in the former Soviet Union, a lot of family history and photographs were lost. But I agree that it would be good to at least record what I know down, so my daughter knows where she is coming from.
I actually know more about my great great grandmother than I do any of the rest of my family because of that particular bit of family history being a mystery until I was 10 years old and writing a family history report. It was a cool story to learn (and was even on Unsolved Mysteries), but not a happy one.
We FINALLY recorded the grandmothers! But I think it’s on VHS tape so it needs to be converted to digital! What a great reminder!