Monday, January 4, 2016

Heritage Crafting Supplies

 
Brand: Craft Smart #409173

Found this tombstone rubber stamp in the bargain bin at our local Michaels Craft Store this afternoon. Must be a leftover from last Halloween. 

You'll have to copy and paste these brand names into your search engine to find their websites and/or YouTube Channels. Their product works beautifully for heritage scrapbooking. 

Brand: Highlander Celtic Stamps

Brand: Seven Gypsies

Brand: Kiwi Lane Scrapbooking

Brand: Tim Holtz Products

List Compiled by Dolores J. Rush, Updated: 4 May 2023.

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Ancestral Sayings for Crafts and Scrapbooking

  1. A birth certificate shows that you were born, a death certificate shows that you died, but a scrapbook shows that you lived.
  2. All in the Family
  3. A man is born with his relations; he picks out his friends for himself.
  4. Ancestors Activist
  5. Ancestors run in my family
  6. Ancestors R US
  7. Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples.
  8. Ask me about my ancestors!
  9. Beware! Genealogy Fever is Contagious!
  10. Blessed is the man who hears the gentle voices call him grandfather.
  11. Born to be an Ancestor!
  12. Clan Chronicler
  13. Days gone by.
  14. Every family is a history in itself and even a poem to those who know how to search its pages.
  15. Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
  16. Families are tied together with heart strings.
  17. Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at the people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. 
  18. Family History: A Neverending Story!
  19. Family Skeleton
  20. Finding my roots bit by bit
  21. Folk Finder
  22. Forebears & Heirs Genealogy’s Law = The one document you need to prove your ancestor’s line is lost due to fire, flood, or war!
  23. Genealogy: A Celebration of Heritage
  24. Genealogy: A Key to the Past.
  25. Genealogists are ancestrally challenged!
  26. Genealogists are into Relative Riches
  27. Genealogists are pioneers into the past!
  28. Genealogists are Time Travelers
  29. Genealogists are Tree Tracers.
  30. Genealogy is my cup of tea!
  31. Genealogy Detective
  32. Genealogy Fever: It's Inherited!
  33. Genealogy: Life in the Past Lane!
  34. Genealogists Haunt Cemeteries
  35. Genealogy is a Past-time.
  36. Genealogy -- Piecing together the Past
  37. Genealogists Invest in Family Bonds!
  38. Genealogists look for lost leaves.
  39. Gone Ficheing!
  40. Grandma's are antique little girls.
  41. Hangin’ with the Family.
  42. Have Roots, Will Travel
  43. Heritage Hunter
  44. =HEIR+MAIL=
  45. He who has the most surnames in the end "WINS!"
  46. How blessed I am, how fortunate I've been that you are my Daughter-in-law and also my friend!
  47. I'm the crazy aunt everyone warned you about
  48. In Loving Memory.
  49. It’s all in the Genes!
  50. Leaves of Time
  51. Love and laughter makes a happy family.
  52. Love the people God gave you because one day he’ll want them back.
  53. My family tree is full of nuts.
  54. My life in a nutshell.
  55. My Roots.
  56. One Big Happy Family.
  57. Our family is like fudge sweet with a few nuts in it.
  58. Our family is a patchwork of memories and love.
  59. So Many Ancestors, So Little Time!
  60. Success is relative. The more success, the more relatives!
  61. The best antiques are grandparents.
  62. There are many treasures in Grandma’s attic, but the old button box is my favorite.
  63. This is our branch of the family tree.
  64. This is what an awesome dad (brother, uncle, granddad) looks like!
  65. Treasured Times
  66. When A Child Is Born, So Is a Grandmother
  67. When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
  68. Years Gone By
  69. You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your relatives.
  70. You won’t make a place in the sun by sitting in the shade of the family tree.
See corresponding Descendant sayings here.

Compiled by Dolores J. Rush. Updated 4 May 2023. 

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Descendant Sayings for Crafts and Scrapbooking

  1. A Daughter (son) is a gift of Love
  2. Civil War Descendant
  3. Descendant of the American Revolution
  4. Granddaughters are forever . . . I'm so glad you're mine.
  5. Granddaughter, You are very dear to me. Please always journey life safely!
  6. How blessed I am, how fortunate I've been that you are my Daughter-in-law and also my friend!
  7. I'm the big brother.
  8. I smile because you're my sister. I laugh because there is nothing you can do about it
  9. Just Brothers -- You mess with him, you'll mess with me!
  10. Mom likes me best!
  11. My life in a nutshell.
  12. My sister has the best sister in the world!
  13. The kind of ancestors we have had – is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.
  14. Veteran Descendant
See corresponding Ancestral sayings here.

Compiled by Dolores J. Rush, updated 4 May 2023.

Friday, January 1, 2016

Short Quotes

A Cousin a Day Keeps the Boredom Away.
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“All true civilization is ninety percent heirlooms and memories—an accumulation of small but precious deposits left by the countless generations that have gone before us. ~ Robert I. Gannon. S.J.
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"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants."– Macauley.
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"A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture, is like a tree without roots." ~ Marcus Garvey
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"Back in the day, we were trained - as part of our professional ethics - that you don't destroy things. These (Confederate monuments) are all artifacts. They tell us something about the past. At my heart, I'm a scientist, which means telling the truth, warts and all." ~ Lawrence Kuznar, Professor of anthropology at Purdue University.
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“By the early nineteenth century, the naming of sons for preachers whom parents admired had become a common practice; the names “Dow” and “Linzie,” so common in Appalachia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, originated with the Methodist circuit riders Lorenzo Dow and Marcus Lindsay.” ~ John Sparks, The Roots of Appalachian Christianity.
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"Each tradition weaves its own colorful, thick-spun thread into the inimitable fabric of a family, strengthening it through." ~ Wendy Connelly
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"Family traditions mark time in a happy way and give a sense of both anticipation and continuity. Research shows that traditions, routines, and rituals boost physical and emotional health. And they're fun." ~ Gretchen Rubin
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Every time a person dies, a whole library of knowledge is lost.
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“Fortunes are amassed and dissipated: dynasties rise and pass away, but one’s name is yet safely transmitted from father to son—an inheritance of today from a remote, and otherwise unknown ancestry.” ~ Bowditch
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Gemstone Label: You, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house. 1 Peter 2:5a
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Home is where the heart is. ~ Pliny the Elder
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How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood when fond recollection presents them to view. ~ S. Woodworth.
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If a man cares not for his roots, how then can he care for his branches? ~ Doyle M. Davis
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If you don’t know your family’s history, you are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ~ Michael Chrichton
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I’ll note you in my book of memory. ~ William Shakespeare.
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Inheritance is priceless. Heritage is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. ~ Charles Dickens
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"Knowing our family history creates a sense of belonging. A deep connection to the past, and understanding how the past continues to influence us today." ~ Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Finding Your Roots.
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“Little grains of sand make the earth; little drops of water make the ocean, and little bits of genealogy make the history of the world.” ~ Alexander Brown.
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"Let's be a channel of blessing to all our family." ~ Rev. Daniel Daida
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“Man is but the sum of his ancestors.” ~ Emerson
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Memory is the guardian of all treasures. ~ Cicero
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No society is so precious as that of one's own family. ~ Thomas Jefferson.
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Parents should consciously organize the history of their family into a story of divine providence; they should not let the events of family history simply be lost or forgotten." ~ Kent & Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Family.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. ~ R. B. Sheridan, 1775.
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Remember always that all of us, you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionaries. ~ F. D. Roosevelt.
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Shotgun wedding - A case of wife or death.
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The joys I have possessed are ever mine; out of thy reach, behind eternity, hid in the sacred treasure of the past, but blest remembrance brings them hourly back. ~ John Dryden.
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There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings. ~ Hodding Carter, Jr.
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“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” ~ Edmund Burke or Winston Churchill.
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“Those who do not treasure the memory of their ancestors, do not deserve to be remembered by posterity.” ~ Edmund Burke.
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Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. ~ Joshua Loth Liebman
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"Unless you make notes as to the sources of your information they may not be available later for rechecking. Trust nothing to memory. Information that cannot be checked, compared or examined in the original will not bear much weight in genealogy. Be ready to back up all statements with the facts in black and white. Thus being able to check sources of information is one means of determining the accuracy or competence of a report." ~ Harry W. Mills, Mt. Sterling, KY. Advocate
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We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us. ~ Oliver Wendall Holmes
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We hold the firm conviction that family is ministry and that the most effective spread of the gospel occurs through family. We are also convinced that we were never more effective in evangelism then when we had children at home. ~ Kent & Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Family.
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What is research but a blind date with knowledge. ~ Will Henry.
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What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead give away.)
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"When parents and children cultivate traditions, every time they go back to that tradition it renews the emotional energy and bonding of the past." ~ Stephen Covey.
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Why pay money to have your family tree traced? Go into politics, and your opponents will do it for you. ~ Mark Twain.
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With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
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Without genealogy, the study of history is lifeless. ~ John Fiske
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"You might be a redneck if . . . your family tree does not fork and you view the upcoming family reunion as a chance to meet women." ~ Jeff Foxworthy.