Grandpa, Tell Me Your Memories

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Summary: Genealogist's Delight
Review: Anyone working on their family history will delight in this book. It presents questions to be answered by Grandpa for every day of the year. When the questions are all answered, the family historian will have a wealth of information for research and hundreds of anecdotes for the family tree. At the next family reunion encourage everyone to buy and complete the appropriate book in the series for themselves and let the historian add it to the tree..

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Summary: Revisiting Yourself
Review: Grandpa Tell Us Your Memories is a small ring bound book (perfect for little hands to hold)set up in calendar fashion with one question for each day of the year. Bob and I combined this book with 'Grandma, Tell Me Your Memories' and every morning over coffee we would review and fill in responses for one question. Not only did we have the personal pleasure of revisiting our lives as children, as young adults, as parents etc, but we had the added benefit of getting to know one another better and strengthening our marriage. Being vulnerable to each other, sharing occasional tears and lots of laughter was an unanticipated gift. Best of all your children and grandchildren are left with the beginnings of a legacy. They will follow up with their own questions - and there you are: off and running. Let me add that each book is perfectly suited for single grandparents too.

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Summary: Revisiting Yourself
Review: Grandpa Tell Us Your Memories is a small ring bound book (perfect for little hands to hold)set up in calendar fashion with one question for each day of the year. Bob and I combined this book with 'Grandma, Tell Me Your Memories' and every morning over coffee we would review and fill in responses for one question. Not only did we have the personal pleasure of revisiting our lives as children, as young adults, as parents etc, but we had the added benefit of getting to know one another better and strengthening our marriage. Being vulnerable to each other, sharing occasional tears and lots of laughter was an unanticipated gift. Best of all your children and grandchildren are left with the beginnings of a legacy. They will follow up with their own questions - and there you are: off and running. Let me add that each book is perfectly suited for single grandparents too.

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Summary: Priceless
Review: I bought this for my grandparents years ago (this one and the grandma one). Grandpa has now passed away, and the memories and stories are invaluable to me now. My whole family of parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and even my children are now lucky enough to have all of their memories written down for us.

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Summary: Priceless
Review: I bought this for my grandparents years ago (this one and the grandma one). Grandpa has now passed away, and the memories and stories are invaluable to me now. My whole family of parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and even my children are now lucky enough to have all of their memories written down for us.

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Summary: More fun than twenty parties.
Review: When I saw the Grandpa, Tell Me Your Memories, book as a birthday gift, I was thrilled. I'd been planning to write my autobiography, and this gave me a huge launch. I'd never thought of many of the terrific questions and topics to write about, so, thank you author, Kathleen Lashier. To put it mildly, I've had to do more research than I did in college, but it was a blast! I had remembered events, people and numbers incorrectly all of my 64 years. Oops! Now, thanks to Kathleen, I'm straightened out. The author's page layout says to write on one topic per day for a year. Sure, not me. It took about two months. I was so excited! Kathleen's book is a marvelous tool to preserve our heritage for those we care about the most. That heritage includes one's own spiritual roots, mine being Christian. My main suggestion is to put the questions in chronological order, birth to the present. We also typed it up and added photos, so our kids could have copies. THANKS AGAIN, KATHLEEN!