Genealogy has become increasingly intertwined with the internet. Now, there are classes you can take to learn how to set up your own genealogy blog. Once you have the blog, you are going to need to fill it with content. Now is a good time to collect up, and post, your family recipes that have been passed down through the generations.
Family recipes are special. They are comfort foods that evoke memories of the relative who originally made the dish as well as thoughts of the family events and celebrations that the food was served at. These are the recipes that are handed down from one generation to the next, (and the recipes aren’t always written down).
Traditional family recipes are important enough for the New York Times to be asking for them. Share your family recipe, along with a photo and a brief explanation of its origin. Tell the story of why this recipe is meaningful for you. The New York Times will feature a selection of the family recipes that were submitted online.
Your genealogy blog is an excellent place to start recording your family recipes. Obviously, you should blog about the specific details of the actual recipe. Take a nice photo of the dish and include it in your genealogy blog. You might already have a good photo of it when the food was served at a family celebration in the past.
Write some information about the relative who created that family recipe. Who was she? What circumstances occurred that inspired her to make this particular dish for the first time? You could write short stories about each of the family events that the dish was served at. Was this recipe great for birthdays, or was it the favorite food at family reunions?
Another interesting idea would be to create a video of the recipe as it is being made. If the relative who created this recipe is available, you could include her in the video. If not, then this is a great opportunity to make this favorite family recipe with one of your kids. When the video is done, and edited, make sure you add it to your genealogy blog post about the recipe it features.
You could do one, individual, multi-media blog post about each of the family recipes that are special to your family. If you come from a long line of ancestors whose recipes are still being made, and shared, today, this could result in a lot of interesting content for your genealogy blog. When you are all finished, you can easily turn the information into a self-published cookbook of family recipes. Copies of it would make great gifts!
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