Bloggy Giveaway #2

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Bloggy Giveaway #2

January 27, 2009 by Barbara H.

Comments are now closed. The winner is Audra at Audra’s Little Scraps. Congratulations! I’ll be contacting you in just a moment.

If you’re not aware of the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival, go to Bloggy Giveaways this week and look around. There are always giveaways going on over there, but during the carnival this week bloggers from all over are giving away various items, from books to gift cards to chocolate and all kinds of things. At this writing there are over 1,000 giveaways already listed.

My second giveaway this week is a family heritage book.

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There are pages of writing prompts:

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There are all types of topics to cover: where the family came from (and a map to mark it), information about the family name, family lore and legends, family celebrations — just about anything you could think of concerning your family heritage as well as a few blank pages for anything else you’d like to cover.

There is a fold-out section to fill in a family tree:

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There are pockets in the back for a CD (they suggest recording interviews with older family members) and for documents. There are pages for pictures and optional scrapbooking pages scattered throughout.

In short, this book contains just about everything you would need to record your family heritage and create a family heirloom.

If you are interested, just leave a comment on this post. You don’t have to have a blog — just be sure to put your e-mail address in the space provided so I have a way to contact you. I am willing to ship anywhere. I will draw a name using a random generator on Saturday morning.

Just a note of clarification: The genealogy part is only a couple of pages and only goes back a couple of generations. It’s not the main part of the book, just one small section. Most of the book is writing prompts about various aspects of family life and heritage. Just wanted to be clear — some of the comments seemed to indicate some thought the geology was a major portion or went back several generations.

Posted in Contests and Giveaways | 53 Comments

53 Responses

on January 27, 2009 at 9:51 am Sandy

Barbara,
Thank you for visiting and for your sweet comment. I have a book very similar to the one in your give away and love it. Wow, that is a lot of generosity going on in blog land! I am planning a give away soon so drop over in the next day or tow for details!
on January 27, 2009 at 10:11 am Sally

I’m interested in this book.

smilingsal55 AT yahoo DOT com
on January 27, 2009 at 10:15 am CanCan (Mom Most Traveled)

My husband would love this. He has really researched our geneology but hasn’t had a way to display it. We live overseas.
Thanks for this great giveaway.
on January 27, 2009 at 10:34 am Annie Luidhardt

I really love your blog! What a wonderful woman of God you are! I love family histories and passing on a Godly hertiage! Thanks for the chance to win it!
on January 27, 2009 at 10:45 am Shelby Barone

Hi!
I would love this to track the heritage of my two adopted children. This is such a beautiful way to track their geneology! Thanks for this great giveaway!!

Bigmacmom@cox.net
http://www.glitterfulfeltstories.blogspot.com
on January 27, 2009 at 11:07 am melli

I have never entered a bloggy give-a-way — but this looks very interesting and I think one of my kids might enjoy doing it… The one who has recently started a family! So enter me!
on January 27, 2009 at 12:05 pm Rebecca

My son would LOVE that! He’s our history buff
on January 27, 2009 at 12:17 pm S.B.

I love stuff like this – enjoy preserving history!
on January 27, 2009 at 12:38 pm jen

looks real nice please put me in your draw
on January 27, 2009 at 1:14 pm texasheartland

I have been trying to get a family tree going but so far, it’s all rapidly written in a notebook and so unorganized. Oh how this will help so much!

texas_heartland84[at]yahoo[dot]com
on January 27, 2009 at 1:38 pm Amber S.

I’m currently working on our genealogy, so this would be a wonderful thing to have. Thank you for the lovely giveaway!
mommyof3inva(at)yahoo(dot)com
on January 27, 2009 at 3:26 pm Kelly S.

I’m working on putting together a life book for my adopted son. One of the books I’ve been eyeing is similar to this one. (The cover of this one is gorgeous though!)

One of my regrets in life is that I didn’t ask more questions of my great-grandparents, grandparents, and father before they died. I always thought I would have plenty of time to ask my dad, but he died at age 55 from a brain tumor that took away his speech and memories. I only wish I had a few more days and the appreciation of the past that I have now.

Kelly in Ohio
on January 27, 2009 at 4:02 pm AmandaK

I just started getting back into genealogy and this would be helpful!!!

orchestratenoise0726[at]yahoo[dot]com
on January 27, 2009 at 5:19 pm billie

this is sooo cool! i just had a baby and would love to use this to get our history down for her. Hope I win! ^_^
on January 27, 2009 at 6:29 pm lisa

Please enter me. I’d like to do this for my kiddos.
lisa
iluvchrisnlevi@aol.com
on January 27, 2009 at 8:24 pm Lisa

I love doing genealogy. But I do not have it organized. This would be great.
on January 27, 2009 at 8:30 pm mindy

this would give me just the push i need thanks for the giveaway
on January 27, 2009 at 10:13 pm Stacy

What a grea idea. Thanks for the giveaway.
on January 27, 2009 at 11:16 pm Just Jenn

That looks really neat! I would love to start this for my kids! Thanks for the chance! Jenn

zonie_chick81@hotmail.com

I have tons of giveaways going on over at my blog feel free to visit!
on January 28, 2009 at 4:30 am sherry gibbs

Wow I love your book. It would be so perfect for my newly married daughter since I am at the age where I am starting to forget a lot about my grandparents….even if I dont win Thanks for giving me the idea for her!

sgibbs58(at)aol(dot)com
on January 28, 2009 at 9:59 am Cecile

I love family history! This book would be great.
on January 28, 2009 at 12:21 pm Jenny

DH and I each have adopted folks in our family. I’d really love to piece together the family history, as best we can, and pass it along.

Thanks for sharing this!
on January 28, 2009 at 3:06 pm Lauralee Hensley

I’d love to win this. Just in December, I finished family history research for my step-son. I have his and of course my husband’s, paternal family tree traced all the way back to the 1600′s when a member of the family was kicked out of Englandfor taking up arms against King Charles (I think) and his over taxation of non-royalty landholders. We gave this info, all typed up nicely to him as one of his Christmas presents. Yet putting this info in a nice book, would be a sweet gift to give to my husband’s father. I hope soon I can research my husband’s grandmother’s family. There are some people in the family who believe she descended from Benjamin Franklin. I even found info on how my husband’s paternal family befriended Indian Chief Parker, even though some of the family was killed by this same tribe earlier on. I found it all very interesting. It was very time consuming though. Through all this research I found that my husband may in some way be related to my best girlfriend’s husband, and we even go to the same church. If there is a link (and I think there probably is) it didn’t happen in the state where all of us reside now, but either in Texas or New Mexico. I guess we are all God’s children and are really related at some point. Good luck to all.
on January 28, 2009 at 3:09 pm Shirley Bishop

This would be a wonderful book to keep track of family history.
on January 28, 2009 at 3:33 pm Jason

I have always wanted to map my family out and trace all of our roots.
on January 28, 2009 at 5:36 pm Cheryl F

This is nice, I would love to have this. I’ve got lots of family info store on the pc and this would be great to put it in.
on January 28, 2009 at 6:37 pm Patricia C

This is a very unique book. I’ve never seen anything like this.
on January 28, 2009 at 10:30 pm Betty King

Being the History Buff and Family Geneologist in our family I would love and use this book just for me. Thank you for being so generous to be giving it away to one of us lucky special people.
on January 28, 2009 at 11:16 pm Becky

I love to win this book. I keep a family tree online, but would love a hard copy to share with family!
ndair4ce@cox.net
on January 29, 2009 at 12:39 am Belinda P

We would love to have this for our family history. My husband already has a lot of information on his family tree. I need to work on mine more.Thanks for the great giveaway!

hottmomma_03(at)yahoo(dot)com
on January 29, 2009 at 2:25 am Janet F

Thank you!

janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com
on January 29, 2009 at 8:17 am Chantelle

What a great prize! Thanks for sharing.
chantellesabino at mac dot com
on January 29, 2009 at 8:58 am Jody

I would love to win this and give it to my grandmother. She is the family historian right now- a “job” I look forward to taking over from her in the (not so near, I hope) future.

JLHalsted(ta)hotmail(tod)com
on January 29, 2009 at 11:36 am World's Greatest Mommy

What a great idea! I need to interview those people, and it’s a lovely book.
on January 29, 2009 at 11:49 am Shilo Beedy

I would love this book for my mom who does all the famil tree stuff.
on January 29, 2009 at 12:00 pm Shannon

Oh I would love to have this and have it to pass down in the family!
palmersf(at)bellsouth.net
on January 29, 2009 at 12:47 pm Audra

What a neat item- My grandfather a WWII veteran recently died and although we did get some stories down we are just starting to realize how much we missed! I am really motivated now to document stories and more from my remaining family.

Thanks so much for the awesome give-oh-way! audrajjensen(at)msn(dot)com
on January 29, 2009 at 3:36 pm Deborah

Oh, yes! I love discovering my ancestry!

Deborah @ Comfort Joy Designs
comfortjoydesigns.blogspot.com
comfortjoydesigns{AT}gmail{DOT}com
on January 29, 2009 at 6:25 pm Sweetpeas

What a great family heirloom for future generations, I’d love to win this!
on January 29, 2009 at 8:24 pm Audrey

I would love a place to keep the various things we’ve discovered over the years.
on January 30, 2009 at 12:54 am frugalplus

This is such a precious family heirloom, to be passed down!

Thanks for such a Thoughtful Giveaway
on January 30, 2009 at 1:31 am ryann

I think this would be great for my daughter
on January 30, 2009 at 9:47 am Nicole

My Mother in law would love this book. Thanks!
on January 30, 2009 at 10:39 am gahome2mom

I am really into genealogy research. This prize is right up my alley. Thanks.

gahome2mom(at)gmail(dot)com
http://lovingheartdesigns.blogspot.com/
on January 30, 2009 at 12:56 pm Terra Heck

This would be a great keepsake to have. Thanks.
on January 30, 2009 at 1:35 pm Stacie V

I have wanted a book like this for awhile.
on January 30, 2009 at 2:08 pm Noreen

this would be great to get started on recording my husbands side of the family for my girls
on January 30, 2009 at 2:50 pm Wendy

I would love something like this! My grandpa passed away in November. He was the last of that generation and it made me realize the importance of getting things down. I want to make sure my children have more of those memories than I’m left with.

Thanks for the chance!
on January 30, 2009 at 3:16 pm Miranda Allen

I love researching my family history

freebiegoddess03@aol.com
on January 30, 2009 at 5:21 pm michelle rosborough

I’d love to give this to my dad
on January 30, 2009 at 10:23 pm Jewel

Wow, Barbara! I’m glad I finally made it to your blog so I can enter to WIN this wonderful prize! Enter me, please!!
on January 31, 2009 at 4:27 am Rondah

This is a really awesome book. I would love to win it to pass down to my grandson some day
zachsgran1 at yahoo dot com
on January 31, 2009 at 4:28 am Tanya

I really like this book, I have never seen one like it. Thanks for the great giveaway!!!
tmc480 at yahoo dot com