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Heritage to me means a blast from the past. It is the ablity to see and compare the past with today. Thank God for digital photography. There is no reason for us not to capture today for tomorrow. With things evolving as quickly as they are, we can step outside our comfort zone and photograph our environment. I consider this a part of my heritage. I can barely remember Shreveport without the casino hotels. Tallest hotel was 3 stories before the casino hotels. Shopping areas that were cotton fields; Interstate highway that was just wooded areas. So I guess heritage is a form of history.

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There are tangible items, photographs, pieces of jewellery, ornaments and such like that are passed on from generation to generation, there are traditions memories and stories which, all together, form your heritage. All these things need to be preserved for as long as possible, once they are gone they are gone and sometimes it's too late before you realise how important family history is.

DH and I each have our own heritage but those in turn are joining together to create a new heritage for our kids. Take a close look at yourself in a mirror and you see the likenesses between you and your parents, look at your children and see family characteristics emerge as they grow. So to me this is heritage too, a time when past meets present and becomes now, constantly growing and changing because what I do today affects what happens tomorrow

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Heritage, for me, is a collection of items, actions, and ideas that were somehow saved from the past that represent a collective memory of how I got here and came to be where I am, through my ancestors or the ancestors of others who have influenced my life. It's so broad, just about anything that has influenced me or the most important people in my life can be a part of that collective influence. I think the most important parts of that meaning come from it being collective and from its shaping on my life and lives to come. Taking time to highlight, remember, and document heritage are important ways to allow someone the gift of finding the roots of so many different parts of their lives. Scrapbooking, even when done in the moment as I tend to do it, is a crucial way to record heritage, especially in this day when what is modern is normally what is most highlighted and revered. We must never forget that we are standing on the shoulders of giants.

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Heritage is the stories of my family, all of them, whether lovable or not, whether they love me or not, young, old, infirmed (mind or body). Almost all of my scrapping, no matter what it looks like, is heritage scrapping. If it's not a story about my family or me, including extendeds and add-ons, for me it's almost not worth scrapping.

Hummie, i think your paper about this was great, especially the questions at the end. I will use them for prompts in future LOs.

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Heritage means to me those who went before me and sacrificed and worked to give me the opportunities I have. It means living up to the opportunities they gave me and greeting them again in the next life with pride and the knowledge that I did nothing to tarnish or diminish their efforts and names. it means a worthy gift from the Lord that I need to embrace as mine and make of it the best I can.

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To me heritage means my roots, where my family came from, where they lived and who they were. I know very little about my heritage from my Fathers side, and only a little from my mothers side. When I was young, if I asked family about their family, they would just say "the pasts the past, its not important". Such a shame. I have gathered what information I could and I will pass it on to my children, who I hope will be more interested than my antecedents.

As I said I know very little really, and have a mere handful of photos of family. Most of what I had was destroyed in a cyclone (hurricane), not that I ever had very much.

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I am a family historian of sorts. I have been researching family roots since 2004. My heritage, or family tree, consists of Danish, English, and German ancestors. I consider them all to be pioneers. I have Mormon pioneer heritage, too. So what does heritage mean to me? Because of strong and faithful ancestors I am able to live in a free country (I have Pilgrim ancestors), worship how I want, and live wherever I want. The heritage (the things I have inherited) they left me is not to be taken lightly. I must do all I can to preserve freedoms for my family and to give them an untarnished name (at least my husband's name!). I have a responsibility to preserve memories of them and me for future generations.

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Heritage, to me, is family traditions and remembering the ones we have lost. In my family, most all I have are the ones we have lost. I don't have living parents and most of my grandparents are gone as well. So passing on my 'heritage' to my children is talking about my parents and grandparents and even aunts and uncles with them. Also, continuing the family traditions that I loved the most growing up is important to me. Heritage is also, in my opinion, about making new traditions with your kids because these new traditions are what they will carry with them all their lives, and hopefully they will be good memories and something they will want to share with their kids. (Nice run on sentence!) And heritage is also in the very few things that I have that belonged to my mother and grandmother. My granny is still alive and she has been sending me her Christmas house that she used to put up at Christmas. I expressed an interest in them about 10 years ago and I'm the only grandchild or greatgrandchild out of the 24 or so to have done, so she has been sending them to me over the last year or so. I will always remember they were hers, I plan on writing on the bottoms of the houses where they came from when I decorate this year. Now, I have houses that were mine, my moms, and my granny's. To me, that is heritage. Someday I will have enough to split them up between my three kids and their families.

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To me, Heritage means family, especially the people that came before me: my parents, grandparents, etc. It can also apply to the heritage I plan to pass on to my children, grandchildren, Etc. Heritage is one generation passing on to the next the things that they value. This is not only personal items such as a grandmother's handkerchief or a piece of jewelry, but the life's values such as belief in God and the Bible. Another way of providing a heritage is through the photos we take. That is why I love to scrapbook. It is a way to visually remember those that came before us as well as show the many blessings of our own lives, such as the birth of our children and the wonderful things they have done as they've grown. Heritage is a way of showing love to the past as well as the future.

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jldream you said it so much better than I did!

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Wow - I totally agree with you. In fact, that last statement is very profound: preserving our heritage is a way of showing love to the past as well as the future!!!

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This is a sad topic for me because my mother died about 3 years ago and my Dad can no longer speak. My grandparents are all long gone. There are very few photos and most are not in my possession yet, if ever. I have decided to research into the history of my family so that I have some facts to remember and pass down to my children and grandchildren. So...to me the heritage most tangible is that of my childhood. I do have some photos of myself and my brothers and sister growing up. They are meaningful memories of a time gone by. I love the "snapshot" feel of most of the photos. They seem the most true to the way things were than studio portraits. I have a box of photos that needs going through again and I believe there are a couple of photos of my childrens' father's grandparents that I would love to scrap for the kids. And though my parents preferred to focus on us kids, they did share a few stories from their childhood. I want to create some journaling pages to preserve those stories. Heritage means, to me, something to hang on to that tells us where we came from and who we are. It consists of our memories and the memories that are told to us in the form of stories and photos.

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Thank you, Hummie, for your thoughts on your heritage and what it does and can mean to us all. It ocurred to me while I was reading that, since I don't know a great deal about my own family history, that getting to know myself probably tells me something about those that came before me. For example, the fact that I enjoy creative things, art, writing and such, I likely share with some of my ancestors. I also love that you give importance to preserving your own life and stories. So that is what I will do.

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Heritage is the path that leads to who I am now and where I started. Up until the past few years, I was somewhat aware of my ancestors, but now I am curious. My mother holds precious memories that I encourage her to share because once she is gone, there is no one left that 'remembers'. I love listening to my mom recall the stories of the past and try to preserve those memories in writings and photos (when I can find them) for future generations. There is no one left to 'listen' to from my father's side of the family. I have started following the trail left behind from my mother and father's families. The Internet is a great asset to all of us who want to know more. Heritage is recognizing that you are part of a long line of people who lived and breathed, hoped and feared and worked hard so that I could be writing this to you today.

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Heritage is a family classroom where you can learn not just about your anscestors but what made them who they were, why some things they did failed or suceeded. Its a connection to the past that can help your present and future. Heritage is more than stories and a list of whose related to whom...but its a picture that lets you see why your tall or short, have a certain eye color or temperment. ( I take after grandma eg). Its wonderful to trace your history back and learn from it and teach the next generation from it as well.
I didn't know any of my grandparents except for my maternal grandmother. I have no pictures of anyone except for mom. I don't even have a pic of dad.....or my aunts or uncles.
So like Jeanette said.....we can start new traditions and make our heritage begin with us.

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Heritage is what I leave behind for my family and what my family and my husband's family left behind for me - photos, written words, stories.

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Heritage to me means family and my world around me such as family, friends, traditions. It's what scrapbooking is to me.

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My heritage is the person I have become because of the people who came before me. I am a member of a family, and a citizen of a community, state and country, and all those things contribute to my heritage. EDIT: I enjoyed reading your article ... and I need to add to my list of things that contribute to my heritage. I am a member of a church, Immanuel Lutheran in Killeen, TX. My paternal great grandfather immigrated to America as a Lutheran missionary headed for Texas when he and his young wife arrived at Ellis Island from Germany in October 1872! He began the work of the church in Killeen as a shared minister with another congregation 60 miles away, and as a full time farmer. My maternal grandfather became the first full time minister in that same church in 1946. I was raised there, and along with my Dad's family am still a member of that same congregation! I have recorded much of the heritage of our congregation and presented a PowerPoint presentation at the congregation's 115 anniversary celebration in 2004! It was a FAMILY history as well as a church history project!

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Heritage

Family - past, present, and future.
All that we have been,
That we are,
Or will be.
The sum of many
Parts,
Influences, and
Beliefs.
Strong,
Inescapable.

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ahhhh Heritage, one of my favorite hobbies. I enjoy researching and learning where my ancesters lived, & what they did for a living. I've made a family tree so I can pass this onto to my children & all the stories I have heard so they can to pass this onto their children. Heritage is where we come from & keeping the memories alive so they are never forgotten. I do not have photo's of my past generations & this is why I started scrapping so I can give something for my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren...& so on, to pass on & keep our memories recorded in some way.

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