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Heritage means memories of days gone by. Heritage means seeing how others lived long before I lived and preserving that for future generations. Heritage means keeping in touch with the past. Heritage is a walk down memory lane.

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Heritage is my past. My family, my history, my memories, those people around me their recollections and stories that I have been told by family members past and others.

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Heritage to me is what I grew up knowing about my family and it's past. Since I never knew my grandparents, it was almost entirely about where I grew up in New England. The exception was the genealogy book we had of my maternal grandmother's family, who were Scottish in roots. I read that book avidly growing up, and even went to a clan reunion with my mother. Consequently, I grew up with a strong feeling for my Scottish roots, even though that was a small part of my family past. I have since learned that my paternal grandfather, who I thought was of English origins, was entirely descended from the French and German settlers of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In spite of that, I struggle to feel any links with the Germans or French. But I still find it fascinating how history, personal beliefs, and family circumstances led to my parents meeting and marrying and me being born where I was.

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Heritage means to look back at our ancestors, because everything we are today is a collection of all the people who came before us. That's why I love capturing the moments that convey our essence.

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Wow, Hummie - so well thought out and said!

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heritage to me is all about those precious stories about past generations in my family, I want to record them for my children before they are lost for ever.

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I know heritage means different things to different people, but to me the first thing that comes to mind is anything that happened to previous generations, however small and apparently insignificant. It can be the tiniest glimpse of anything that has happened in the past, as everything influences what and who we are today. Though really it means anything that has happened before the immediate moment, because that will become the heritage moments of tomorrow.

I am off to read your ideas now Hummie, I bet they will show things in a completely different and obvious way, that I would never think of, but are so relivant to us today.

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Just read it, and it is brilliant Hummie. All of the things you say are so true, and you have a brilliant way of putting them. I wish I could think like you do, hope you don't mind if I keep a copy of the article to refer to. Some of the things I know I do, I see so much of my Grandad in my youngest daughter it isn't true, from her character to the way she sits in a chair (always cross legged like a young child, and she is 18. My Grandad used to sit in any chair in exactly the same way until the day he died), even some of the things she says. She never knew him, he died many years before she was born, but I have always said 'he lives in her' in almost every way.

Thank you so much for giving me some inspiration this afternoon

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Heritage.....hmmmm My mind immediately goes to my family that I have known through the years that are now with Jesus. I was so fortunate to have such amazing men and women in my life who were such outstanding examples to me of allowing others to see Christ in them! I love to sit back and think about my grandmother most of all. She and I connected in so many ways and the memories of her and I making cookies or doing a sewing project or swinging on the front porch is so comforting.

I guess others may think of a family tree, which unfortunately for me, I haven't had the interest of researching yet. I'm sure the time will come when I will want to know, but for now, I'm very satisfied in remembering those close to me.

I love to honor my grandmother and other memories of my family with beautiful pages that represent their beauty.

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It means knowing my family history.

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Heritage to me means your family history and a piece of who you are. There are so many resources out there now that you can find out so much about your heritage. To me it shows how to preserve the memories of your ancestors.

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Not a lot. I come from a family who took very few photos. Both my grandfathers were dead before I was born and both grandmothers before I was seven so I have few memories of them and no photos at all. I love seeing what wonderful records and memories are held by other people. Perhaps my generation (74 next week) had less chances to keep records and take photos in the forties and fifties during the war and postwar or, maybe they were just not that way inclined. Hummie, I find it wonderful that heritage means so much to you and that you have great photos of your boys through all their younger years and your older family members. Do hope they appreciate all the work you put in for them.
Cheers Eileen

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Preserving the past for the next generation and giving a feeling of "roots".

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In a nutshell: for me, heritage is what people who have gone before have left behind - intentionally or unintentionally. It might be buildings, achievements, creations, people, letters, photos, laws, ways of living - just about anything that gives us a window into the past. Could be yesterday, last century, or in the Dark Ages! It's there whether we like it or not.

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Heritage is who I am, who the people are that came before me and who the people are that will come after me. It's not just family... it's everything about me, my life, and what I did. In short, it's everything that I am... past, present, and future.

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heritage to me means the people who have gone before, within my family. Not just the people, but the lives they led and the experiences they had.

Like a lot of other people I suppose, I have old old family photos and no idea who the people are. Or even if we do know their names, we have no idea of their actual lives...what they did for a living, what their hobbies (if they had time or energy for that!) were etc etc.

My DDs have both discovered a love of riding horses, and my eldest inparticular seems to have a real affinity with horses and loves to help correct bad habits in them or ride young, inexperienced horses and bring them on. It's so much more than a learned skill IYKWIM! Neither my DH nor I have ever ridden, and being so close to such large animals does not fill ME with joy, LOL, (although I am getting braver, depending on the horse, LOL). My parents have never been around horses either. So I always wondered where this particular vocation came from.
Then we found some old old photos of my great grandfather, and he was leading a horse that he used for work. It's a little hint that people before the living generations were comfortable around horses!
This is the aspect of heritage that I find fascinating - it's like a tiny glimpse into your past and a link to past generations!

So now I like to do LOs not just about the big events in our family, but about the everyday things as well, or just about nothing inparticular, but which show eg. flowers that are around now, or just how the children are looking at a given age....or even just pieces of art for their own sake which please my eye and maybe show a little of what I'm like, seeing that I feature in so few photos, LOL!!!

Bernie x

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Heritage is the key to who I am based on those who came before me. Heritage is what I am giving to my current generation and passing on the treasures that had been discovered in the past in the form of family. Ever single current living relative has heard and learned about their heritage and to take it seriously in preserving the legacies that have been passed down and passed onward.

Each new generation is brought up on the same principles that came before, to love God and one another, to be a blessing whenever possible, to forgive at all times and to strive to do your best, even when you are not considered the best and to not be ashamed when you fail.

I try to capture the beauty that is around me in my layouts. My layouts shows my family who they are and where they come from. They have a rich ethnic heritage of all nationalities running in their veins, and therefore not one of them can ever be prejudiced against another because of race. We are a blessed family and I hope to depict this for them and to leave them a wonderful pictorial heritage.

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Heritage is my family and the memories and stories passed down from one generation to the next. I hope to keep some of those memories and stories alive in the heritage album I am working on to give to my children.

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Heritage means where I have come from, who I come from, things I have learned, stories I have heard from relatives...things passed from generation to generation whether by story or physically like a quilt. It also means what I and my husband do today becomes my son's heritage. What we teach him, where he comes from, etc...Loved ones we might never have known, loved ones we have lost, loved ones we still have with us we can make memories with. Heritage is memories, I guess, ones we are making and ones we are saving.

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