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Family History Gifts

See Family History Gifts from restoring an old family photo to capturing family stories in a Family History Video!

Travel back in time and watch immigrants disembarking onto Ellis Island in this 1903 film by Thomas A. Edison, inc..

Remembering my grandmother, who lived through WWI & WWII, Women’s Suffrage, Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, and The Great Depression.

Grandparents Day comes on the first Sunday after Labor Day. Discover the history of Grandparents Day.

Labor Day is a holiday in September for cookouts & football. But what is the history of Labor Day in the US?

Travel back in time. See footage of Chicago in the 1930s. Elevated trains, street cars, the Loop, State Street, Michigan Avenue and more.

Remember when the milkman delivered milk in glass bottles, the mail carrier brought handwritten letters and gas station attendants pumped gas?

See the most popular 1930s radio shows. Do you recognize any? Do you know which ones were your parents or grandparents favorite?

Nearly 40% of all Americans can trace at least one ancestor to Ellis Island. Did you have a family member come through Ellis Island?

Did you know that T.V.s, cell phones and personal computers weren’t around in the 1930’s? What did our grandparents do for fun as children?