If you have a passion for cooking, enjoy it to the last bite. However you express it: friends over for dinner; chef in a restaurant; assembling a cookbook; your own catering business: which ever way you find to express your passion for cooking, do your thing, enjoy what you love.
This advice is not as easy to follow as it sounds. Take genealogy, for instance (well, of course). There are nearly as many ways to follow your genealogy passion as their are genealogists. You could:
- volunteer at the local genealogy society
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- make a family tree scrapbook for your grandchildren
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- organize a family reunion
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- collect old family photographs and curate them
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- travel around the country interviewing cousins and grandparents for a 'Who's Who in the Smith Family"
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- watch episodes of "Who Do You Think You Are?"
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- take genealogy courses
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- create your family tree on a website and share it with relatives
Any or all of the above would express a passion for genealogy.
The question is: what particular activities do you enjoy most or are best at doing (frequently the same thing). After four months exploring WikiTree, I have discovered some things I enjoy most, and other things I am not so very good at doing. Fortunately, there are others who have different tastes and different talents, so it all gets covered.
Specifically, I have found I most like the focused, quiet, scholarly activities which go into creating a well-documented biography of an ancestor. Visit my grandfather's profile, Kustaa Heikkila at WikiTree.
It is free for everyone all the time - you can join and add your grandparents to our tree.
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