Planning a family reunion is no small feat and you are totally up for the challenge! We’ve already discussed items from Phase One: items to be determined prior to planning the actual event. Now we’ll dive into Phase Two: Planning the event itself! NOTE: We just released such a guide to help with the planning […]

In 2012, my mom said, “I’m so glad you moved here. Now you can help plan the family reunion!” Say What?! I don’t know the very first thing about planning a family reunion, but Google might. Unfortunately…Google knew very little about actually planning a reunion. All it knew was surface high level…thanks for nothin’! The […]

Family reunions can be soooo much more when the activities are meaningful and memorable. We’ve put together some of our favorite ideas for food, games, and all that stuff that will help you plan more meaningful reunions.

We were so excited to go back to RootsTech as speakers. So sorry guys, we ended up not speaking at RootsTech. We had a close family member diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer around Thanksgiving. With the daily phone calls, monthly out of state visits, updating my home, we just didn’t have the bandwidth […]

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Creating a secret family group online is one way you can share family information while protecting privacy. Making a family group secret gives your family a private place to ask questions, share stories, pictures, and interact. But are they worth the effort? Not long ago, I sent my 22-year-old married college student son a great […]

Guarding online family privacy is super important in today’s age. When my family decided to organize a reunion we wanted a way to communicate information and get feedback, so we turned to … you guessed it, online tools and social media. Little did we know that there were so many decisions to make (from a […]

We’d LOVE for you to come hang with us in person anywhere we may be! On this page you’ll find places where we’ll be speaking, visiting, or just enjoying. See GeniBLISS Sightings to know where we’ll be in 2018 and beyond in the off-line world. If you can’t make it to any of these venues, […]

Honoring old family traditions in modern ways is much simpler than you may have thought. This allows you to preserve & keep those older traditions alive in a way the present generation can not only accept but embrace. We took our great-grandmothers “Christmas gift to us” tradition & modernized it while still paying tribute to […]

Thank you so much for watching our RootsTech 2018 presentation about using Facebook Groups! We are so honored to spend time with you sharing our bringing families closer together experience. We are happy to offer this “secret site” information we promised you in our RootsTech 2018 presentation Here you’ll find links to all the information […]