Document your life and celebrate your heritage with this beautifully illustrated keepsake album to record special moments and memories.

One of the most precious legacies you can leave your grandchildren is the unforgettable, totally unique story of your life. Here is an opportunity to commit to writing all of your past so that future generations can read about their heritage. This practical, beautifully illustrated journal offers a place to write your wonderful recollections, record the facts, incidents, family tree, and memories that make up your treasured tale of family love.

The exquisite 128-page keepsake journal offers plenty of space to write as much information as possible and in the format you prefer—devoting four pages to one particular ancestor or family about whom much is known or small bits of information about everyone in the family. The 32-page instruction book—placed in a pocket at the back of the book—will give you all the information you need to research, document, and preserve the history of your family, including where to find government or other records, computer research, minority-group research, Mormons’ Family History Library, and much more. A printed family tree designed around a gift plate makes this is a great gift for any occasion.

Every grandparent has a story to be told and here is the perfect place to tell it. Creating this book will bring floods of precious memories and when complete, will become an heirloom that can be passed down to for generations....

With wit and charm, Oh Say Did You Know serves up 300 intriguing events and ideas that helped shape the United States. Gain valuable insight into the intricacies of every period of American history, from colonial days to the historic election of the first African American president. Five chapters cover a variety of topics, including government, politics, economy, commerce, science, education, innovation, medicine, daily life, and arts and entertainment.

Myth-debunking sidebars and fun tidbits about lesser-known historical figures are dispersed throughout the book, along with lists such as "Cup o'Canary, Wench!" (long-forgotten drinks serves in colonial taverns) and "America's Ten Highest-Grossing Movies" (from Gone With the Wind to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). Whether you're a history buff or a lover of miscellany, you won't be able to get enough of these fascinating anecdotes. You'll find engaging tales and facts, including these examples:

*"Gambling in the Colonies"-Gambling was a fact of life in early America, and the governments of all 13 colonies used lotteries to help finance road building and numerous other public projects.

*"The Costly Epizootic of 1872"-Less than a decade after the Civil War, a fast- moving equine influenza swept down from Canada into the United States, crippled virtually all of the nation's horses, and left the economy in ruins.

*DIDN'T HAPPEN sidebar: "Betsy Ross's Flagging Reputation"-Sheer hearsay put Betsy Ross into history books as the person who designed the American flag. The more likely designer was Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

*OUR NATIVE TONGUE sidebar: "Atomic Slang"-Words and terms coined in the early years include go ballistic, more bang for the buck, blast (a great party) and bombed (seriously inebriated). REVIEW...