👰🤵 Family History Fun Friday: Family Signatures 📜

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How do you sign your name? Do you write it really fast, like a doctor? Or, do you add a flourish at the end? Some of the younger generation may not even write their name much anymore with the increasing influence of the digital age. 💻️ However, our personal signatures can be another element to express who we are. 💥 I remember in sixth grade I loved adding a heart 💜 for the dot over the "i" in my nickname that I used. (That only lasted for a school year until I moved onto middle school.)

Our ancestors signed many of the documents 📃that we now use to learn more about them, records like marriage certificates 👰🤵 or military draft cards. Or, maybe you have a card or letter that family member sent you. 💌 Do you see similarities between your signature and your ancestors' signatures? How are they different?

Discover some fun activities to preserve your family signatures that are distinctly their own. Check them out here. I especially like the one with the signature over the ancestral photo. Try writing them in different mediums: markers, crayons, pens and pencils, paint brush 🎨, or even a calligraphy pen. You can frame them, compile them in a scrapbook 📘, or digitally preserve them in a family memories page that could be copied and shared with other family members. What ways can you think of to preserve your family's signatures? 📜