Create souvenirs for your family reunion.
A family reunion might be a one-day event or a series of days to make a family reunion vacation. Family reunion gifts are often part of the festivities. The gift might be something presented to a family member for accomplishing a specific feat (such as traveling the most distance to the reunion), a thank you for the reunion organizer, or a gift presented to all family members or the heads of their families.
Photo Disks
Prior to the innovation of digital photography, sharing family heirloom pictures with all family members was expensive. This typically meant only select family members received family albums, filled with photographs of their ancestors. Today it is relatively inexpensive to share those images with everyone in the family, by creating photo CDs or DVDs, to pass out at the reunion. Encourage family members to scan and email you the heirloom photographs in their collection. Add all the collected digital images onto a disk, and make copies of the disk for each family member. Some online print-on-demand vendors provide this copying service for a fee, which may include a decorative CD label.
Holiday Ornament
Create a family holiday ornament to commemorate the family reunion. This is something family members can pass down to future generations. There are companies, such as Corporate Christmas Ornaments, Howe House and Fundraising Ornaments, which market custom holiday ornaments for bulk orders.
Coffee Mug
If a family member has designed a logo for your family reunion vacation, put that logo on coffee mugs. Each morning, when family members gather for coffee, they can use their family reunion coffee cups. Prices vary, depending on the amount of coffee cups ordered and if the logo is in one color or full color. When ordering online, from a company such as Zazzle or Cafe Press, there isn't an additional charge for multi-colored mugs, yet the price per piece tends to be much higher than when ordering custom mugs from a marketing company. You have the option of ordering just one cup from a site like Zazzle or Cafe Press, while marketing companies require bulk orders.
Family Tree
Family reunions are an opportunity to exchange genealogy information. If you have a family member who is actively pursing your family history, and has the information stored on genealogy software, or a site like Ancestry.com, use that information to create decorative family tree posters. Some software programs will automatically generate the family tree, which you can print out on your computer. At Ancestry.com, they have a printing service which allows you to create and order family tree posters, printed on quality paper.
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