Ancestors' Advent Calendar: Dec 2nd: Bring Home a Real Christmas Tree !

Household Harmony, Being the Extra Christmas Part of the Girl’s Own Paper, 1888.

'And now, see him coming along with a bending back, bearing an entire fir-tree, which gracefully nods its head as he slowly trudges along, and shakes and rustles all its dry brown cones, as if in dumb anti-cipation of the peals of bells that will shortly be rung! This fir is for the Christmas Tree––– the green and simple foundation and super- structure, which is shortly destined to sustain so much brightness and romance, so many glittering presents, and to be the medium of so many sweet feelings, joyous hopes, and tender sense of childhood–––in present bright visions around us, and in tender recollections of the past. '
Richard H. Home, 'What Christmas is to a Bunch of People', Household Words, Volume IV, page 604. 25/12/1851.

What are your thoughts on real Christmas trees? Use the comments box.

Yesterday's Ancestors' Advent Idea

Tomorrow's Ancestors' Advent Idea

For a full article on how your ancestors decorated for Christmas click here

 

UK readers - Click here for more on family history books by Ruth A. Symes

 USA readers - Click here for more on family history books by Ruth A Symes

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RuthaSymes
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Searchmyancestry/

Don't forget to enter your email address in the box on the right for subsequent days in the Ancestors' Advent Calendar and other articles.

For earlier dates in the advent calendar, scroll down this blog and then click on 'Older posts'

#ancestors #familyhistory #genealogy #Xmasdecorations #ideasforchristmas #ancestryhour #wdytya #ideasforchristmasfromyourancestors #familytree #Victorian #ruthasymes #@RuthASymes #decorations #searchmyancestry #genchat #ancestryhour #ancestorsadventcalendar #adventcalendar #Edwardian