🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃
Who's haunting
Tonight is for remembering the people who came before us.
Sign in to FamilySearch, and in about a minute we'll print you a free page of
true stories about your own ancestors: one silly, one brave, and one from hard times.
Take it home and read it to your little goblins at bedtime.
🕯️ Wake my ancestors
1 Sign in to FamilySearch2 We read your tree3 Print it and read it tonight
Free. Your password goes only to FamilySearch. We don't keep your tree, and you're signed out when your page prints.
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Have a printer? Hand these out at your own door
🎃 Your own porch printer 🎃
Hand out family stories
Parents scan a code with their phone. In about a minute, their family's story page prints on your printer.
All you need is a computer with a printer, near your front door.
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🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃
Who's haunting
Read some ancestor stories to your kids while they sort their candy tonight.
😜 A silly story
🦁 A brave story
🌧️ A hard-times story
True stories from your own family tree, printed free, in about a minute.
1 Scan the code with your phone camera.2 Sign in to FamilySearch on your phone.3 Pick up your printed page at our front door!
🧠 Emory University researchers found that kids who know their family's stories have higher self-esteem.
Free. Your password goes only to FamilySearch. We don't keep your tree. · babyancestry.com/halloween
About this page
Baby Ancestry was made to help people, especially young people, connect to their family who have gone before them. We started out giving baby name recommendations from family history. Now we also help connect kids to their family on Halloween. If you have a great idea for what we could do next, please tell us !
I love the little princesses and superheroes who come to our door on Halloween. I can't stand the creepy side of the holiday.
This year I told my 17-year-old daughter I wanted to rebel against the creepy part, but I didn't know how. She suggested turning to our ancestors, the way Day of the Dead remembers loved ones. That same day, another daughter told me about research from Emory University: kids who know their family's stories do better in life, even when the stories are hard ones.
So starting at 4:30 on Halloween afternoon, I asked AI to vibe code this Halloween page. Now kids can go home with something sweeter than candy: true stories about the people who came before them.
All the stories come from memories your relatives saved on FamilySearch. We don't keep your tree.
— Tyler Patterson
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