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August: Osage County Opens December 25th #AugustMoments {$100 Giveaway}

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This sponsored post was written by the Experimental Mommy.  All opinions remain 100% mine.

After the bread has been broken, the presents have been opened and the family has all gone home, we love to hit the movies for some extra family time.  If you like to do the same, consider checking out the new film, “August: Osage County,” that hits theaters this holiday season in select cities on Wednesday, December 25th (everywhere in January) and includes a star-studded cast such as Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Ewan McGregor and many more!

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

This movie talks about togetherness and the importance of taking the time to be with your family and friends, especially around the Holidays.  You are sure to get wrapped up in the story of the Weston family so fortunately,  The Weinstein Co. has teamed up with MyHeritage.com for the release of August: Osage County to help you learn more about the Weston family and your own family with a free premium membership!

I have done a little bit of work on our own family tree and I find it quite fascinating!  I especially love looking at old pictures to get a glimpse of life in the past and I am trying to instill the same passion for learning in my own children.  In order to get started, I simply downloaded the printable family tree and taught the kids the very beginning of their own piece of history.

Have you started a family tree?  If so, what has been your experience?  Have you found out any interesting facts?  If not, download the family tree file above to get started!  You can also check out the Discover Your Roots Facebook app.  To help you begin your journey (and perhaps take the family to see August: Osage County, one Experimental Mommy reader will win a $100 VISA Gift Card!  Enter below:

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178 thoughts on “August: Osage County Opens December 25th #AugustMoments {$100 Giveaway}”

  5. I haven’t, but one of my aunts worked on a tree a few years back and we found out that one of our ancestors may have come to America on the Mayflower, which we thought was pretty darn interesting.

  19. no i haven’t but it would be a great thing to do that, especially while my grandma is still alive, she knows and remembers so much.

  23. Yes my father’s line is traced to 1557.
    We found out about two brothers my had that we didn’t know about.
    Thank you.

  24. I haven’t but my mom has, and we love looking at old pictures of great great great grandparents, etc!

  26. Yes! My husband’s 9x great grandfather put together the group that founded New York City! There’s a monument to him there and everything!

  27. I have done our family tree, back to the mid 1600’s. My great grandfather build the huge church organs.

  29. WE have, though my family is pretty boring and straight forward my daughter’s father found out that his grandfather was a twin and he never knew it (they had both passed)

  30. I have started one but haven’t got to far. I did find out my Great grandmother was an American indian.

  38. My brother seriously went into family tree research. He researched various families and went back centuries on some. Ironically he could not get far back on our grandparents. The Irish famine had a huge number of boats coming in to Canada though very few passenger lists are available. The information in Ireland and also in Norway was seldom kept for peasants

  40. Someone wrote a book several years ago and there are many interesting things. However, it all points to the fact that we come from many different places and cultures but we are who we make ourselves to be with the help of family and friends.

  44. i’ve been working on it for 10 years! we have a couple of brick walls. I would say a toss up between finding out I can trace back to 2 of the original pilgrims, and one of the founding families for montreal, were the most surprising

  47. I have not done a Family Tree! I cannot get my side of the families to agree on it!

    pattifritz2000 at yahoo dot com
    thank you

  50. I haven’t done one very far, but what I did find was some origins back to Germany of where my Grandparents lived. I would absolutely love to do a deeper look.

  54. I haven’t done a family tree. I’m sure there are some interesting tidbits to discover.
    jtmagmom73(at)gmail(dot)com

  58. I have started and I have one great-grandmother on my maternal side and a great-great grandmother on my paternal side who were both native american but from different tribes

  59. I’ve never done a family tree but would like to take the time and make one sometime. I’d like to know more about my family’s history. Thanks.
    partymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com

  64. We have! We had to do them for our kids in high school. We found so many great things. We found we weren’t at all originally from where we thought.

  68. Yes, I learned my family in Boston were The Breeds. The Battle of Bunker Hill was actually, in fact, fought on Breeds Hill.

  71. We have not done a full family tree but I did see the ship my great grandfather came over on from Sweden and learned that my grandfather was down on a census as being a girl because of his long hair when he was a little boy. lol

  72. I have done a family tree. The only interesting tidbit I found was that my great great grandmother go married at the age of 14. Wow!

  75. I haven’t done a family tree, but a cousin of mine did and uncovered a lot of interesting stuff- for instance, I have a great-great-grandfather who was a slave, the first Europeans in America on my mother’s side escaped an Indian massacre only to later marry Cherokee women and much, much more.

  76. We have not done one yet other than writing down what we know. I do know that my grandfather ‘s mom and dad came over from Norway and she was pregnant with him at the time!

  78. My brother has gotten into this with my mom’ side at least. Nothing really exciting but we found my sister’s first husband was related to the gangsta’ Jesse James and I just did one dna type search that said we are distantly related in my mom’s family to Jimmy Buffet. I had a great laugh! More so , we want to know medical information as we have been plagued by unfortunate and unexplainable health issues. With dna you can see what really lurks and is passed on. It’s fascinating. My great grandmother died young after having 3 children and spent the last years in a wheelchair. We had no idea he had remarrried and SHE was not our bio great grandma

  85. I haven’t actually done a family tree but I have some relatives who did a lot of research and made a couple books consisting of my dad’s side of the family’s history. It’s really interesting seeing that most of my relatives were engineers of some sort.

  86. I actually never have, but really want to so I can learn more about my heritage! We don’t have much family left as sadly, they most have passed on of cancer or other diseases.

    Thank you for the chance to win! Happy Holidays! I haven’t stopped by your blog in a while! lol

    Joey J.

  89. I had no idea that my Grandfather’s first wife was full Mic Mac , this was revealed to me when my brother informed me that he found documents to prove it.

  91. I have not done a family tree however my grandmother has just received one that her cousin had done and we hope to get a chance to see it.

  92. I haven’t done one since I was a lot younger but I remember being amazed at how many siblings my dad’s parent’s each had. They both came from families of over 10 kids!

  95. I tried doing one on Ancestry.com a while ago. I don’t have a very interesting family, it turns out! The most exciting thing anyone has done is built a famous church in Germany

  100. I did one on my dads side and was able to follow it all the way back to the 1600’s and 2 interesting things we had a relative in every war since the inception of the country and my dad always thought he was english but I followed his roots back to Germany

  102. My aunt has done a family tree on each side of my family. One interesting fact is that we are somehow related to Andrew Jackson on my dad’s side.

  104. HELP: I am also related to Daniel Boone! I need to contact deb c. and ask if she has a history that matches mine!

  105. I can be contacted at my twitter Risingstar2 or Facebook: kathy whitney for any information on Daniel Boone

  115. I haven’t done an actual family tree but I have researched a lot online and found my ancestors were founding settlers of one our state counties and even have a Historical Marker commemorating an ancestor.

  120. No, I haven’t done a family tree. I have tried to find out information about relatives, though, and I haven’t been able to learn too much. It would be interesting to do if I had the time.

  124. Yes, I followed my mother’s side back a ways because we knew very little about my grandmother. I ended up finding very close relatives and am friends on facebook now.

  134. I have done our family tree at Ancestry.com, though it is still not complete. It was interesting when I uncovered a letter written by one of my Great Grandfathers about his voyage to America and the experience he and his fellow passengers went through. It was not an easy thing to endure! Merry Christmas, everyone!

  135. I started a family tree last year and now genealogy is one of my favorite hobbies! One interesting fact I learned is that my 3rd great grandfather helped start a bunch of Swedish Lutheran churches in 3 different states!

  136. I’ve worked on a family tree some in the past, but I didn’t uncover anything surprising. Thanks for the chance to win!
    mrsmchappell at gmail dot com

  138. I haven’t personally done a family tree, but my late grandmother did a lot of genealogy and found that our ancestors came from all over Europe.

  140. My great-uncle has done a family tree, but I haven’t gotten to see it yet because he wants to go further back and show it at the family reunion. Thanks!

  148. We have done a family tree and we discovered that we are related to Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis & Clark expedition.

  149. I did research with my Grandmother and Dad and learned that we are related to John Hancock who signed The Declaration of Independence with his large and stylish signature!

  150. I traced my fathers side of the family to Scottish royalty in the 1400’s. It’s a lot of fun to find out things that you never knew.

  157. My brother and sister-in-law have done our family tree. I was very surprised to learn there was Viking blood back there!

  160. My son had to do a family tree for school. He learned most of the people on his dads side worked manufacturing and most of the people on my side were construction. thank you

  162. My husband’s father is very into genealogy and he has been working on my family tree. He’s gotten back as far as finding the ship records for relatives who came over from Scandinavia in the 1800’s. Very interesting!

  163. I haven’t, but I do have some cool pics and papers from when my great grandparents came through Ellis Island! A family tree would be something really cool to do though!

    coriwestphal at msn dot com

  169. My niece is working on mine, but it’s a BIG family, so it may take some time. Thanks for having this contest.

  173. On hubby’s side, 3 brothers/sisters married a brother/sister/first cousin. You want to talk intertwined relatives!!

  176. I haven’t done a family tree, but I love hearing about older relatives from an aunt who is good at keeping track of that stuff.

  177. My dad researched our roots. We already knew that we were related to the Lincoln family. He was able to trace our roots to the Mayflower.

  178. Thanks for the giveaway…we have done a family tree: my side of the family emigrated from Ireland in the 1820’s; we have had family members in every U.S. war since that time.

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