What I did was record my father' memories, copy them to CD and send them to my sibs. Getting some kind of record of your family is a great thing to be able to share and to hand down. When my great granduncle Max shot to death that crooked revenue agent, right on the courthouse steps in Atlanta, it added a colorful chapter to my family's story.If your parents or grandparents are still alive, I'd urge you to get their story and write it down. My father never really told us a lot about his Welsh heritage and very little survived. I have two photos of my great grandfather (restored thanks to member tuold). When we found the pictures, we assumed they were of my grandfather, but only recently learned he was my great-grandfather. My father is now 97, legally blind and although he is pretty coherent, doesn't remember much about their origins in Wales.
Details from my father's side are a bit sketchy past my grandparents unless a cousin has dug back further, but I at least knew my grandmother on that side as a boy. But my mother and her one sister did go back three generations and I have a complete family tree back to my great-grandmother.If your parents or grandparents are still alive, I'd urge you to get their story and write it down.