08/11/2025
If your family history were a coloring book, what would be on the first page? 🎨🖍️
A quilt pattern from your great-grandmother?
A map tracing your ancestors’ migration path?
A family farm or hometown street scene?
I recently shared about how my coloring hobby reminded me of genealogy (yes, there’s a connection!). In it, I share a few parallels between color-by-number and family history that you just may find interesting.
You can read it here ➡https://taneyakoonce.substack.com/p/ive-been-coloring-heres-how-its-similar
And if you want to follow along with my coloring journey, lessons learned, and maybe even see some genealogy-inspired coloring designs in the future, I’ve started a newsletter just for my coloring journey. It's called "Taneya Colors" and you can subscribe here ➡ https://taneyacolors.substack.com/
Now, if I were to answer my own question of "If your family history were a coloring book, what would be on the first page, just as you see a house in the image of this post, mine may be of the house my maternal grandmother grew up in. She is the anchor for my interest in family history and it would be cool to have that as my cover.
Your turn — what would your first page be?
Image credit: created with ChatGPT-5 by Taneya Koonce
