Milestones and meaningful gifts
For adult children planning a birthday, an anniversary or a holiday gift.
The milestone birthday gifts families keep tend to be about the person's own life: their stories recorded, their photographs named, their parents' records found. These guides list ideas for the milestones families plan for most, a 70th, 75th or 80th birthday and a 50th anniversary, with how far ahead each one has to start.
A researched family history book takes three to four months, so a book for a spring birthday is begun in the winter, and a priority commission can deliver a first edition when the date is close.
Every kind of legacy book for a parent or grandparent, with what it holds, who does the work, how long it takes and what it costs.
Milestone birthdays
- Meaningful 70th and 75th birthday gifts for a parentListEleven gifts for a parent turning 70 or 75, built around their own life and grouped by how far ahead each one has to start.
- Meaningful 80th birthday gift ideas for a mother or fatherListThirteen gifts built around a parent's own life, grouped by how far ahead each one has to start.
Anniversaries
- 50th anniversary gifts for parents that tell their storyListGifts for a parents' golden anniversary built around their marriage, from gold to a book of both families, grouped by how far ahead each one starts.
Grandparents and the holidays
- Meaningful gifts for grandparents and for parents who have everythingListGifts made from a grandparent's or parent's own life, for the holidays, Grandparents Day, a retirement or a frail parent, with how far ahead each one starts.
Zichronos researches a family's history and publishes it as a finished book, timed to the date it is needed. How we work