About Christmas Trees, from Family Christmas Online^TM

This page contain a growing list of links to articles about the history of Christmas trees as well as suggestions for getting the most out of your tree. The articles we have posted so far include:

• A Brief History of Christmas Trees

• Traditional Home-Made Ornaments

• Choosing and Using A Cut Christmas Tree

• What About Living Christmas Trees?

• Don't Try This At Home (Anymore) - Dangerous Decorations People Used To Use
• Faux Fir - Making Artificial Trees Look Less Artificial

• A Brief History of Christmas Tree Lighting - Explains the differences among all commonly used light types, with some hints for choosing your next set of Christmas tree lights.

• Lighting Christmas Trees with Miniature Light Strands - Includes hints for using incandescent and LED strands.

Update for 2010 - The Internet's best and most complete resource on the history of Christmas tree lighting has been restored and is now available at OldChristmasTreeLights.com The photos and history compiled between 1999 and 2008 by collectors and brothers Bill and George Nelson have been valued by collectors worldwide. When the last version of the site went down in early 2010, we went on a sort of digital scavenger hunt to restore and piece together as much information as we possibly could, in an effort to keep the brothers' findings available for future generations. Clicking on the picture to the right will take you to the restored site. Or, if you want to check out a couple of articles that are closely related to the content of this page, please check out:

• Lighted Tabletop Trees - Bill and George Nelson's take on vintage trees that were sold with the lights already installed.

• A Timeline of American Christmas Tree Lighting

Obviously, there are many more things we can say about Christmas trees and every other aspect of Christmas. That said, if there's something you'd especially like us to look into adding, or anything you'd like to contribute, we would certainly enjoy hearing from you. Family or cultural traditions we haven't touched on yet, personal experiences that would make a good story, Christmas songs nobody else knows, photographs of your family's Christmas tree or nativity a generation or three ago, anything you can think of that you'd like to share.

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In the meantime, we hope that you can keep the spirit of Christmas and the Reason for the Season alive in your heart all year long,

Paul and Shelia Race

www.familychristmasonline.com