1. Religion and family history are a great place to look if you want to start some 2. Family traditions come in all shapes and sizes, from the smallest repeated 3. Traditions usually involve unity and face-to-face interaction that is becoming more rare in this technological age. 4. Practising family traditions open old wounds harbored from older generations. 5. Incorporate traditions from childhood, but focus on creating your own traditions with your new family. 6. Doing family traditions may not necessarily strengthen family bonds. 7. Unfolding genealogy and creating new family traditions may bring healing to scarred relationships. 8. Tracing family tree may help prevent illness or deaths. 9. Discovering relationships in your family tree or genealogy is more of a shame rather than building identity