Don't forget the importance of capturing the sound of people's voices. Small, handheld audio-tape recorders are cheap. All of these are part of capturing your family traditions. You must certainly remember some special dish made by your mother or another relative. Aromas and tastes can invoke vivid memories.
Recipes are things to be shared with one another, and passed on from generation to generation.
A wonderful way to promote this is to lay a stack of recipe or index cards on the kitchen counter or table. Light My Fire One of our family traditions focuses on the Christmas tree. When we took the tree down after the holidays, we would saw the limbs off and saw the trunk into pieces. The trunk pieces went to the firewood pile to age for a year. The following year, the pieces of last year's tree were burned in the fireplace on Christmas Eve.