After my daughter's birth we continued to help other families find their ancestral roots. I have a wonderful picture of her in a chest pack, while I shared genealogical information with people at the county fair. My children and my community volunteering were two priorities that I found a way to combine. Today, my children are 12 and 10 and we find many opportunities to volunteer in our community. Our best source is the local volunteer coordinator for our county.
Most areas have a group that helps connect volunteers with opportunities to help others.
This group can take any interest or talent and match it with someone who has a need for that particular interest or talent. When our homeschooling led us into local history, we called the volunteer organization and found a need for people to guide visitors through a historical home. We spent a lot time reading about the home, touring it ourselves, and watching a locally made film about the residents of the home. Once a month, all of us spent four hours taking visitors through the home and telling them all the fun facts that we had learned. Next to the home is a reproduction of a one-room schoolhouse.