Help your child connect with the past by researching your family tree. Researching your roots can be a fascinating past-time that brings past events alive and makes them more than dates in a dusty text book.
Here are some tips from the “Kids Korner” of Cobblestone Legacies:
Getting started
Start with yourself and your family. Using a form called an Individual Summary Sheet to record your findings. Record basic information about each person and their family - when and where they were born, names of their parents, names of their children, and details about their life.
Then use the Family Tree Chart. This chart shows all your ancestors, you and you brothers and sisters, your parents and grandparents.
You can find the following resources as well as some great writing tips for writing your family history at Cobblestone Legacey’s Kids Korner:
Family Interviews – a list of questions to ask when talking with your grandparents or great grandparents, your aunts and uncles, or anyone else you want to find out about. (a PDF file)
Family Tree Charts – a variety of special charts to show your family tree.
Individual Summary Sheet - an easy to use form to record a variety of information about an individual. (a PDF file)
Family Group Sheet – a handy form to record all the information about one family. If there are more than three children in the family, use the Family Group Sheet continuation form for other children. Print as many as you need for your own use. (PDF files)
Happy Researching!
