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Genealogy For The Children

Your little one just walked in the door from school and announced that she needs to create a family tree for a class project.

In this day and age with families spread from one end of the country to the other, the ties to the past are often murky at best. You want to help your child, but heck; you don’t even remember your grandparents’ full names.

What do you do?

Here are some basic ideas to help your little one get beyond three-block tree without doing the project yourself:

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Do share what information you can. For example, details about yourself and your spouse. Where you were born and when. Let them know about your wedding and the dates of birth of their siblings, if any.

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Give your child access to a family member who might be able to help. Call your parents or your spouses’. An aunt or an uncle. Let them interview relatives for assistance.

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Provide them access to the Internet. If your family is spread out, but uses the Internet, let your little one e-mail them for help. Ask family members to help fill out the tree with names and dates.

Once your child gets back the basic information, help her create the tree without doing it for her. Should the information beyond your parents still be murky, see what the two of you can find on the Internet. You might not be able to find all the answers there, but perhaps you can fill in some of the blanks.

Children are naturally curious about themselves and their family, this project can serve as a great catalyst for her to learn about where she comes from and how your family got to be where it is today.

Whether you create only a brief family history or manage to trace it back seven generations or more, make sure she enjoys the effort and learns from the research experience. Regardless the outcome, your little one will be sharpening skills that will serve her well in the future and she just might learn to appreciate the ties that bind family a little more along the way.

Our Weekly GenMates Update

Hope that your week has gone well? I know for us it’s been a little mad to put it mildly. As some of you will be aware my other half had a knee operation early in the week and I have been running back and too trying to look after them! Anyway things are slowly getting on the mend. So that is good news!

GenMates is continuing to grow at an amazing rate. We are seeing so many new members joining and taking advantage of the facilities on offer and it’s great to know that we are providing something that genealogists clearly want. We already have plans for a number of other sites in associated niches (areas of interest) so watch out for the news on those.

The events of the last week have delayed some of our activity but we are rapidly catching up! The Genealogy Audio Articles and The Scrapbooking Audio Articles are getting there and as someone said to me the other day they will be great to listen to on the colder winter nights. Talking of winter nights I don’t know about you but it doesn’t feel like autum yet does it! Well certainly not here in the Uk where the trees are still looking very green and leaf laden! Oh that reminds me the other thing I was asked about the Audio articles was whether the audio files will be available as MP3 downloads so that people can listen to them on the move. I am working on that at the moment and seeing how we can make them available at a nominal charge for the lot - so again watch out for news on that.

During the week I made a special offer available of The Genealogy Guide and literally dozens of people took advantage of the offer. It’s still available if you want to grab a copy for yourself and I will probably leave it available for just a couple more days at The Genealogy Guide.

We also received quit a few emails asking if we could make other offers such as that one and I am pleased to say we are doing at PK eBooks - Your eBook Store! The site specialises in home and hobby quality eBooks and you will find eBooks on Scrapbooking Ideas, Coin Collecting, Stamp Collecting, Amateur Photography and much more besides! Do take a look at the site as you will find a lot of eBooks and there is even a free download which I think you will find interesting!

So there you have it a very busy week! Have a great week and I look forward to seeing you over at GenMates or at one of our other Genealogy sites!