Family History Project

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Family History Project

• Does your family history matter?

2
The task

• To research your family history and produce a
  project explaining the process that you went
  through and the things you have found out.

3
When?

• Mostly for Homework
• This will be the homework task for around 6/7
  weeks
• Each week you will be set a different task in
  relation to the project
• You must fill in the homework record sheet each
  time to show what you do for homework each week.
  I will check and sign it.

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What first?

• Mind map all you know about your family history
  at the moment brothers/sisters, parents,
  grandparents, cousins etc. Where do they live,
  what do they do, anything else of interest.
• It is crucial that you dont ask any members of
  your family for help with this first bit the
  idea is to have something that demonstrates the
  level of your knowledge before beginning the
  project!

5
Use of technology to help the process

• As you gather more and more information you may
  find that simply recording it on paper in the
  traditional way limits what you can do.
• I would suggest that as you have easy access to a
  computer you should use it to effectively
  organise notes etc.

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Which one there are loads!

• I have tried out several, unfortunately for Mac
  there arent really many good free ones (there
  are loads for PC if you have one!).
• A PC free one
• http//www.familysearch.org/Eng/Home/Welcome/pafDo
  wnload.asp
• It allows you to add family members, notes and
  even multimedia files such as movies, pictures
  and sound files.
• And it will put it all together into a family
  tree for you!
• There are Mac alternatives that work very well
  but they all cost money!

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Homework 2 you dont need to write the whole
thing in its homework 2 on the sheet.

• Find more out about your Family History etc by
  talking to relatives and checking out dates etc.
  Concentrate on relatives that you may only get to
  see during the holiday period Christmas is a
  time when many people get to see relatives that
  they rarely meet. Remember to record interesting
  stories, events etc either through notes or
  with an audio recorder.