Creating and maintaining your family history is beautiful, worthwhile activity. The family history provides our ancestral roots. Plus family histories are fun. Get an overview of genealogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneology
Steps to Create Your Family History
1 – Search the internet with your principle family names. Potentially there is already a family history that a relative created.
2 – Collect available information, old letters, old birth certificates, old death certificates, old pictures, old scrapbooks, old newspaper clippings, etc.
3 – Interview older members of the family to collect memories, recollections, stories, etc. Audio tape or video tape the interviews if possible.
4 – Organize information. Create a document with text, pictures, maps, etc based upon each relative.
5 – Create a family tree using a software program. View a list of programs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_software. Most genealogy programs can import and export using the GEDCOM standard.
6 – Share your family history for all family members, e.g. DVD, CD, web site, etc.
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