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.