FAMILY TREE PROJECT
This is an opportunity to investigate your family and how you fit into it! You will also take a look at your culture and heritage! Your task is to learn more about your family and investigate its history. This can be challenging for many people because it requires the investigator to “step outside” themselves and everything they know as a member of that family - what may seem normal and ordinary to you may very well seem interesting and different to others. There are two parts of this investigation. One is discovering and reporting your family tree. The other is learning about the family traditions and culture through artifacts and interviews. IMPORTANT- FAMILY IS FAMILY NO MATTER WHAT! Please embrace this project with ALL types of families (adopted, step, guardian, etc) please make any changes necessary to culture/heritage and family tree as you see fit for your family. This project is not intended to make anyone feel uncomfortable.
LINKS TO COMPLETE TREE
BELOW YOU WILL FIND THE PROJECT RUBRIC/GRADING SHEET AND SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
This is an opportunity to investigate your family and how you fit into it! You will also take a look at your culture and heritage! Your task is to learn more about your family and investigate its history. This can be challenging for many people because it requires the investigator to “step outside” themselves and everything they know as a member of that family - what may seem normal and ordinary to you may very well seem interesting and different to others. There are two parts of this investigation. One is discovering and reporting your family tree. The other is learning about the family traditions and culture through artifacts and interviews. IMPORTANT- FAMILY IS FAMILY NO MATTER WHAT! Please embrace this project with ALL types of families (adopted, step, guardian, etc) please make any changes necessary to culture/heritage and family tree as you see fit for your family. This project is not intended to make anyone feel uncomfortable.
LINKS TO COMPLETE TREE
- The Family Tree (25 points)
- Family Echo- http://www.familyecho.com Generates a tree based on the info you put in.
- https://freefamilytreetemplates.com/5-generation-family-tree-template/ GREAT PAGE FOR PRINTABLE TREE TEMPLATES
- Make up your own!
- https://familysearch.org/ - this group has been around since the 1890s but their area of expertise is digitizing records. Started in Utah, they have collected and digitized millions of family records from over 100 countries. Doesn’t require account to look up people but creating an account will provide more access to the treasure trove of documents.
- Ask a family member. Many family trees already exist. You might be amazed at how much other people have done to recreate your family tree online. If it has been done, chances are you or your parents are included. Family trees that were created with a program are stored in gedcom files (.ged) so one way to do a search would be to put in your surname and .ged in a google search (e.g. “cowit.ged”).
- Treelines.com - requires email for registration. Allows you to add images and stories to the family tree. This is a great resource for those who want to continue the genealogy research or have it set up for their own future generations.
- Family Village - http://members.ngsgenealogy.org/FV.htm - this is a facebook game addition. It allows you to do research of family histories. This tool has been called a good place for people interested in genealogy to access government record
BELOW YOU WILL FIND THE PROJECT RUBRIC/GRADING SHEET AND SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
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