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Family History
Hey ya'll :D
Alrighty, here's some good news for everyone; school ends in a about 7 weeks, yaaay!
Now, to my question..my final school project is about genealogy (you know family history, family tree's and so on) and it's supposed to be really big (minimum 10 pages, maximum 30)and it's like 25% of our grade. So I really need some inspiration, maybe some ideas on HOW to write it or make it interesting? I've tried searching on google to find articles or papers on the same thing for ideas, but didn't really find anything, so if you can point me to some article you found interesting that would be great :)
I know I'm not going to be able to write it in the exact same way, since my family history is most likely completely different, but just for directions and ideas you know..
thank you & have a good week :D
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hey back to ya. ^_^
i'm assuming that you're going to be writing this on your own genealogy, i hope i am correct in my assumption. the great thing about when teachers give you assignments about you and your own personal and family life is this: IT'S ABOUT YOU AND YOUR OWN PERSONAL AND FAMILY LIFE! you're the best expert in this field! :P
you've got a lot of freedom here, and it's really a great opportunity to learn about your anscestery, where your family's roots are, to hear stories and interesting facts, to learn about history from a firsthand account, and a lot more besides. get excited about it, get interested in it, throw yourself into your research; this is pretty cool stuff, and you can use your interest and curiosity as your inspiration. don't think about it too much as a school project (except to make sure you get it done and handed in on time ^_^), and let yourself enjoy what you're uncovering.
as for what i've done, i think i've made 3 or 4 family history projects. i was lucky because my mom had a project from college that she did with some old and some really old pictures of her forefathers/mothers. there was this one that was from around the early 1900s, possibly the late 1800s. it was so old-looking, in a classical sophisticated antique kind of way.
anyway, go talk to your parents, grandparents, (if you have them) great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc., and ask lots of questions, take notes, listen well, record on a tape-recorder if you want. and chances are, someone in your family has done something like this and they might even have their old projects, which gives you lots of extra information that you might not have found in your research, and it can save time, which means you'll have more time to worry about how your paper is written and getting it to be the necessary length.
some things to keep track of during your research: if you can get this far, where did your great-grandparents or great-great-grandparents or even ggg-grandparents come from when they moved to the u.s.a. and when was that; when/where people were born and when/where they died; who married whom and how many--if any--children did they have; what jobs did people hold; any interesting facts about family members that were involved in wars, politics, religion, society, economy, health care, schools, etc., etc.
if you'd like any more advice, just send me a quick email and i'll help you through some more of it. remember: get yourself excited about it and it will be easier to do, as well as a lot more fun. ~_^
hope this helped. good luck!
~*kitty*~
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Try and think of some things you like about each family member. Then just organize into a format. Like you could start with your parents and work backwards. Also if there some interesting things that happened to your family like they left a diary you should add that in. Think of stories about when you were a kid.
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