How,do I make a family tree for a project due in school?
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find out who grandparents on both sides are. go from there.  how much do you need to know. are you supposed to be getting help?
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Well Lola, I think something that your Uncle would find really nice is a collage of your family together in different pictures. You can do this either by cutting the edges with a scrap booking scissors then glue the pics on a poster board or you can buy one of those frames already made to insert the pics into. If you could as your parents for pics of the family in the past that your Uncle remembers, I bet he would really get a kick out of this piece of family memorabilia.
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You would have to trace back. Only 1 out of 100,000 14-year olds have the patience to do serious genealogy. If you are depending on the computer in the library - public or school - you are doubly handicapped.\n\nI have a general answer about beginning genealogy I paste in a lot. Look in the resolved Q's in\nArts & Humanities -> Genealogy\nif you are interested.
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Here's a tip that might help you out. Don't wait until the day before your project is due to go on Yahoo and ask someone to do it for you.\n\nIt's called research. Do it.
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Genealogy is not as simple as typing in a few words and hitting enter.  I have been working on my families for over twenty-five years now.\nI would suggest you start at either  \nwww.familysearch.org \nwww.rootsweb.com\nHowever, you will have so much more fun if you trace your family the old fashioned way.  Search archives, courthouses, cemeteries and libraries.\nHappy hunting.
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you can pick and choose from this site, I won't bother explaining it, since we all know it, but this site is aimed at kids:\n\nhttp://www.sciencemadesimple.com/static.html\n\nYou might even just want to do the first parts and the last parts, but it depends on the age of the kids and stuff like that.
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whats a family interview?  if this is for a class, just try to be interested in what someone has to say.  You must come to the interview prepared to some extent, the greatest extent possible.  Know the family members, maybe where the family originated from, something unique about the family or a member.  Work from there asking open ended questions that allow the members to freely discuss what they chooose.  Listen carefully and ask questions that occur to you as the conversation continues.... Yes, make it a conversation.  Share a little about yourseldf to get them to open up.  Ask to see pictures and ask questions about them.  If the point of the exercise is to learn about this family and its culture and past and goals, then you do that by listening and being genuinely interested, not with a series of pre-selected questions.
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Library  I hope you are talking about a family tree.
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Ask your PAPA!!! (Kidding)\nMaybe your last name can help.\nGo to the genealogy and Human history department and they might be able to help.
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there is a free service through Ancestry.com, they offer limited resources.  For full service, you have to pay.\n\nI was able to work up a very extensive family tree for several generation by using the free service.  You can't find the "lost" ancestors, but there is a huge pool of people who are on the sites, thanks to the Mormon church registry.\ncheck here:\nhttp://www.uftree.com/\nhttp://genealogy.about.com/library/free_charts/bl_family_tree.htm\nhttp://www.ancestorhunt.com/
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http://www.familysearch.org\nhttp://www.accessgenealogy.com/\n\nCyndi's List has a bunch too:\nhttp://www.cyndislist.com/\n\nIt's a hard thing to do but possible. It took me 2 years online and all I had to start with was my grandmother's name and her parents, I got all the way back to 1535!
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Family trees don't have symbols.\n\nDo an image search on "family tree."\n\nAlso, family trees are called "pedigree chart."\n\nIt is best to put your genealogical information into a computer program.  They can print out a family tree and other kinds of forms.  Personal Ancestral File is a good one, and it's free!\n\nCheck your local library or online for help knowing how to do research.  You can also ask at the public library to learn how to contact your local genealogical society; they will be glad to help you.
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There are numerous online resources for genealogy, including:\nwww.familysearch.org\nfreebmd.rootsweb.com\nwww.genealogy.com\nwww.ancestry.com
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try\nhttp://www.familyresearcher.net/BritishResearch/Welcome.html
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Not sure but there are other family tree sites out there that you can do searchs on such as familytree.com
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This is a text file I save and paste for your convenience and mine. I don't have to type it again and you don't have to plow through 47 resolved questions to find it. After the warning it explains the links.\n\nGenealogy is a fascinating hobby, but it usually takes more time than most young people are willing to spend. A good family tree takes more time than a term paper, and involves more research. You don't need a college degree to do genealogy, just common sense and patience.\n\nGenealogy is the most popular hobby on the Internet for people over 40. As an example, Cyndi's List (link 1) is a web site with nothing but links to other genealogy sites. She has over 250,000 links.\n\nThe next two links are to the two largest free data bases on the Internet. Family Search (familysearch.com) is run by the LDS Church - the Mormons. RootsWeb World Connect (worldconnect.genealogy) is a collection of genealogical data that other genealogists have uploaded. \n\nTry your two surnames in each data base - your father's surname and your mother's maiden surname. That will give you a feel for how much research has been done on those two surnames. Even better, if you can, call your grandparents and ask what THEIR grandparent's names were - maiden name for the ladies. Their birth day and birth state will help too. Those 16 people are your great-great grandparents. \n\nMost Yahoo! users are 20, give or take 10 years. Most people have children between the ages of 20 and 40, which averages to 30 years per generation. So, if you were born 20 years ago, your mother and father were born 50 years ago, your four grandparents were born 80 years ago, your eight great-grandparents were born 110 years ago and your sixteen great-great grandparents were born 140 years ago. (Those are averages; your results will vary.) If you can get the names of all 16 of your great-great grandparents, you should be able to find at least one or two by name in one of the data bases. You won't find yourself or your parents, because genealogy sites hide dates and details - usually even given names - for people born after 1920. The SSDI (Social Security Death Index) is an exception. It will have people born any time, so long as they have died. \n\nLink 4 (superpages) is a web-based phone book. It will tell you how many people with your surname have listed phone numbers in the US.\n\nLink 5 (begingen.html) is a page on my web site with some hints for beginners. One of the pages is "How to Start". There are also liks to larger, more comprehensive beginner's guides.
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go to family history.com