To find out the history of your family, you can contact any organization that deals with genealogy. And you can do the study of the history of a kind yourself, an exciting, interesting activity, although it takes quite a lot of time. To be more productive, follow certain rules.
Instructions
Step 1
To study the history of a kind, you will need information about your relatives, both living and long-dead. Start with those relatives whom you know well. Write down all the information about your parents, then about grandparents, then ask those and others about the rest of the relatives. Next, look for information about earlier generations.
Step 2
First, start looking for information at home - in the family archives, letters, diaries, notebooks, newspaper clippings, in photo albums, in the back of photographs. Pay attention to names, dates, place of residence, family ties. Studying these materials will make you look differently at parents and grandparents, open up the world of their relationships and feelings, success and failure.
Step 3
Talk to relatives for more details. From their memories, you can learn a lot of interesting facts from the life of your ancestors, the motives and time of moving, changing jobs, the true attitude to religion, get information about the financial situation, physical condition, appearance, habits, get acquainted with family stories. When talking with relatives, prepare a list of questions in advance, with which you can easily guide the conversation without losing the thread of the conversation.
Step 4
Use official documents, examine the houses found and those found in the archives. In the birth certificate, you will find information such as the time and place of birth, surname, first names, patronymics of the parents. A marriage certificate contains information about the place and time of the marriage, the dates of birth of the spouses, the premarital surname of the mother. Divorce certificate - the date of the divorce, the place of its registration, the postmarital surnames of the spouses. From the death certificate, you will learn the time, place and cause. In addition to personal information about a person (name, date of birth, place of residence), the passport contains information about his spouse, children (their names and dates of birth). There is also one or more photographs of the owner, there may be information about the blood group. The work book provides information on education, places of work and positions held. Data on education, profession, awards and titles of ancestors may contain certificates, certificates, certificates, diplomas, diplomas, order books. For men (and some women), the universal document is a military ID, which contains all this information, including: an indication of height, weight, head and shoe size.
Step 5
Organize all the information you collect. Group the material by topic in folders, authors, addressees, chronology. Record in the form of a table or try to draw up a family tree. Of course, some lines or windows will leave empty spaces. Send the partially completed worksheets to your relatives, asking them to fill in the blanks with what they know.
