interest in the history of a sort existed in people at all times.But at various times belonged to different class compiling their own pedigrees in different ways.Nobles traced their lineage almost since the creation of the world and treasured all the available documents and heirlooms.Merchants imitate them, and often was a merchant family for several generations of the glorious and respected profession.The "lower" classes - from burghers and peasants - most of the information passed on from generation to generation orally in the form of family traditions.
Under Soviet rule, people avoided advertise aristocratic origins and pedigrees of many for this reason, have sunk into oblivion.Relations between generations everywhere interrupted.It is only in our times erupted again interest in the life of previous generations.Many were interested in the question - how to make a family tree?Where to begin?What documents are needed?This article is designed to help in the painstaking and extremely exciting lesson - drawing up their own ancestry.
Before you make a family tree of his own family, you need to gather as much information from all possible sources.These sources include, in addition to the available official documents, old photographs, letters, diaries, articles in the press, as well as oral stories - memories of older relatives.
the preparatory stage of creating a family tree should be put together, to consider and organize all existing documents.It is desirable to have a blog that will be updated with new data.The documents (birth certificates and marriage certificates, diplomas, certificates, employment records, etc.), Photos, letters, newspaper notes need to be expanded in a separate envelope.Such an envelope or a file you need to have for each family member.Valuable documents for safekeeping better scan or take with them copies of the originals in a safe place away.
On each representative should be to have a kind of leaf-form with a detailed list of data.First of all, last name, first name, for women - surname before marriage and in marriage, the date and the exact place of birth, date of death and place of burial, a title (if any), place of work (service) and the profession, positions and ranks.It is worth mentioning all the possible professional achievements, awards, published works and inventions.
useful in the form of each member of the genus include information on religion, date and place of baptism, social class, origin of the spouses and their relatives, as well as on the availability of real estate (house, mansion) of the place of residence in chronological order.Premarital name of spouse, date, location wedding, birth and baptism of children - all of this information would be useful and necessary when thinking about the question of how to make the pedigree.
invaluable source of information will be oral memories of relatives.You can daisy-chaining of the older generation, or to organize a family reunion, back to any important event in the life of the family.Having got talking about the events of bygone days, you can get a lot of important information - relatives will remember details of past events, clarify and complement each other.To avoid losing information, outlines the chaotic and often sketchy, it's best to use the recorder.Later records should be sorted out, draw on paper and add to the existing informal information about this or other relative.
interviewed the relatives, go for additional information in public archives.First of all, the local library reading rooms, where there are newspaper files of previous years.Archival documents can also be found in museums and various departments.Finding the information you need, ask for a photocopy or a certified extract from the document.Keep in mind that there are professionals who know how to make a family tree correctly and taking into account all the nuances.For a fee, they will be working on your application archive, which can be made in a free form.
After gathering all the information, proceed to the execution of search results on paper.Decide how to make a family tree - ascending (the descendants of the ancestors) or descending (from ancestors to descendants).Show your own race can be in the form of a tree whose trunk - the common ancestor of the founding family, and the crown - the descendants.It can be as a "trunk" to take the protagonist - Compiled by ancestry, and "branches" to make his relatives on the paternal and maternal lines.Pedigree can also take the form of a table.
options on how to make a family tree set.You can, for example, to conduct gender-type pedigree (trace only lines of men - successors kind or only women) can be mixed.Graphic images can be vertical or horizontal, generation may be numbered for clarity.In recent years, also appeared in the form of genealogical essays containing the text description of each person with the addition of the necessary materials (photos, letters, notes, and so forth.).
