"The one who does not know the past has no future" - the ancient wisdom says. And, despite daily employment, the prompt rate of modern life, in consciousness of each person arises a question sooner or later: "Whom were my ancestors?".
It is required to you
- - photos of relatives;
- - oral certificates of the family;
- - scanner and laptop;
- - archival documents.
Instruction
1. If you seriously decided to find for information on the roots and to make the family tree, then be ready to scrupulous, long and difficult search. Begin with own parents. Ask at them that they know of their ancestors. Write down names, surnames and the cities where all relatives whom they will remember lived. Ask them to accompany the story with the remained photos. Scan photos and keep them on a flash carrier. They will be useful to you at the following stages of search.
2. Study photos on both sides. Very often on the back photos signed year and the place where the picture was made. Attach all data from photos to the records.
3. Having made itself a certain overall picture, go to grandmothers and grandfathers. You should not begin with the most senior generation. In a type of old age they can mix something, having united one event with another. Having communicated to parents and having studied photos, you will be able to reveal these discrepancies.
4. If the grandfather with the grandmother has still any photos, study and scan them. Ask the family whether there were from ancestors no relics memorable to a thing. If those are available, photograph them and show to experts to antiquaries. They will be able to tell where and when the thing is made, and you will have a new useful information.
5. At the next stage go to the cities or settlements where there lived your ancestors. Here photos will be necessary for you. To Pokazhitesamy elderly inhabitants of this area of the photo of the relatives also write down everything that will be told to you by these people.
6. If during communication it becomes clear that your ancestors arrived to this area, but did not live there all the time, request information on their former place of residence in archive. But you learn that during the Great Patriotic War many documents were lost. And if your family was military, then information on them can be secret. And your children will be able to reveal this secret already.
7. Having aggregated and having systematized all information, you can make the family tree. At the head of a tree arrange the founder of a sort. Arrange his children with their husbands or wives below, is lower than their children and their family, etc. Under each photo sign a surname, a name, a middle name and date of birth of the person.