How to make a family tree

How to make a family tree

Often to school students give homework - to make the family tree and it is beautiful to issue it. And at times and adults without someone's coercion decide to keep family archive of photos and to make for memory for descendants a beautiful family tree. Anyway, whatever reasons roused you to this labor-consuming, but interesting process, there are several ways by means of which you will be able to decorate the house with a patrimonial tree in a frame.

Instruction

1. Choose photos of your family for drawing up a family tree. If it is not a pity for originals, you can cut out the faces of relatives directly from pictures. However many prefer to make on the copy printer, or to scan a photo and to unpack. In the course of selection of pictures you will understand, where exactly in your family tree white spots that is which of ancestors you do not know by sight whose image did not remain. However, there is an occasion to contact relatives and to take an interest at them whether they store a photo of the cousin great-grandmother.

2. Be defined how you will represent a tree of your family tree. If there are skills in drawing, it is possible to draw on a Whatman paper a tree with own hand. If is not present - on the Internet enough templates of similar trees and also the programs allowing to create a family tree on the computer and then to unpack.

3. When the tree is ready, begin to fill it with names and photos of your sort. From below, at krone, data of your oldest relatives about which you know have to be had. Information can be incomplete, for example, without photo, or a middle name, but everything that you know to keep history for your descendants is desirable to enter. Standard registration looks so: a photo in an oval (or an empty oval), under it a rectangle with an inscription: a surname-name-middle name of the person, date of birth and death if it already came. Sometimes the occupation is written in a family tree, for example: Afanasy Petrov, carpenter.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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