How to make a family tree

How to make a family tree

The science Genealogy, gives us the chance to track our related interrelations, to learn sort history, to establish new family relations. It is necessary to be ready to the fact that opening as pleasant, and not really, historical events of a sort is possible.

What it is better to begin with? It is necessary to make a family tree.

1. It is necessary to see the family photo albums and the available documents containing important data it can be certificates various, about marriage, the birth, the death of members of families. A large number of useful information is might contain by diplomas, diplomas, labor books. Then it is worth making copies of these documents and to divide them into two groups – on the maternal and fatherly line. And it is better if for each family member it is got separate the daddy.

2. Be engaged in collection of information directly at relatives. Surely write down important data in a notebook or on a dictophone not to forget and do not pass the main details. Thanks to modern technologies, it is possible to contact relatives who live near not, using at the same time phone or the Internet. All questions should be thought over in advance. Information.3 will be for certain received important, for search of communications. If suddenly, for any reason, it was not succeeded to collect the necessary amount of information from relatives, then it is possible to address to archive. For this purpose you need to know completely names and dates of birth and also an occupation of required characters.4. When all information is collected, remained, using the available data, to make a family tree. There are several options of drawing up. The ascending genealogy – when a trunk is the specific person, and here branches symbolize his relatives, large – parents, and small – grandmothers, grandfathers, etc. Descending, on the contrary, means in the ancestor's trunk, and branches it is his descendants. Use also circular tables. Place the person who became interested in the sort in the center, divide a circle into two parts, enter data on ancestors on maternal and fatherly lines in each of which. For fans of availability and simplicity, it is possible to use the genealogical table in which each generation settles down on the line which has to be filled on seniority from left to right. Each of the presented options, it is possible to issue according to a framework of your imagination. For example, the tree can be painted as it is done in Western. Every color can conceal in itself information on children and marital status of the person. By various geometrical figures it is possible to designate information on male and female representatives of a sort. For an example we will consider the most detailed option, so-called genealogical painting. Thus, the most distant of our ancestors will be at No. 1 of the first knee. And so on, at first we specify number of fathers mothers, then number of the child. For example: The I knee 1. NikitaII knee 1.1. Alexander (had no children) 1.2. Sergey Nikitovich 1.3. Svetlana Nikitovna1.4. Andrey Nikitovich the III knee 1.2.1. the first child of Sergey - Olga Sergeyevna 1.2.2. the second child of Sergey - Evgeny Sergeevich1.3.1. the first child of Svetlana - Aleksandr1.3.2. the second child of Svetlana - Anna 1.4.1. the first child of Andrey - Anastasiya1.4.2. the second child of Andrey - MihailIV a knee Children of all representatives of the III knee 1.2.1.1. the first child of Olga - ZhannaI so further according to the scheme It is possible to note also available information on each family member. Thanks to genealogy, you will be able to unite seven one hobbies which will allow to spend leisure-time with interest and to learn a lot of new about the sort. 

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


Print