We don't do enough of this today. I am so guilty myself. My mother is 84 ... her brother is 86. If their stories and knowledge of my ancestors is not recorded soon, it will be harder to find later on ... if not impossible.ge·ne·al·o·gyDictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
[jee-nee-ol-uh-jee, -al-, jen-ee-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -gies.
1. a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
2. the study of family ancestries and histories.
3. descent from an original form or progenitor; lineage; ancestry.
4. Biology. a group of individuals or species having a common ancestry: The various species of Darwin's finches form a closely knit genealogy. [Origin: 1250–1300; ME genealogie <>geneālogia <>geneālogía pedigree, equiv. to generace (see gene) + -logia -logy
]
—Related formsge·ne·a·log·i·calge·ne·a·log·i·cal·ly, adverbge·ne·al·o·gist, noun
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
A Yahoo search of the term "genealogy" offers 70,500,000 results. (That's 70.5 MILLION). Google shows 38,600,000. Clearly I'm not the only one thinking about this.
If you've started on yours ... congratulations and good job!
If you haven't started gathering information about your family and ancestors, what's keeping you? :) For myself, I'm always a bit daunted at the beginning of a big job ... and this task can be HUGE! Luckily for folks like us, there are bazillions of resources, both on and off-line. Most local libraries have a genealogy section where you can find valuable local records. Probably the biggest repository of physical records in the word is maintained by the LDS Church (Mormons) in Salt Lake City, Utah.
If you want to create a record of names, dates and events (birth, marriage, etc) for your family, two indispensable forms will be the "Family Group Record" and the "Pedigree Chart". I'm having trouble getting the links to work, so am providing another source: (Family Group Record), (Pedigree Chart).
The FGR allows you to record information for a biological father, mother and their children. In case of a couple without children, you can just use the "husband" and "wife" spaces.
The PC starts with one person and traces their mother and father, and maternal and paternal ancestors - and usually covers four generations, although I have seen them with as many as eleven generations covered. Just in case anyone is interested, 11 generations is 2,047 people!
If you've got any questions, please feel free to ask.
I guess it had been a while since my last entry on genealogy, so some of this information is repeated, but if anyone's interested, here is my previous entry on the subject: http://familyhomeworkshop.blogspot.com/2007/07/roots.html.
2 comments:
Thank you for Blog Rolling me, I think this will be a great way of keeping more in touch with the other Maya's Mom Bloggers! I'm going to do this to.
I have two close friends that are serious into genealogy right now. I haven't started any research myself yet ... I'm working up to it. See ya.
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