Getting Your Kids Involved in your Ancestral Detective Work

Getting your kids involved in researching your ancestral history is a great way to bond with your kids as well as teach your kids about your family history. It also gives the parents time to spend quality time with their kids. It can be a fun and entertaining project.

Start by writing down your own name, birth date, place of birth, parents, husband, wife (or domestic partner), date of marriage, place of marriage, children’s complete names and their dates of birth. The easiest way to get all this information in an organized manner would be to fill out a family information sheet. These can be found many places on the internet. One of the most used sites to locate this sheet is www.ancestry.com.