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Burrow Digger
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Just out of curiosity, I'm waiting for the day my son comes from school and says, "Mom I have to do my family tree with 4 generations. And I have to ask them questions about what life was like last century".
How would all you genealogists respond?
Would you respond by printing out the entire family tree of 100 pages and saying, Here you are. 
Or do tell your son to tell the teacher, my mother did all that, theres nothing for me to do.
Or anything else you can think of?
BD
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Jaki
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Actually had my great niece come home from school a few months back with that exact thing to do.
Gave her the basic information, names and dates, and let her draw up the tree .... and was told by her mother .... my niece .... you started researching at the right time.
Now my great niece likes hearing what new stuff i find.
Jaki
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OK Charles Henry Kingwell when did you arrive in Australia? Coates - Warwickshire, Staffordshire?? Hall - Warwickshire, Yorkshire Hirst - Yorkshire Kingwell, Bulley, Bunce - Devon Sample - Northumberland, Durham Shipp - Gloucester MacGillivray, Grant, Forbes, McBean - Scotland
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Arranroots
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The first part of the task is the research: learning to ask the right questions, of the right people to extract the information you need.
The second part is empathy. Schools place increasing emphasis these days on discovering what it was like for others at given times in history. Children are encouraged to imagine "what it was like" and first hand accounts from relatives have a much greater importance for the child than anything heard at school. (Of course you have to hope Grandad doesn't embellish TOO MUCH!!) 
Then there is the act of presenting the information: choosing a format that suits the child's personality. Can they draw? do they like writing? would they prefer to use a computer?
As always the adult's role is to support and encourage - much harder than doing it for them, as we all know, when we consider ourselves minor experts!!
I have an "autobiography" that I was asked to do at school when I was ten. One of the best things I ever did - and look what it led to!!
Arranroots
(You're sorry you asked now, aren't you? )
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS WIL: WEBB, SALTER RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK) |
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Siouxzie
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When my 9 year old had to do a family tree for a school project. I am afraid I just used it as an excuse for blatant showing off!
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Greenwich, London-BEARMAN/JOHNSON/GREENE Barking Essex-BEARMAN Manchester- NEWALL/Newell or variants, LOLLEY/Lolly,WALL Shropshire- WALL Cheshire- MADDOCK/CARTER/PERCIVAL Windsor, Berkshire - MILES Buckinghamshire - MILES Monmouthshire - JAMES & MORRIS Herefordshire- FLEET Yorkshire- SHIPLEY & GRAY Sussex- EDWARDS & KNIGHT Wiltshire/Hampshire-WATERS Wolverhampton area Staffordshire- ASTON Staffordshire- LOLLEY Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Rod In Sussex
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Memento Mori
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I used to ask about the last century when I was young. In those days I was thinking about pre 1900 when Victoria was Queen!
Rod
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Jones, Ellis, Barker, Bates, Hackney, Cooper, Kirk, Eyre, Davies, Harris, Doney & Pearce.
Sussex, Cornwall, Lincolnshire, to name but a few!
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alllegs
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As a trainee teacher I have to do a presentation next week on History in the National Curriculum and why it is important for children to be able to relate historical events to their own lives......I can't wait to qualify and get my class researching their family trees and to find out how things in history have affected their lives and their own identities...
Bring it on!!
Legs
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukDUR-Bainbridge,Hodgson,Richardson,Walker,Thompson,Armory,Wynn,Humble,Dunn,Chapman,Herin YKS-Bradley,Hellawell,Dransfield,Sanderson,Gledhill,Mallinson,Tyas,Thornton,Nobel,Brook,Senior,Bower,Kay,Hirst,Smith,Lockwood,Clayton,Rollinson,Swallow NTHNTS-Hubbard,Line,Goate,Tyler,Weed,Warren,Brown,Hollowell,Bird,Kirby,Dolby,Gilbert,Wootton NFK-Burton,Myhill,Fisher,Thompson LNRK-Neilson,Dudson,Forrest,McNight,Paterson WL-Williams |
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