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Hi Ticker
Thanks for the interest. Yes, I would still be interested to find the details.
Haven't been researching much just recently. Had a car accident in January which set me back a bit, but am just about back to normal now, so you'll see me popping up much more often soon.
Cheers
Carol

Hi Magistra
So pleased that your class took to the idea and enjoyed it.It's always great to hear about parents becoming involved, especially since I work in an area where lots of parents would much rather be in the pub or doing drugs.
I can only speak from my own experience,(not of booze and drugs, I hasten to add) so am rather biased I'm afraid.
 I think that genealogy in general is a fantastic thing  (obviously!) to teach in schools but would always offer the children the opportunity to research someone other than their own family, for the reasons I mentioned in my last post.
Lastly, well done for being enthusiastic enough to want to share your knowledge of the subject with your class and not being 100% bound by what the curriculum demands!!
Carol

It would be lovely to be able to do this sort of thing  in school, but as a teaching assistant who often has to 'pick up the pieces' when children are upset, I think that asking young children to look into thier own family history could be a really risky idea,especially in a primary school. Not only do some children not know who their father is, what about those who are adopted, or, as in my own case, have a deceased parent when they are still very young? I would have been devastated to be asked to produce this kind of homework..much too painful and probably even more difficult after my father remarried.
Needs a very careful approach.
Carol

Things get even more confusing when parents sadly lost a child in infancy after registering them. Often they would call their next born child by the same name and given that in those days it was not that unusual for two babies to be born in the same year....nightmare time for the genealogist! Why do we do this???

Carol