The further back you go up the different lines, the more of the world becomes part of your own history. What’s true of Genghis Khan and Princess Pocahuntas is true of us all. We see how genealogy has been important to stories, from the time of Homer and Virgil, and make up an imaginary story and family tree of our own.įamily trees show how far our ancestors have travelled. Many children’s stories, from Harry Potter to The Lord of the Rings, have a solid kernel of family history. Of mice, drawfs and wizards… family history in stories The activity section explains how to make a family tree illustrated with family pictures, so we can see how we do (or don’t) resemble our relatives. What did your ancestors look like? This chapter explores old family pictures and photographs, how to find them and what they can tell you. Old photographs: making an illustrated family tree We next explore complicated family relationships, from great grandparents to third cousins twice removed, and learn all about ancestral uncles, in particular one of Prince William’s – Dracula! We discover how to store family history information in a Family History Box. Grandpa’s sister’s daughter: who’s who in your family? We learn how to make family trees in modern and Medieval fashion, and also how to make stemmas, thus resuscitating a practise that has been forgotten in the British Isles for one-and-half thousand years. We learn how to write down our own family information on specially provided Family History Forms.Ĭhapter three explains how the Romans started recording their genealogies as diagrams called stemmas, and how these became family trees. We then discover how people started writing their genealogies down in Sumerian, Greek and Roman times, how the practise spread to Britain, and why Julius Caesar believed he was descended from a goddess. We learn how to remember our ancestry, as told by our own older relatives, Maori style. The book starts by explaining how the roots of genealogy lie in oral tradition, as told by the grannies of our cave-dwelling ancestors who lived thousands of years ago, and also as told by our own grannies today.
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