Genealogy is not just a fashionable hobby, it is an amazing opportunity to realize your own involvement in a group of unique, interesting and special people - your ancestors. Interest in history is kind of natural, and you can perpetuate the history of your family for your future children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren by compiling a family tree.
Necessary
- - a folder for photos;
- - notebook;
- - pen;
- - Dictaphone;
- - a computer with an internet connection.
Instructions
Step 1
The easiest way to create a family tree is to hire professionals who, after turning over tons of dusty archives, will collect as much information as possible about your family. But this, unfortunately, is a very expensive method that is not suitable for everyone. Try to analyze your last name on your own, and it can be very interesting.
Step 2
Conduct a survey of all available relatives - both close ones living near you, and distant ones with whom you have not communicated for a very long time. Go to the village to see your great-aunt, write a letter to your second-cousin. Your task is to get as much information as possible from your family. If your surname is original (that is, there are few namesakes in the city or even the country), then try to contact them - most likely, they are your distant relatives, about whom you do not know.
Step 3
Write down all the information you receive so that it will be easier for you to analyze the data. Create a folder for photos, documents and notes, you can also buy a voice recorder. Check the information you have, as some people, especially the elderly, often confuse events or exaggerate them.
Step 4
Go to the archive in order to verify the information received from relatives, as well as to further investigate the history of your last name. The archive will have to collect information literally bit by bit from numerous sources - this usually takes a long time. It is in this place that registers of births are kept, in which priests recorded significant events - birth, death, marriage. You can search for scanned documents on the official website of the Federal Archival Agency of Russia. In the event that your ancestor was a military man - go to the archives of the Ministry of Defense, if a priest - look for data in clerical books.
Step 5
For admission to work in the archive, write a statement addressed to the head of the archive. In the application, indicate your passport details (you need to have a passport with you), list in detail the materials you are interested in (for example, documents of the 27th army or information about IA Sidorov), as well as the purpose of collecting information (for example, "for the family archive"). In addition, you will be asked to confirm your agreement with the rules for working in the archive in writing.
Step 6
After collecting all kinds of material, arrange it properly. Create a family tree by pasting photographs of the years of the ancestors' lives. You can find blanks on the Internet or draw a tree yourself.
