have you tried making a family tree
By udayrao2
@udayrao2 (781)
India
January 29, 2010 10:33pm CST
Have any of you tried making your family tree?
I tried but came to a dead end after going back 2 generations - I wanted to go back at least 5 to 6 if more but could not as my both maternal & paternal grandparents ( my paternal grandmother died when I was 9 years) died before I was born and my parents only knew their parents as their grandparents also died before they were born - in fact my mother's parents died when she was very young about 10 so she also did not know much about ancestors.
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12 responses
@jwfarrimond (4473)
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2 Feb 10
Yes, I have been researching my family tree for more than 10 years now. Your closest relatives memories are just the starting point in research. Having made that start, then you have to start to look at records of births, marriages and deaths (if such records exist) to extend the family tree backwards. There are plenty of online resources available for research, but how useful these are to you depends on where you live.
I'm familiar with the records available in the UK, which is where I live, but for anywhere else, you will need to do your own research to find what is available. It might be useful to contact a local or national geneological society if there is one, as they will be able to give you a great deal of information and help.
@jwfarrimond (4473)
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4 Feb 10
It is time consuming, but I've found it very facinating and I've come into contact with people as far away as Canada and the USA who are researching the same very extended family tree. I think that it puts your own life into context as well as putting me into contact with relatives who I never knew existed before I began my research. I only wish that I had begun it much sooner when my parents were still alive - especially may father.
@ANIME123 (2466)
• United States
30 Jan 10
No I think that it would be to much work for me. My family is so big that it would take so long for me to accomplish. Maybe one day when I am an old lady I will do one to know who my family was. It would be nice to see who you are related to in this world. You never know you can be related to people that are even famous and not know it.
@roysudeep007 (216)
• India
30 Jan 10
I didn't tried to make the family tree but as I thought of making it my father told that my cousins had already made the family tree for the 3 generation back and 1 generation ahead of my generation.They had put it in their site and they update it if any of them has a child.I went there and saw they had done really well to make the tree and it was huge as it contained 5 generations.
@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
30 Jan 10
Wow! That's really great! I just wonder, what are your resources in finding informationa about your ancestors? My family and I do that too and we have worked on three generations back and we are still working on the 4th generation now. Knowing about our family tree or our ancestors is more than just knowing their names, we can actually do more for them. In my religion, family history and genealog is really very important. =)
@udayrao2 (781)
• India
30 Jan 10
Thanks that's great to hear - in fact can you or anyone else reading this comment inform me how to make a family tree on the computer - manually I know or can do it even type it out on word - but I am also looking at something like a software, where we just fill in at the appropriate places and everything fits and can be read or recorded later.
And by the way in our religion too family lineage is important because in some religious rites where they take the full names of ancestors.
@aauecon06 (204)
• Philippines
30 Mar 10
I have done a family tree years back when I was still a high school. It was our project in our Research subject and we have to go back for four generations including us. It was so great since I haven't really know the middle initial of my mother back then. Then I found their surnames (Great Grands) really awesome because its so different to us. I have also known how many kids they had, their love stories and how did they live. :)
@unstopabble (452)
• Philippines
24 Apr 10
we havent done it yet. but i think it would be fun. ill talk about my siblings about this. hope we can find our ancestors.and who knows it might be some hero or something.hehehe. but thanks for sharing your ideas.
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
30 Jan 10
Yes, but in my family it is easier because once we get to my grandfather's generation, the city his family came from kept a family tree on record. And I am not the first one to try to make a family tree, so really it's just a matter of adding new children on to the current family tree.
@Zhizho (1350)
• Indonesia
30 Jan 10
Yes,My cousins and I have try to making family tree because we would like to count how many my grandma's grandchilds.My first cousin (first grandchild of my grandma) has grandchilds. So, can you imagine that she has 4 generation.And my grandma is still life.She was 97 years old.
@veronizm (907)
• Philippines
2 Feb 10
Hi udayrao! I've always wanted to make a family tree. I'm quite curious of who my previous generations were. But up until now, I haven't really made one yet. In fact, your discussion kind of like reminded me to make one, LOL. I also would like to trace upto the 5th or 6th generation, but if I can't trace it then that's fine with me as well. The family tree that I would make will just serve as reference for my next generations to come :) Then I can teach my children to make one as well, or use the one that I already made and just add their names in it :) So that perhaps in the years to come, it will then become a historic artifact :D
@indocorner (546)
• Indonesia
30 Jan 10
No, never. I just know my grandpa n granma as well as some of their sisters n brothers.
