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FAMILY RECORD

 

FREE PRINT OUT GENEALOGY RESEARCH FORMS - CHARTS and RESEARCH LOGS ? IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED!

I've posted a number of pretty charts that may inspire you when you have completed your research and are ready to calligraphy or print neatly. 

This may surprise you but I don't like ANY of the free research charts that are offered by big genealogy databases or genealogy clubs that I've found. I mean the ones you use while you're doing your research. 

My main reasons are:

NOT ENOUGH ROOM : Lines or boxes too close together. To handprint or type in these you may have to read with a magnifying glass. 

PRESUMPTONS ABOUT HOW MANY CHILDREN BORN IN A FAMILY.  Some family group forms are limited to two pages. There isn't even an option to list more than seven children such as a third or fourth page.

BAPTISMAL DATES MORE IMPORTANT THAN BIRTH DATES. One of my big issues is that the what is more important to genealogy is the birth date.  When every child in the village seems to have been baptized within days of its birth, OK, maybe that's not too far off, but I've found the baptismals that took place months after the birth too. In the databases the baptismal date is being used instead. This means you have to read the originals and go back and forth a few months at least. Some of these forms are overly religious to me.

THE SOLUTION?  Just type it out, neatly, and KEEP CONSISTANT TO YOUR OWN FORMAT.

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GOODBYE MOTHER HELLO WOMAN : ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY BOOK RECOMMENDATION

 

This is the book to read when you want a new relationship with your mother or your daughter. It's designed to be a workbook.  To start you may want to think about what kind of relationship you have now.  Five categories: Best Buddies, Never the Twain Shall Meet, Friends, Nothing in Common, or Strangers.  As a blurb at the start of the book says, most women do not want to be their mothers! So much comes into play; generational differences, personalities, old and ongoing conflicts, world views.

I don't usually include books of the self-help type in this blog, but the FAMILY MAPING and making GENOGRAMS as illustrated in this book is something that I suspect most people who are doing their genealogy are already doing - in their minds. 

Those squares are for the paternal line, the circles for the maternal.  There are even icons you can use when you make your map for died, divorced, conflicted, Indentical twins, and so on.  The idea is to briefly list, under each person on your map or chart, something about their career, personality - the negatives and positives which might be your personal experience or opinion.  Mapped out like this, you might make your own personal genogram and come to some realizations.

Do I suggest you publish such a genogram or family map in your book? Absolutely not.  This is just for you. It's not a suggestion that anyone reveal such personal things to anyone in a book or in a database or on the internet.  Some things are sacred and that should include your personal relationship information.  However, mother's day is coming up, and you have time to read this book and maybe give it as a gift.

That's a hint!

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