I often hear discussed the need to get children involved in family history. We all know children are the future. Getting children involved in family history at an early age can help ensure someone in the family will be around to take over the research of older generations, protect the work, and cherishing the memories left behind. However, the questions always remain, how to get youth involved and how to teach them the research skills they need in a way they will understand?
Roots for Kids: A Genealogy Guide for Young People helps answer these questions. Unlike other books intended to help adults get children involved, this book is written for the children themselves. Basing this book on a 12 week course she created, Susan Provost Beller, leads young readers through a step-by-step process to understanding, appreciating, and actively doing genealogy.
In this book, children will learn the meaning of new words like vital records, generations, and probate. They will learn to fill in pedigree charts and family group records. Kids will discover the joy of finding their ancestors in census, church, and cemetery records. Kids will learn the joy of successful research. Most importantly, kids will learn of their ancestors in a way as to gain a true appreciation for their own family’s story.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition
Preface
1 An Introduction to Genealogy
2 You and Your Family
3 Your Parents’ Families
4 Asking Questions: Genealogy as Oral History
5 Putting It All Together
6 Kinds of Records Found Locally
7 Finding Local Records on the Internet
8 Kinds of State and National Records
9 Online Searching in Genealogy Databases
10 Evaluating Your Information
11 Research Around the World on Your Computer
12 The Ultimate Field Trip
Appendices
- Blank Forms
- Resources for Researching your Family
Index
Roots for Kids: A Genealogy Guide for Young People makes an excellent birthday or Christmas gift for the children in your family. Order a copy today from Family Roots Publishing; Item #:GPC422.
Wonderful news! For those of you who have old copies of Heritage Quest Magazine or the CD with the early copies on it, check for my column for kids that ran there for several years. Later, there were also some kids’ activity pages. Good to see it being resurrected here.