Last week, I reviewed Our Family Tree — Create a New Family Heirloom. This creatively-designed, fill-in-the-blank, bound family history gives the owner a chance to preserve their family history by recording their details and stories in a beautiful hardbound book. Rosemary A. Chorzempa has created a similar book for children and beginner genealogists. My Family Tree Workbook: Genealogy for Beginners provides over 55 fill-in-the-bland forms, charts, and themed story pages.
This book is a great way to start building a family history. Not only are the pages easy to complete, each helps educate beginners in the process of researching, interviewing, and uncovering a family history. One nice aspect is the book doesn’t have just date and vital record type data forms, but also for sheets for recording important facts and even short stories. In filling out the forms, one is lead to interview family member, as well as make use of Internet and library resources. By the time someone completes this workbook they will hopefully be as addicted to genealogy as the rest of us.
Some may wish to purchase this workbook for themselves; however, at under $4 this makes an excellent gift for children, friends, and other family members. With any luck you may help start a new lifelong passion.
Contents
Preface
Climbing Your Family Tree
Me
My Beginning
Places Where I Have Lived
My Religious History
My Schools
My Favorite Things
My Special Pages
My Father
My Mother
My Brother and Sisters
My Paternal Grandfather
My Paternal Grandmother
My Maternal Grandfather
My Maternal Grandmother
My Great-grandparents
My Family Tree
My Extended Family
My Immigrant Ancestors
Autographs
Family Stories
Family Reunions and Picnics
Important People from My Ancestral Homelands
My Geography Pages
Words I Have Learned in My Ancestors’ Native Languages
Ethnic Foods I Eat
Ethnic Crafts I Have Learned
Fold Songs and Dances from My Ancestral Homelands
Ethnic Holiday Celebrations and customs
Visits to My Ancestors’ Homelands
Sample Page of Notebook Filing System
Heraldry
Pedigree Charts
Correspondence
Where to Get Help
More Things to Do
Books to Help You
Glossary
Rosemary’s Autobiography
Rosemary’s Family Tree
Copies of My Family Tree Workbook: Genealogy for Beginners is available for purchase by clicking the link; $3.95.