Procedures
Your personal family history is also a part of your heritage. This
project will enable you
to:
- Gain practical skills in writing history.
- Identify your connection to the history
of the world and
other nations.
- Learn more about your own individual
heritage.
- Create a primary source for future
generations to study.
ASSIGNMENT: You are to write your own family
history. This
project consists
of two
main parts:
1. A data sheet with birth, marriage, death,
etc.. information
going
back to your
great-great-grandparents (see example). This should be filled out as
completely as
possible, although you are not expected to have data for everything.
2. A written family history, which can be a
collection of oral
history interviews:
OPTION ONE:
- Minimum 1 page handwritten on your
grandparents generation.
- Minimum 2 pages handwritten on your
parents generation.
- Minimum 2 pages handwritten on your
generation.
OPTION TWO:
- Create a book (based on the template
above) OR
- Create a Power Point presentation (ask
the teacher for a
template)
- Do a documentary style video
3. All Students must also prepare a class presentation. You
may include: pictures, memorabilia, documents, etc...that the
class might
find interesting
This can be carefully displayed OR take photos with a digital camera or
scan the item to include in a Power Point Presentation.
4. DUE DATES:
- Rough Draft: September 18th
- FINAL COPY DUE October 5th
- Presentation: The week of October 16th
You do not need to turn in your notecards, outline, and rough draft
with
your final copy.
. The notecards, outline,
and rough draft
are required to help you prepare an excellent family history narrative.
These are not
needed for your family data sheet. The only two items that MUST be
turned in on the final
due date are your family data sheet and your written family history.
Other pictures and
memorabilia may also be included.
If you type your report, please use either
Arial or Times New
Roman
font faces with 12 or
14 point type. Please make sure to double space the text of your
report.
Remember that
one page of handwritten work equals approximately 2/3 of a page that
is typed and double
spaced with 12 or 14 point type.
Here are some ideas of things you might wish
to include in
your family
history:
- anecdotes and stories
- vacations
- milestones
- occupations
- war and the military
- geography
- sports and leisure
Here are some of the places where you might be able to find
information:
- living relatives
- other previously written family histories
- cemeteries
- county records
- marriage licenses
- pictures
- writing family members
- personal visits
