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Mini Unit Study: Genealogy
by Kathryn Martinez (Kathryn's bio)
[Note: If you'd like to read more from Kathryn, be sure to check out her web site.]
Genealogy is defined as the study of family relations. This can be a wonderful unit to share with your child and can help introduce the concept of history; or, can be used to make the concept of history more applicable to their own life.
Some very simple activities are:
1. Learn the meaning of your first name.
2. Compare naming traditions in your family, in your country or ethnic group, or in other countries or religions.
3. Make up a name for yourself.
4. Uncover the origins of your last name.
5. Illustrate you name.
6. Count the members of your family.
7. Write a short essay on your grandparents’ lives.
8. Start a family history scrapbook.
9. Make a scrapbook for yourself.
10. Chart your family tree. Include a pedigree chart and/or a family group sheet.
11. Design a family crest or find out if your family already has one.
12. If your family, or a branch of your family, spoke a language other than what they currently speak (e.g., English vs. Spanish) try learning to say some common phrases.
Some websites that you might be interested at looking at are:
Ancestry
Family Search
Gendex
Rootsweb
Copyright 2001 Kathryn Martinez. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
| About Kathryn Martinez: I'm a SAHM, home schooling mother of 4 children, 1 husband, and a neurotic cat. This is our sixth year of home schooling. I worked for over 10 years at USF in an education and training department. I hope that by sharing my experience with other home schoolers, both the new and the not-so-new and those just considering home schooling, I will pass along all the help that was given to me when I first started out. |