Have Fun With the Kids With a Family Tree Project
Sparking the interest of younger children, teens and grown children when working on the Family Tree can be chore. Their attention to life usually does not include history and especially family history. They undoubtedly will have already heard some of the antidotes and facts of the current generations through contact with family members. These are the stories that provide a perfect lead in for a fact-finding project. The Christmas Season is an ideal time to give kids a jump-start on what might become a lifelong passion for them. This is a time of year when visits and telephone calls are made to family members of all ages. It is an opportune time for the kids to ask Family Tree questions of their relatives. The questions they will ask need to be specific. They also need to be generic enough to encompass both sides of their heritage. The answers the child receives will be unique to the person they ask and may not be the reply they were looking to hear. It is important that each child kno...