Unfortunately, today's young people know little about their relatives who lived three or four generations ago. In addition to parents, they keep in memory, if they managed to catch, grandparents, more rarely - great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers. Plus uncle-aunts and cousins-sisters. And even more distant ancestors have a very vague idea!
Family tree
But it was not always so. Even at the beginning of the 20th century in Russia, not only representatives of noble families, but also petty bourgeoisie, peasants knew very well what kind of tribe they were, they were well-oriented in cousins and cousins and could list all the branches of their families almost from their foundations. Archives, notes, diaries, parish books - all together, these documents were a family tree, created by each member of the family. Here you can also include picturesque portraits, which were supposed to preserve for posterity the appearance of their ancestors. Then there were photos, already in our time - videotapes, but the connection of generations, alas, was interrupted. How to fix the situation? What can you offer a modern man who wants to study the history of the genus, learn more about his predecessors? Also try to make a family tree. It is not difficult to make it with your own hands. And if you bring to this close, for example, children, then such an occupation will unite and unite you. You really will feel the warmth and sanctity of family ties.
Tree only your name
The most simple variant to embody the conceived - on a large sheet of Whatman draw a silhouette of a tree. Try to make it beautiful, because every visitor of your house will see it. Draw branches, leaves, paint. Since you are making a family tree with your own hands, in the center on the branches select a place and specially draw a photo frame. If you got married recently, plan not one, but several kids, then fill the tree gradually. In the meantime, take the most successful shots, cut and paste. Decorating a family tree with their own hands is also easy. First, the photos themselves, where you are shot with relatives in different angles and situations, you can with four-legged and other pets. Secondly, paste the favorite corners of your holiday, they will then remain in history and will remind you of the happy moments of life. Well, after you have managed to make a family tree with your own hands, insert the Whatman paper into a solid, exquisite frame and hang it in an honorable place in the living room or dining room. Update it from time to time. Children, seeing such careful and interested attitude of parents to their relatives, will assimilate it and will also cherish family values.
Family tree
If it is important for you to restore the history of the family, you want to tell and leave a memory of its various representatives, then you need to go a little differently. In this case, the family tree (template), made by hand, must include a variety of branches, depending on which lines of communication you reflect. For example, parents are personally your parents, their ancestors on both sides. Brothers and sisters, their families and children. The more you know about your family, the more powerful and ramshackle will be your tree. If the images of someone are not preserved - it does not matter. In place of the photo you can enter the name and surname, occupation, profession, list the merits, if any. This, too, will be informative and interesting.
Remember that the connection with the ancestors, "love of native ashes, love of fatherly graves" - one of the components of our spirituality and tribal memory!