Genealogy is a popular hobby and can add a lot of fun to the
life of a senior. It is a way of
preserving your family history and passing it along to children and
grandchildren. It can be done manually
but the new way is with computers and there are a number of software packages
available. Check them out and see what
information they have available. There are a number of very good web sites
available.
Tracing down your roots can be like solving a good murder
mystery. You organize the information
about your family and go from there.
There are genealogy classes offered at a number of different locations,
i.e. community colleges, genealogy clubs, and libraries. Putting together a genealogical record of
your family can be a wonderful way preserve family stories and pass them on to
future generations. Besides, it is like
eating salted peanuts – you find one ancestor and the race is on.
You might also want to do an ethical will. An ethical will is a document that
incorporates what you have learned about life – your values, your belief system
– in other words, all those good things you hope your children have learned
from you.
Some helpful genealogy web sites follow:
Familysearch (Church of the Latter Day Saints)
Cyndi’s List
www.findagrave.com Genealogy
Rootsweb
www.usgenweb.org Worldgenweb
Geneanet
www.newberry.org
Ancestry
Lineages
Age of Reason –
click on genealogy
