How to gather information about ancestors, interview the elders, keep heritage documents, and bring family history alive for the generations to come.
21 articles published in 4 categories.
A bereavement fund is among the most practical things a large family does: every member contributes a little each year, and when a death occurs the bereaved household receives help immediately without...
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In almost every family using a lineage system, there are a few people who will never log in themselves: a grandmother who is not comfortable with a smartphone, and children too young to have an accoun...
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A family tree is not ordinary data. It holds a mother's full name, dates of birth, places of birth and family relationships — the same combination banks and government offices use to verify your ident...
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The question worth asking before putting ten years of work into any lineage system: can I get it back out? What GEDCOM is GEDCOM (Genealogical Data Communication) is a standard text file format for l...
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It happens more often than people expect: two people who have never met each build a family tree, and at some point realise that an ancestor in both records is the same person. Why a merge cannot be...
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Every large family has one person who runs the annual gathering, and that person usually spends more time chasing answers than planning the event. The real problem is not the invitation Invitations a...
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Most families have a shoebox full of photographs. A large part of it has already become faces without names. This is a loss that happens quietly: the photograph is still there, still sharp, still well...
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A complete family tree can tell you that your great-grandfather moved from Kedah to Perak in 1946. It cannot tell you why. That is why family stories are not decoration on a lineage. They are the part...
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Most inheritance disputes in a family do not begin as arguments about money. They begin as arguments about who the heirs are. Three different instruments Wasiat (a will) — instructions that take eff...
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