[mom_of_jcchlsm]

I thought of stating another thread for this, but decided it overlaps enough with my last post here:

Ways I have sucessfully involved my kids in genealogy:

1. They know that at age 12, they will need some family names to take to the Temple to do baptisms. They have to do the research themselves and submit the disc and everything. I have conveniently forgotten to tell them that the Temple will provide names if they don't have any family names ready to go. Of course, they figure that out on their first trip to the Temple, but by then they already know how to do it.

2. I've made pedigree chart puzzles. Two kinds have worked -- a regular chart laminated and cut up and also a blank chart laminated with the names laminated seprately (put he names in the right spaces on the chart). It's important to make one for each child - they really like putting their own name on the chart! Somehow it totally loses its appeal if your sibling is person number one.

3. Family Tree shirts. For a reunion, we all wore matching T-shirts onto which we had drawn trees showing how we were related to others at the reunion.

4. We have an occassional FHE dedicated to an ancestor or ancestral family group.

5. For a long time we had a huge paper chain family tree extending back 5 generations. Each person was either dark or light pink or blue (showing gender and whether or not individual Temple ordinances were complete) and each family group was linked by either a black or white paper link (whether or not the family had been sealed). Whenever my husband and I went to the Temple, the kids helped us swap out links to show the progress we had made. But eventualy, all we had left were the dark and black links for living family members who were not Church members.


What ideas do you have?