Create my family tree

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i just think it would be interesting.
i have started trying to collect information but things arent going well. alot of our family knowledge stops after two/three generations. we dont even know what country they come from- my great grandad was not big on sharing information about family with my greatgrandmother.i am not giving up, this goal is just proving a little more difficult to achieve than i first anticipated.

I went to ancestry.com and started one. I got lucky because a distant relative had already made one so I was able to get a lot of info off their page.

im trying to find the names of menbers i’ve not known

prompted by an invitation on Facebook. Its a pretty basic format, and there are some limits in getting the application to mend to my complicated family structure, but it a good jumping off point. Made me realize how much I do and don’t know. I emailed a few questions to my parents and really look forward to interviewing my grandparents.

The best feature is its ability to link to others via Facebook and allow them to add and connect. Christian’s cousin is the one who sent it to me and I am hoping she will get into adding to her side of the family. There is so much family in South Africa that we have never met and know little about.

The worst feature is that it doesn’t allow you see it all at once. You have to follow each name and it becomes a bit of a maze of links. I want a printable version I can hang on the wall and see the whole form and structure at once.

I think I am ready to expand the project and will spend a day at the library researching other formats.

I’ve done this with software.

I know a fair bit about my family tree, but i’d like to go further back and find out a bit more detail about my family

...something I’ve wanted to do for a while. Very interested in getting this done.

Found out some interesting family history this week. Am somehow related to the founder of Cornell University who is entombed in their chapel. Linda and Ian visited and took photos. I think David is the one with the details on the linkage. A cousin on the Prue side, grandma Mary’s mother grandma sis’s madien name. French Canadian. I really need to learn how to spell all of these.

I also want to find out more about who was in the calvary at Fort Robinson and which battles they were involved with. To think, my relatives may have met Crazy Horse. Even if they were responsible for his demise.

Ive completed my family tree back to the year 1787 back to my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfarther who lived in Woodton, Buckinghamshire, England.
I really enjoyed finding out about my past by talking to members of my family and searching for information on the internet