Getting Started

The first thing you'll want to do is get organized and gather some general information.

Get a folder or box so you can keep everything you collect in one place. You may want to include a spiral notebook in which to write your notes and thoughts.
List as many members of your family as you can think of: immediate family members, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, more distant relatives.
Write down anything you know (or think you know) about your family and family history.
What interesting stories can you remember being told by parents or grandparents? List them briefly (example: the time Grandpa fell off the horse).
Talk to your parents and add to your list of family members, facts and stories.

This will be a source of ideas for what you can later write in a family history notebook. Get a nice three-ring notebook and as you each story or activity is finished in final draft form, add it to the notebook. You can organize the notebook at the end of the unit.