The traditional image of someone plotting their family tree is of a person using pen and paper and filling in the blanks. Maybe they’ll glue on a photo of their family member if there’s one available, or a snap of a portrait or something like that. The computer age hasn’t consigned those methods to the dustbin yet, but it has made it much easier to add colour and rich information to a family tree.
Indeed, there’s nothing wrong with the paper approach, and many people use their computer to make an electronic copy of something that could be printed out. Sometimes they do print it out, and book publishing facilities enable them come up with a very professional-looking result.
To leave it there is to miss a lot of the point of the internet, though. Your relatives are real people. Not only are they real people but they are vocal and they move about. Everyone knows this of course, but very little of it makes it to the internet, or even the computer. People tend to be put off by the money they imagine it’ll cost, and the skills it requires.
This is all baloney.
Suffice it to say that using a copy of the free Audacity program you can record people, and aahing out by simple pointing and clicking. If you have a computer already all you need to do to start adding recorded memories to your family tree is spend a little time on learning to edit and record with the computer.
Once you’ve got the hang of recording and editing, you’ll be able to make your family tree into much more of a history and remember – it doesn’t have to be the big events. Future generations will appreciate more than you imagine hearing someone describe how they used to walk to school across the fields, or the day the family bought its first car, just as much as hearing about the big events, like the start of a war. In fact, often, it’s the little details that will mean the most, rather than just another recollection of a well-known event.
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