Table of Contents

Your Living Family Tree

Table of Contents

Introduction
Dedication and Acknowledgements
Section 1 The Idea
A Great New Idea, a Vision, and the Benefits	1
Section 2 The Parts
The Parts of Your Living Family Tree	5
The nuclear website	8
Friendly software	10
How might your living family tree appear?	11
Do you have a say in how the website looks?	14
Section 3 The Ways
The Ways Your Family Information is Shared	17
Words	18
Photos	19
Sounds	24
Video	33
Artefacts	36
Section 4 The Director
Your Living Family Tree Director	37
Finding that heroic first seed planter	37
Equipment needed	39
A Family Tree Board?	42
Family reunions	43
Getting the whole family involved	46
Focussing on the oldest and the youngest first	47
Money and bill paying	49
What do you do right now?	51
Section 5 The Future
Your Living Family Tree and the Future	55
If somebody doesn’t plant this tree now?	55
Keeping it going far into the future…	57
And if it disappears for a while?	58
Your living family tree for 200, 500, or 1000+ years	59
Appendix
Personal Information Repository	61
Sample Personal Information Birth Sheet	80
Sample Personal Information Age 15 Sheet	83
Family Directory	89
Sample Family Directory	92
Key Date List	100
Sample Key Date List	103
Family Registry: Birth, Baptism, Marriage, and Death	107
Sample Birth Registry	110
“Tip of the Hat” Acclamations	111
Sample “Tip of the Hat”	117
“In Memoriam” Announcements	119
Sample “In Memoriam”	123
Annual Family Summary	126
Sample “Annual Family Summary”	128
Family Treasures in Print	131
Family Treasure Box	133
Family Flashes	138
Ancestral Family Tree	142
Journals, Diaries, and Memoirs	146
Unforgettable Recollections	152
Scrapbooks	155
DNA and Health Concerns	158
Other Attachments	160
Index	163