What is a Family Tree and Why to Create it
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Can you imagine how large is your family?
You know that you are the part of the huge family, but you don’t feel that.
Why?
Because you can’t image how large your family is. Our brain has to see some things to understand them.
Do you want to feel a sense of belonging to your family? Do you care about that?
The family tree causes an explosion of the emotional side of our being. Its greatest value is emotional, because it leaves no one indifferent, especially not the people whose names are on it.
I speak this from experience. These are the words of my clients.
When someone asks you what is most important to you, you will say health and family. I know, I answer the same. But do you really feel that closeness and connection with your family?
You are a leaf that doesn’t know how huge its tree is. Do you know where is your root? Root gave you the life.
If you have the information about your family tree collected, you can easy create your family tree. See the examples that I created on my web site here (pages “Free design” and “Shop”).
If you don’t have collected information, you can start working on it.
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HOW TO START WITH YOUR FAMILY TREE
The main information you should record for your family tree is:
- Names and surnames.
- Important dates: birth, marriage, death, migration…
Other information you can research and write down is:
- Causes or circumstances of death.
- Professions
- Significant events: stories, anecdotes
- The most important symptoms and diseases of members of your family tree
- One very interesting topic for me is the eye color of family members
Eye color of extended family members became especially important to me when I gave birth to children with blue eyes, but my husband and I have brown eyes. Also our parents. The genes skipped two generations, but manifested themselves in the third. My children have inherited my grandfather’s (mother’s father) eye color. Most of his extended family has blue eyes and blond hair.
I am researching the eye color of all members of the extended family, in order to create a “Blue-eyes Family Tree” and one day show children how their eye color is part of the genes of one big family.
I wish you luck in researching and creating your family tree. Go for that sense of belonging! I’m here to help answer the questions you encounter along the way.
Branka, Family Tree Art