Robin C. McConnell - Tracing Your Family History with the Whole Family: A Family Research Adventure for All Ages

T RACING Y OUR

F AMILY H ISTORY

WITH THE

W HOLE F AMILY

FAMILY HISTORY FROM PEN & SWORD BOOKS

Birth, Marriage & Death Records

The Family History Web Directory

Tracing British Battalions on the Somme

Tracing Great War Ancestors

Tracing History Through Title Deeds

Tracing Secret Service Ancestors

Tracing the Rifle Volunteers

Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors

Tracing Your Ancestors

Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Death Records Second Edition

Tracing Your Ancestors through Family Photographs

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA

Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census

Tracing your Ancestors using the UK Timeline

Tracing Your Ancestors: Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk

Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors

Tracing Your Army Ancestors

Tracing Your Army Ancestors Third Edition

Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors

Tracing Your Black Country Ancestors

Tracing Your Boer War Ancestors

Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors

Tracing Your Canal Ancestors

Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors

Tracing Your Church of England Ancestors

Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors

Tracing Your Docker Ancestors

Tracing Your East Anglian Ancestors

Tracing Your East End Ancestors

Tracing Your Family History on the Internet

Tracing Your Female Ancestors

Tracing Your First World War Ancestors

Tracing Your Freemason, Friendly Society and Trade Union Ancestors

Tracing Your Georgian Ancestors, 17141837

Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors

Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Gallipoli Campaign

Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Somme

Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: Ypres

Tracing Your Huguenot Ancestors

Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors

Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet

Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors

Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors Second Edition

Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors

Tracing Your Legal Ancestors

Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors

Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors Second Edition

Tracing Your London Ancestors

Tracing Your Medical Ancestors

Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors

Tracing Your Northern Ancestors

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors Second Edition

Tracing Your Oxfordshire Ancestors

Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors

Tracing Your Police Ancestors

Tracing Your Potteries Ancestors

Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors

Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors: The First World War

Tracing Your Railway Ancestors

Tracing Your Roman Catholic Ancestors

Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors

Tracing Your Rural Ancestors

Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors

Tracing Your Servant Ancestors

Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors

Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors

Tracing Your Tank Ancestors

Tracing Your Textile Ancestors

Tracing Your Twentieth-Century Ancestors

Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors

Tracing Your West Country Ancestors

Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors

Writing Your Family History

Your Irish Ancestors

A Family Research Adventure for All Ages

ROBIN C. McCONNELL

First published in Great Britain in 2022 by

PEN AND SWORD FAMILY HISTORY

An imprint of

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Yorkshire Philadelphia

Copyright Robin C. McConnell 2022

ISBN 978 1 39901 388 8

eISBN 978 1 39901 389 5

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This Book is Dedicated

To

Diana Jayne Olsen (ne McConnell)

Family Historian & Sister Extraordinaire.

And

Penny Zipfel, Kit McConnell,

Maya Zipfel, Cleo Zipfel, Sophia McConnell,

Toby McConnell.

Bearers of the learning of life history.

T his book had considerable assistance from family and friends. The authors sister, Jayne Olsen, has been instrumental in her role as the key family genealogist. Barbara Hay has been a family history leader in the Coates-Coleman field which led to exampled realities noted in the present text. Special thanks for assistance with proofreading go to my daughter, Penny Zipfel, and to Gaynor Haliday for her thorough, and especially professional, editing and proofreading.

My son, Kit McConnell, has fostered a strong sense of historical time and place which is reflected in various parts of the text. Maya and Cleo Zipfel have the authors warm regard for their suggestions and ability to recount family history that set the scene for real-life elements of inclusion. Compiling the Cornes/Waite family tree with Lorraine Beven provided tests of the texts practicality. Judi Brennans grandchildren, Sophia and Harry Blewett, led to further considerations of what young children should learn about their family history lineage. Special thanks to Sophia and Toby McConnell for their theme photograph.

T his book is different from family history books that assume research will be carried out only by adults. It has twin goals of generating family history interests with all ages of present family members and providing practical guidelines for them on how researching family history can become an exciting whole-family enterprise. Thoughtful parents, and thoughtful genealogists working with families, can initiate a research adventure rather than an imposition leading to young family members exhibiting boredom, disinterest or even resistance. Each family member, as part of the family team, can be involved in researching their past family history and generate, for future generations, a picture of their present family history. When we know our familys history more completely, we then know ourselves more completely.

It is comparatively difficult for family leaders to locate satisfactory books providing practical advice on family members of all ages being involved in family history research. It is rare to find writing on family history with guidance for all members of a present-day family presenting their lives of today as part of the familys future. True researchers intuit that when you research for your self you research for other selfs.