Many people are interested in their family history. A reliable pedigree allows you to feel that you belong to a long line of distant ancestors, and maybe to noble families. Building your own pedigree can be a fun hobby or just entertain at your leisure.
It is necessary
- - a certain amount of money;
- - passport.
Instructions
Step 1
The first and main point in writing the history of your surname is to collect all possible preserved information about distant and close relatives, some events in their lives, biographical facts, key dates, data on the place of residence and work. In search of this information, it is necessary to contact living witnesses, friends, relatives, acquaintances. After all, it is possible that the information that you want to receive has already been collected and organized by someone.
Step 2
After interviewing all witnesses who may know anything about the history of your name, you must turn to the collection of material evidence. Any personal belongings, old photographs, letters, any other documents can become a guiding thread leading you to a distant forgotten ancestor.
Step 3
For information from years gone by, you can try to contact the state archives. It is in the archives that all the old documents related to civil registration, seniority, places of residence and much more are preserved. Many Russian archives contain registers of pre-revolutionary parish churches, according to which the population was kept in the old days. A great help can be provided by the so-called. "Revision tales" are an analogue of modern population censuses that were regularly conducted in the Russian Empire.
Step 4
After collecting information, you need to start organizing and systematizing them. Now at the service of genealogy lovers, a lot of computer programs are offered that facilitate the construction of a large family tree, in which all information about your desired relatives will be taken into account and formalized.
Step 5
If, for some reason, you did not cope with one or several points of the search for your pedigree, you can always entrust the solution to the problem to professionals. Now in Russia there are many firms and agencies specializing in the search for archival information and the compilation of pedigrees. These organizations will also help you in obtaining the appropriate certificate of the representative of the family name or, if there is a reason, including you in the genealogy books of the nobility.
