10 unusual and exciting genealogical activities
Make your genealogy, share it, visit museums or have ancestral cooking, we take care with these genealogical activities during confinement!
1 - Take stock of your genealogy
Now is the time to do what you always repel, take stock of your genealogy!
We take a step back and we see the basics again, tout by keeping our 5 Gold rules for genealogy.
- Clean your duplicate base
- Store your archive documents
- Make lists of people or acts to find
- set up a new working method
- Look for new tools
- Think about new goals ...
2 - Take paleography lessons
It is the obsession of many genealogists: to find yourself before an act at first glance illegible ... One solution, to handle the science of ancient handwritten scriptures, paleography! But to become an ace training is required.
Find below some online resources to exercise you:
📗 Small initiation guide to paleography by the ADs of Tarn
📗 Bibliography on paleography by the AD of Haute-Saône
📗 Bibliography on old French by the AD of Haute-Saône
🎦 Ductus the formation of modern alphabet by Jean Venard
Online exercises and courses:
- AD des Alpes-Maritimes (all levels - with correction)
- R. de Tarragon site (Each word is decrypted letter after letter)
- Paleo-En-Ligne (free initiation cycle, paid lessons)
3 - Identify old (or recent) photos
You have been pushing it back for months but it's time to put names, places and dates on the back of all these well -kept photos in your albums or pretty boxes. A good way to immerse yourself in your many memories while doing a "good genealogist deed", guaranteed nostalgia.
Leave traces for your descendants by annotating them with an indelible and even better pencil, you can scan and classify them.
And for good students who would be up to date in the annotation of family photos, participate in the identification of old photos or participate in Geolocation of old documents on Gallica.
- AD North
- Photographic mutual aid on history-genealogie.com
4 - Participate in the collaborative indexing of the archives
Many departmental archive centers offer a collaborative indexing service to enable the enrichment of scanned files and then facilitate your research online. Find some quick links to the services concerned, but do not hesitate to check on the AD sites that you consult regularly!
5 - Transmit the genealogy virus to children
Some fun, fun and family resources: Crear his 3D family tree with the means at hand or make a Game of 7 families, playing, it works every time!
Also find Seven tracks to interest young people in genealogy by Marine Soulas of the blog in the branches.
For older children, the ADs of Ille-et-Vilaine offer a Docgame on the First World War And Gallica opens up to children with Gallicadabra!.
6 - Write the biography of an ancestor or the history of the family
Have you always dreamed of writing the story of one of your ancestors with an exceptional or your family? Now is the time to get started, but not without a few resources:
- Write the story of his ancestors By Sacred Ancestors
- 26 questions to write the life of an ancestor by our roots
- A simple way to write about your life or your family by Hélène Soulas
- Write the story of his family by antequam
- 100 words for a life by the ancestors gazette
Or maybe you prefer Writing yours, biography ?
7 - Visit museums from its sofa
The platform of the American giant Google, Arts and Culture invites you to immerse yourself in The biggest museums in the world. THE Louvre, THE 14 museums in the city of Paris (with free images of right to download), the National Gallery London offer virtual visits to their various rooms.
8 - Read, read and read
Reading would be the remedy against loneliness and a way to experience your confinement well. Gallica provides you with thousands of books in PEP format downloadable for free, just like Internet Archive.
9 - Cook ancestral recipes
For gourmets, we go into the kitchen with these different ancestral recipes ... Carp to beer, Murat Cornet, Demarsy ... There is something for everyone, for young, and for adults!
- Yesterday's recipes by picturesque France
- Ancestral cuisine of sky! My ancestors
10 - Listen to podcasts on genealogy, history and culture
The podcasts have made their place in the daily life of many of us, some even speak of genealogy. Discover 12 podcasts on genealogy and history.
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