Tracing Your Family History with the Whole Family by Robin C. McConnell

Author:Robin C. McConnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry
Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
Published: 2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Norma Bessie Kensington, daughter of Norman Charles Kensington and Ethel.

Will she consider male fashions, or will her focus stay on female fashions? Would she interview a fashion reporter and seek advice on her research? Will she include sport fashions, such as swimwear, athletes’ gear or tennis players’ fashions? Can anyone help her learn from theses or college research and writings on fashion change? Have cheerleaders changed through the decades? Which ex-sport participant women in her mother’s and grandmother’s generations might engage in interviews? Which dressmakers and couturiers would she speak with? Who can inform her on everyday wear, work clothes, formal clothing and social dress through the past 200 years? Sophia could then seek any existing family records such as historical newspaper reports which often comment upon what the bride and attendants were wearing at weddings or women wore on certain social occasions. What influenced fashion in her family over time? Interviews with fashion history researchers could be followed up.

Sophia’s search engines quickly locate ‘fashion history’ and ‘learning about fashion history’ sites which draw immediate interest. See the site Sophia would find at https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu for example. Then she sets her photographs out and considers Jayne Shrimpton’s information on interpreting fashion and photographs, especially Shrimpton’s Fashion and Family History, (Pen & Sword, 2020).

Sophia, being bilingual, might then wish to research her female French ancestors’ fashions or, possibly more prosaically, locate immigrant ship lists of clothes. This illustrates the diverse ways a youngster in the family can carry out research on a particular area of interest and further illustrates our guiding definition that family history is a history of the direct family in the past and in the present – recorded for the future.

Imagine a young girl or boy finding the family’s successive church linkages or arts expression or participation in a civic or cultural field through newspaper archives which mention an ancestor in a past local newspaper. Newspaper archives offer the chance to search newspapers of a particular place and time. This raises the idea of young ones responding to the creative aspect of being detectives who have cases to solve. It may be this detective self-concept that draws them into the family venture.

Some youngsters have an interest in family members of the armed forces. Others may have a particular interest in gardening or books of the day or special day customs or the sea. Build up a timeline with them e.g. books on sea voyages of pioneer days. Look at grandparents’ explanations of special days and build back from there. Jointly set goals and help the young ones understand initial sources of likely information they can log into. Genealogical and history magazines have excellent articles on researching in special fields of interest. Check them out and monitor their websites. Search the internet for certain historical periods and maintain the timelines you construct with your youngster.

Maya enjoyed playing the harp, composing and was in a major choir. Cleo has pleasure playing the piano and dancing. Ask them to describe the appeal of these and of their music or movement.

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