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Links To The Past Through Genealogy:
Curriculum Activities for the Classroom

by Midge Frazel


Genealogy 101 from HeritageQuest
http://www.heritagequest.com/gen101/index.html
Genealogy Terms
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehowardorjeff/i8.htm
How to Get Started with Your Family Tree
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/beginnerscorner/ht/family_tree.htm
RootsWeb Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson1.htm
Top Ten Mistakes to Avoid
http://genealogy.about.com/library/weekly/aa072100a.htm

Family Tree of Sherlock Holmes
http://www.pjfarmer.com/secret/contributors/holmes-family-tree.htm
Going Beyond the Traditional Family Tree
http://genealogy.about.com/library/weekly/aa072102b.htm
Relatives of Harry Potter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relatives_of_Harry_Potter
Teaching Children to Be Ancestor Detectives
http://genealogy.about.com/library/weekly/aa050901a.htm

Basic Steps in the Research Process
http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/
Family Tree Magazine Free Forms
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html

Genealogy.com.Wylie,John.How to Cite Sources
http://www.genealogy.com/19_wylie.html
RootsWeb ’s Creating Worthwhile Genealogies for Our Families and Descendants (Guide #12)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson12.htm

Day of the Week Born
http://fp.ayrshireroots.plus.com/Genealogy/Reference/Day%20Born%20z.htm
Eduplace ’s Graphic Organizers (in Acrobat Reader format)
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
Genetics,DNA and Family Health Links at Cyndi ’s List
http://www.cyndislist.com/dna.htm

Celebrate Grandparent ’s Day and Family History
http://www.homeschoollearning.com/units/unit_09-05-01.shtml
Five Projects for Family History Month
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/george/2552.asp
Johnny Appleseed Thematic Unit
http://www.midgefrazel.net/appleseed.html
Timelines:What ’s Your Life So Far?
http://www.bostonfamilyhistory.com/time_main.html

Alternative Chart:The Family Pyramid by Ira Wolfman (in Adobe Reader format)
http://www.workman.com/familytree/pdfs/FAM_PYRAMID.pdf
Ancestry.com ’s Free Charts (in Adobe Reader format)
http://ancestry.com/save/charts/ancchart.htm
Alternative Chart:The Family Fan by Ira Wolfman (in Adobe Reader format)
http://www.workman.com/familytree/pdfs/FAMILY_FAN.pdf
Family Tree Magazine ’s Free Forms (in text and Adobe Reader format)
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html
Family Tree Paper Craft
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/familytree/paper/
Semi-Circular Ancestral Family Tree Craft
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/familytree/semicircle/

Introduction to Genealogy:Lesson 1d:Recording Names
http://www.genealogy.about.com/library/lessons/blintro1d.htm
Introduction to Genealogy:Lesson 1e:Recording Dates
http://www.genealogy.about.com/library/lessons/blintro1e.htm
Introduction to Genealogy:Lesson 1f:Recording Places
http://www.genealogy.about.com/library/lessons/blintro1f.htm
List of United States:State Pages (to find county names)
http://usgenweb.org/states/index.shtml
List of World Countries (to find location names)
http://worldgenweb.org/countryindex.html

Family Tree Magazine ’s 101 Best Web Sites for 2004
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/101sites/2004/
Sources and Resources for Research by Category
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/categories.asp

Family Search
http://www.familysearch.org/
GenCircles
http://www.gencircles.com
US GenWeb
http://www.usgenweb.net/
World Connect at Roots Web
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com
World GenWeb
http://worldgenweb.org/

Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com
Genealogy.com
http://www.genealogy.com

Heroes and Veterans Web site for the Gallup Family
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gallupfam/veterans.htm

Day of the Week Born Web Tool
http://fp.ayrshireroots.plus.com/Genealogy/Reference/Day%20Born%20z.htm
Cyndi ’s List:Software and Computers for Genealogy
http://www.cyndislist.com/software.htm
How Digital Camera Work from How Stuff Works
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/digital-camera.htm
How Scanners Work from How Stuff Works
http://home.howstuffworks.com/scanner.htm
Kathy Schrock ’s Guide for Educators:Digital Gadgets
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/gadgets.html
Midge Frazel ’s Home Page:Genealogy Software List
http://www.midgefrazel.net/personalgenealogy.html#software
World Almanac for Kids:Historical Birthdays
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/birthdays.html

Boston Family History.com:Just for Kids What ’s in a Name?
http://www.bostonfamilyhistory.com/name_main.html
EDSITEment Lesson Plan:What ’s in a Name?How Did Surname Come To Be?
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=480
Library of Congress:The Historian ’s Sources
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/pshome.html
Library of Congress:What Are Primary Resources?
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/prim_sources.html
RootsWeb Guide to Tracing Birth Records
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson6.htm
We Are History:Family Stories
http://teacher.scholastic.com/grade/grades35/aug_unitplan.htm

Mary Queen of Scots
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/maryq/index.html
Audrey Hepburn
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/audrey-hepburn/index.html

Carrie Fisher
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/carrie-fisher/index.html
Halle Berry
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/halleb/index.html
Drew Barrymore
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/drewb/index.html

Celebrity Trees © Genealogy..com ’s ®
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/index.html
Cyndi ’s List:Female Ancestors
http://www.cyndislist.com/female.htm
Notable Women Ancestors
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/alpha.html
Women of Influence from Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/0/7/6/8/4/3/A0768438.html
Women ’s History Month by The History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/womenhist/program.html
Women Who Changed History by Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/

Ancestors of Lizzie Borden by Alice Beard
http://members.aol.com/alicebeard/borden.html
Fall River Historical Society,The Borden Collection
http://www.lizzieborden.org/bordencollection.htm
Rebecca Nurse,Accused Witch at Genealogy.com
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/rebeccan/index.html
Salem Witch Trials Museum,Salem,Massachusetts
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com
/

A Beginner ’s Guide to the U.S.Federal Census.The Census Taker or Sum Peepl Can ’t Spell
http://www.tngenweb.org/cntylinks/taker.htm
Facts for Features:The US Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features/index.html
Rich and Famous in the US Census,The
http://www.rootdig.com/famouscensus.html
Taking the Census:Everyone Counts
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/population4.html
Teaching with Documents Lesson Plan:Little House in the Census
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/laura_ingalls_wilder/laura_ingalls_wilder.html

A&E Classroom at Biography.com
http://www.aetv.com/class
Beyond the Pilgrim Story:Wills and Inventory of the Pilgrims
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/pilstory.htm
Biography.com
http://www.biography.com
Biography Maker
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm
Biography@Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/biography.html
Court TV:Famous Wills of Famous People
http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/newsmakers/wills/
Glossary of Unusual Words in Wills
http://www.btinternet.com/~tylcoat/gloss.htm
Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Franklin,The
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/family/lastwill.html
Timeline Maker
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines/
Wills of Famous People
http://www.willsforamerica.com/_Miscellaneous%20Pages/wills_of_famous_people.htm

Alternative Gravestone Reading Methods
http://www.savinggraves.org/education/bookshelf/alternative.htm
Cemetery Studies:Site Map
http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/cemetery/site.html
Cyndi ’s List Cemetery Web Pages
http://www.cyndislist.com/cemetery.htm
Family Tree Magazine ’s Cemetery Transcription Form
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/artifacts/cemetery.pdf
Find-A-Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/
Gravestone Symbolism
http://edutel.musenet.org:8042/gravenet/gravenet_symbols.html
How to Interpret Gravestone Motifs at Saving Graves
http://www.savinggraves.org/education/bookshelf/carvings.htm
How to Do Gravestone Rubbings and Using Chalk at Saving Graves
http://www.savinggraves.org/education/bookshelf/rubbings.htm
How to Do Gravestone Rubbings and Using Chalk at Saving Graves
http://www.savinggraves.org/education/bookshelf/chalk.html
Interment.net
http://www.interment.net
James A.Barber
http://www.midgefrazel.net/barber.html
Learning About Ourselves by Visiting The Past:A Study of Tombstones and Cemeteries By Jeanne Guthrie
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/History/HIS0202.html
Mount Auburn Cemetery ’s Web page
http://www.mountauburn.org/
Physical and Chemical Weathering at GraveNet
http://edutel.musenet.org:8042/gravenet/grave_weathering.html
Political Graveyard,The
http://politicalgraveyard.com/
Saving Graves Site Map (links to state resources)
http://www.savinggraves.org/about/sitemap.htm
Tombstone Meanings
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/tomb.html

Monument on the Mall WebQuest
http://schoolweb.missouri.edu/nixa.k12.mo.us/sullivan/GovernmentQuest/index.html
National Mall:Monuments and Memorials
http://www.nps.gov/nama/monuments/monument.htm
National World War II Memorial
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/
Veteran ’s Guide to Washington,DC,A
http://www.va.gov/oca/vetdc_USA.htm
Virtual Tour of the National Mall
http://dcpages.ari.net/Tourism/

42Explore Topic:Presidents of the United States
http://www.42explore2.com/presidt2.htm
By Popular Demand:Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html
First Ladies Gallery
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/
Genealogy of the US Presidents
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/presidents/presidents.html
Portraits of the Presidents from The National Gallery
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/travpres/index6.htm
Presidential Biographies (for younger students)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/presidents/
Presidents Coloring Pages (for younger students)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/presidentsday/color/
Presidential Libraries
http://www.ibiblio.org/lia/president/pres-home.html
Presidents of the United States,The
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
White House Historical Society,The
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/

Learning About George Washington (for students)
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/lesson/index.html
George Washington:A National Treasure
http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/
George Washington Papers at The Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
Mount Vernon
http://www.mountvernon.org/
National Park:Birthplace of George Washington
http://www.nps.gov/gewa/
Rediscovering George Washington from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/
Take the George Washington Quiz (Old Sturbridge Village)
http://www.osv.org/gw/wquiz2.htm

American Experience:Roosevelt Family Tree
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/sfeature/tree.html
America ’s Story:Meet Amazing Americans:Roosevelt
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/leaders/roosevelt
Biography of Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tr26.html
Genealogy of US Presidents:Roosevelt
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=presidents?presidents1560
Theodore Roosevelt:Icon of the American Century at the Smithsonian Institution
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/roosevelt/
TR Writes to his Son:American Treasures of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm014.html

About Betsy Ross
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blross.htm
American Flag
http://www.foundingfathers.info/American-flag/
Betsy Ross:Her Life
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flaglife.html
Betsy Ross Homepage
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/index.html
Betsy Ross House
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flaghome.html
Genealogy of Betsy Ross
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/betsyr/index.html
Legend of Betsy Ross
http://www.usflag.org/about.betsy.ross.html

Caring for the Men,The History of Civil War Medicine
http://www.civilwarhome.com/medicinehistory.htm
Clara Barton —Angel of the Battlefield
http://www.nps.gov/anti/clara.htm
Clara Barton Biography
http://www.civilwarhome.com/bartonbio.htm
Clara Barton ’s House:Home of the American Red Cross
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/27barton/27barton.htm
Clara Barton:Human Rights Advocate
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/27barton/27facts1.htm
Dorothea Dix Biography
http://www.civilwarhome.com/dixbio.htm

American West:Davey Crockett
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/davycroc.htm
Celebrity Tree:Davey Crockett
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/davyc/index.html
David Crockett (1786-1836)
http://www.lsjunction.com/people/crockett.htm
Davey Crocket Biography (Timeline)
http://www.infoporium.com/heritage/crockbio.shtml
Bear Hunting in Tennessee by David Crockett
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Swhumor/crockett.htm
Born on a Mountaintop?Davey Crockett,Tall Tales and History EDSITEMENT (grades 3-5)
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=288

Midnight Rider:Paul Revere Virtual Museum
http://www.cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/paulvm/_welcomepv.html
Paul Revere ’s Biography
http://www.paulreverehouse.org/bio/

Why Do We Remember Revere?(grades 6-8)
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=393

Booktalks Quick and Simple:Or Give Me Death:a novel of Patrick Henry ’s Family
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/rinaldi_or.htm
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!“(March 23,1775)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/henry.html
Meet Patrick Henry (Biography)
http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biohen.cfm
Patrick Henry Fact Sheet
http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biohen2.cfm
Red Hill:Patrick Henry National Memorial
http://www.redhill.org

Caleb Johnson ’s Mayflower History Passenger List
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/passengers.php
Plimoth Plantation
http://www.plimoth.org
Plymouth Ancestors
http://www.plymouthancestors.org
That ’s Plymouth Rock?
http://www.midgefrazel.net/rocksld1.html
WorkshopQuest:Giving Thanks
http://www.midgefrazel.net/wqthanks.html

42 Explore:Mark Twain
http://www.42explore.com/twain.htm
Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context (grades 9 to 12)
http://www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=447
Mark Twain at America ’s Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/all/twain
Mark Twain:A Film by Ken Burns
http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/index.html
Mark Twain @The Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/twain.html

America ’s Library:Edison Invents the Phonograph
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/scientists/edison/phonograph_1
Thomas Alva Edison by Midge Frazel
http://www.midgefrazel.net/edison.html
Thomas Edison ’s Inventions in the 1900 ’s and Today:From “New ” To You..(grades 3-5)
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=408

Dalbeattie (Scotland)Town History (ancestral home of Broadfoot:see Ellis Island)
http://www.dalbeattie.com/history/index.htm
Eyewitness to History:Passage to America,1750
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/passage.htm
Family Tree Magazine ’s Ethnic Toolkit
http://familytreemagazine.com/ethnic_intro.asp
Genealogy Spot:By Country
http://www.genealogyspot.com/country/
Kathy Schrock ’s Guide for Educators:World Geography and Cartography
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/world/geog.html
Tenement Museum
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/logcabin.html
My Family.com:Genealogy Online Training Courses
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/learning/online.htm

Where I Come From (EDSITEment Lesson Plan grades 3-5)
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=309
WorldGenWeb Project
http://worldgenweb.org/

American Family Immigration History Center
http://www.ellisisland.org
Ellis Island Resources
http://www.midgefrazel.net/ellisisland.html

42Explore The Topic:Oral History
http://www.42explore2.com/oralhst.htm
Guideline for Oral History Interviews from The History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/oralhistguidelines.pdf
Holo Mai Pele from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/holomaipele/classroom.html
Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide
http://www.folklife.si.edu/explore/Resources/InterviewGuide/InterviewGuide_home.html
Thirteen Steps to a Successful Interview
http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,1-10807,00.html
Using Oral History:Student Lesson from the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/ohguide.html
What Did You Do in the War,Grandma?
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
What is History?Timelines and Oral History an EDSITEment Lesson Plan
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=406

42Explore The Topic:Scrapbooking
http://42explore.com/scrapbk.htm
Memory Makers Magazine
http://www.memorymakersmagazine.com/
Scrapbooking.com Magazine
http://scrapbooking.com/
Scrapbooking at About.com
http://scrapbooking.about.com/

Avery Personal Creations ™ Iron On T Shirt Transfers ##3271 (6 sheets/about $10)
http://www.avery.com
North Elementary School,Somerset,MA
http://www.somerset.k12.ma.us/north/index.html

 


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