16 Things to Record about Yourself

Started by Marsha Gail Veazey on Tuesday, May 31, 2016

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Marsha Gail Veazey C

5/31/2016 at 10:45 PM

Found a great article on the kinds of things to record for posterity in your profile:

http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/2016/05/31/16ThingsToWri...

1. Your full name and when and where you were born
2, Your siblings' names, and when and where they were born
3. Your parents' names, when and where they were born, what they were like, the kind of work they did, special memories about them
4. The same for your grandparents and great-grandparents, if you knew them
5. How your parents met
6. Your childhood: the games and books you liked; your hobbies, sports and activities; where you went to school; favorite and least favorite subjects in school; what you wanted to be when you grew up; your chores around the house; trouble you got into
7. Your high school years: school subjects you excelled at and struggled with, sports and activities, jobs, friends and dates, learning to drive, how you got along with your parents
8. Your college years, job training, and/or transition into working life
9. Experience serving in the military
10. Adult relationships and/or how you met your spouse
11. Where you settled as a young adult, your friends and activities, religious life, travel, work
12. Being a parent: when and where your children were born, their names and how you chose them, what you loved and didn't love about having children
13. Life lessons you've learned and advice you'd like to share
14. Family stories passed down to you, that you in turn want to pass down to others
15. Medical struggles that might also impact others in your family, if you feel comfortable sharing them
16. Of course, your genealogy discoveries

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6/1/2016 at 8:21 PM

Sorry -disagree.
#1 belongs on your profile.
#2 maybe okay to put on your profile - definitely belongs for each sibling on that sibling's profile
#3 maybe okay to put names, when and where born of your parents on your profile -- definitely all that plus what they were like and etc. belongs for each parent on the parent's profile
#4 same idea as #3 - most of that info only belongs on the profile for the specific grandparent or great-grandparent
#5 Belongs more properly in your Parents' Marriage Event

Volodya Mozhenkov

6/3/2016 at 2:50 AM

Regarding "this belongs elsewhere" i think that counts in the spirit of the list, you don't need to record everything on the same profile, but you need to record it somewhere.

Perhaps this can be used when you invite people to your tree, and they don't know what to do, you send them a list like this and say to put that in, and maybe they'll get interested and add more, but even if not, they'll have added quite a few things already.

Volodya Mozhenkov

6/3/2016 at 3:04 AM

Here's what i'd advise to record:

1. Your name, other names that people called you, pseudonyms
2. Your parents, grandparents, sisters and brothers, cousins, partners (and ex-partners), children
3. If you know who your great-grandparents were or some far cousins with which you are in contact, input them as well
4. Your education history, including what classes you took and teacher names if you remember
5. Medical history that is relevant to your family, or that have impacted your life
6. Your biological characteristics: eye colour, hair colour, height, blood type, rhesus factor
7. How you met your spouse (spouses, partners, ex-es), and how your parents have met
8. Where have you lived and when have you moved.

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