Silver Challenges
Research Challenges - Continue to develop your research and organisational skills. Expand your awareness of your family heritage.
- Family Tree -
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Expand your research with a 4 or 5 generation chart. Look at online resources and/or go to your Local Studies Library to discover further information about your ancestors. - Create an Ancestral Time Capsule -
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Put together a “time capsule” of information about a chosen ancestor or historical figure. Send it to us at Manchester central Library - Palaeography fun -
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Looking at old handwriting can be really interesting. Have a look at The National Archives website. They have a special section dedicated to this topic. We also have a special challenge for you to complete. - Start a tradition -
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Create a recipe book with recipes handed down in your family. Contact family members and ask them to share their fave recipes with you in order to add to your collection. - Interview Challenge -
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Conduct an interview with an older member of your family or a member of the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society. Create a booklet of their life. - Blue Plaque Challenge -
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Select one of the many blue plaques in Manchester (or place where you live) that commemorate and celebrate a local person. Can you tell us something about them and their family history? If you had to design a blue plaque for a member of your family where would it be placed and what would it say? - Maps of our lives -
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Can you put together a map showing all the places that your ancestors lived? They may have been immigrants and travelled a long way from their original homeland however, they may have only travelled a fairly short distance. Find the relevant maps and mark out where these family members lived. - Build a timeline for one of your
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Choose one of your ancestors and build a timeline using the Timeline Generator or draw your own. Use birth, marriage & death information. Include some important events that occurred during their lifetime to achieve this. - Census Challenge -
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Let’s look at the Census! Find out what a census is and how to use it. Complete a set challenge.
Useful Resources for Silver Challenges:
https://familysearch.org/
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/home.jsp
http://www.myheritage.com/
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timeline/
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/nightingale.php