Using Obituaries to Create a Family Timeline

obituaries provide dates and events to a certain family member, in the waveform on a timeline. You could create a time line for every person, starting with the date of birth, or you could combine information from several obituaries on the same family in a family timeline.

you've seen time lines, which are known for individuals and institutions about important historical events. Usually the year and the date and a brief description of the event are included.

a family timeline

A family timeline is a valuable way to jointly important historical events in your family history. The accounting of the important dates and notes about the importance of these data provide perspective, we can guess what it must, like life in that period. A family timeline allows you to share a piece of living history, where you to see what is happening in this family as the events overlap.

Search for Clues in obituaries

If you just read old obituaries and see important dates, it is always a good idea to copy the important points and make notes on each point. Here you will find helpful obituary research tools that give you all the information you need out of your old obituaries obituaries to help. Once you have identified the important dates, it is time to act out your time online. You decide which format is best for you.

timeline formats

Horizontal deadlines are often on websites and displays as in museums and art galleries. They are generally over the years on the track and then the case above or below the approximate date of the event.

For our purposes is a vertical timeline is better suited. A vertical timeline, the year in chronological order on the left side, the exact date of the event on the right side of the year and then a description for the event immediately on the right side.

horizontally or vertically, a timeline is very difficult to update with pen and paper. When a new event is discovered, you have to make your timeline and insert a new page with new information or start all over again. If you are using a word processor program on your computer to create your timeline, it is easy to events and year. Simply insert the year, date and description of the event and you're done.

plotting to your family events on a timeline

Begin with an obituary. Write down all the events that the person obituary before it on another obituary. Start with the year, then the date (if you have it), then a brief description of the event. See the example below:

• Timeline for Johnson /Elliot family 1841 - 1900



• 1841, 2nd August, George Johnson, born



• 1845, 9 February, Bessy Elliot was born.



• 1865, 18 July, Bessy married George Elliot Johnson



• 1866, 12 October, Bessy gave birth to Elizabeth Joan Johnson



• 1868, 11 June, Bessy gave birth to George Frederick Johnson



• 1871, Summer, Bessy and George went west and settled on the homestead



• 1884, 9 May, Joan Johnson married Elizabeth Jackson Lee Brown



• 1885, 24 June, Elizabeth gave birth to John Silas



• 1888, 15 October, Elizabeth gave birth to Selma May



• 1889, 6 June, George Frederick Johnson married Wilma Thelma Robinson



• 1890, 3rd September, Wilma gave birth to Ray Lewis <-li>
  
  
• 1892, 17 January, Wilma gave birth to Elizabeth Alice



• 1894, 23 April, George Johnson died



• 1,900, 8 September, Bessy Elliot Johnson died

This is just one example of how the plot from a family timeline. You can use any case or detail you wish. Dates for recruitment into the military, joining clubs or attending school are all important in your family history and your family timeline. Keep your timeline to date by using the new events, as you discover.

 

Melanie Walters recommends http://www.ObituariesHelp.org for free genealogy resources, guides to building a family tree, sample letters of sympathy and condolence, written examples of eulogies as well as help with all aspects of funeral planning.

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