What Is a Family Tree?

Brother/s

Sister/s

Mother

Father

Grandmother/sGrandfather/s

AuntsUncles

Cousins

Great-grandmother/s

Great-grandfather/s

What Is a Family Tree?A family tree is a way of displaying the relationship between a number of people within a family. A family tree helps us to tell our family story and share information about our past.

Allergra’s Family Tree

NannaPoppy

MumDad

Allergra Elliana

John’s Family TreeNannaGrandad Poppy Nanny

MotherFather

John Lucas Marco Lewis Hugh

A family tree helps us to sequence information about our family, from the oldest to the youngest. You can use photos, drawings or words to help share information about your family.

What Is a Family Tree?

How many children are in John’s family?

What does John call his grandparents?

Who are the oldest people in John’s family tree?

How many people are in John’s family tree?

Activity Answer the following questions out loud:

Family trees show how the people in a family are related.

Your turn!Task: research your family’s history so you know who the different members of your family are. Remember: you may already know lots

of them but others you may need to ask a grown-up to help you. Why not interview an adult and ask them OPEN questions which help you

find out about the different members of your family.

Example questions: What are/ were the names of your parents (so

these would be my grandparents)? What are/ were the name/s of your

grandparent’s (so these would be my great grandparents)?

Do you have any siblings (these would be my aunt/s and uncle/s)

Challenge: how far back can you go?I was able to trace back generations.