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Those of you who have been busy gathering info for your family tree will in all likelihood have accumulated by now a outstanding assortment of documents, memorabilia and artefacts that throw light upon and add real interest to your emergent family tree research.

But when it comes to putting all this material into some kind of significant order, there are some basic considerations to take note of. On the one hand you may be content to compile an informal family scrapbook and affiliated family tree charts and diagrams, without applying the full science of genealogy.

On the other hand you may wish to be much more formal and indepth and plan to formulate a full-blown family chronicle. This will comprise the charts and diagrams of the sections of your tree, but will likewise include well-researched mini biographies of key persons on your tree, together with notes of where they lived, and the social conditions of their time. This procedure will provide a much more rounded formally presenting something and stand up to the scrutiny of detail.

To achieve this higher ordinary and with it also a dandier level of gratification it will be necessary to make a clear distinction amongst two types of source. There are Primary roots and there are Secondary sources. The most primary Primary origins are certificates of Birth, Marriage and Death. Probably the more lately issued certificates will already be in your possession, while the earlier ones may have to be searched and paid for. Then the proof from the Census returns will often times prove priceless too.

Secondary origins are oftentimes a worthful source of information, but in the very nature of things they are less reliable. My Australian uncle was a surgeon captured by the Japanese in China. We have a few of his introductory letters, which are essential sources, but most of the selective information when it comes to him comes from memories relayed by his daughters in their more recent biographical statements; they were rather young at the time. Their diaries, even though close to the events surrounding his capture, internment and eventual release are still secondary sources.

More not long back we have witnessed the calamitous affect of the tsunami on the people living on the North East coast of Japan. Anyone who experienced the trauma or witnessed the devastation was a primary source. Even those who witnessed the event on TV, and may express what they felt at the time are considered to be essential sources.

Secondary roots would be accounts written up after the event, TV documentaries, and any articles or books issued later. All these accounts would offer valuable information, often graphically and compellingly presented, but they would still be secondary origins none the less. Historians oftentimes have to begin with secondary sources, and then dig around for the necessary roots behind them. Happy searching!

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