How many times have you been puzzled when your mom told you about her aunt’s nephew’s uncle or grandparent’s cousins and their relationship with you or your grandfather’s uncle’s mother or their cousin and in the end their relationship with you…. Oh my! It’s really mind-boggling even to think!

Many of us do not realise the importance of having a large family with a number of cousins, uncles and aunties, grandparents, etc., it is later in life, when we get older that we realise how we have been blessed with a bundle of uncles, cousins, aunties, etc. However, there are many enthusiasts who are eager to know about their ancestors’ past.

Family Tree Kids is a website for kids who are really inquisitive about their great-grand relationships, etc. This kids-focussed genealogy website is from Family Tree Magazine which is America’s leading publication for discovering and celebrating family history.

You don’t have to register, and can start off right from the homepage. The menu is pretty simple; you can download the family tree form from the first tab, Family Tree Form, which opens as a PDF file in Adobe Reader. You will see a tree with many boxes labelled as uncle, aunt, grandfather, great grand father, etc. — all you need is to fill them out — don’t worry if you don’t remember some names, you can save the file on your computer and fill out later with the help of your mom, granny or anyone else.

In Family Tree Fun, there are a few games like genealogy word scramble, word search (family history record), make picture magnets, etc.

Moreover, Family Detective tells you many interesting ways with which you can learn about your family history such as in scavenger’s hunt, you can explore your genealogical treasure through your grandma’s attic; interview a relative like older sibling of your father or uncle as they can best tell you their memories about your family before you were born, etc.

Junior Toolkit is about helping you search through the historical record of your family through family heritage reference books by many different authors. You can take ideas about how to keep the family record intact. There are also forms and charts such as five generation ancestor chart, family group sheet, step-family tree, adoptive family tree and many more which can be downloaded and printed to be filled out later.

All in all, this is an interesting and easy-to-understand website that makes you take the next steps in quest for yours and your relatives’ past.

To keep record of your family tree visit http://kids.familytreemagazine.com — Aamir Raz Soomro