Family History Activities

Play Bingo, with family history flair.

Search and find brave and courageous ancestors in your family tree.

Help kids learn where they are from with this fun location game.

Students will look around the house for objects that are family history related and record the history of each item. From American Ancestors.

Children take turns asking a senior couple interview questions.

Step-by-step instructions on how to get started doing family history interviews. From American Ancestors.

Be a family history detective: examine old photos at home. Ask a family member to find ones you haven’t seen—check shoeboxes or old albums.
From American Ancestors.

Create an individual journal to help children record their life insights, questions, events, and memories.

What is a veteran? What are the days we celebrate veterans and why. Are there any veterans in your family trees?

Help kids learn where they are from with this fun location game.

Search and find brave and courageous ancestors in your family tree.

Children take turns asking a senior couple interview questions.

Play bingo with a family history twist.

Look around the house for objects that are family history related and record the history of each item. From American Ancestors.

Step-by-step instructions on how to get started doing family history interviews. From American Ancestors.

Help children learn about different types of records and then search for their own.

Find the countries your ancestors came from.

A three-step game—Discover, Gather, Connect—that helps kids find resources and link families together.

A simple card game where children answer questions about themselves and learn how questions create stories.

Be a family history detective: examine old photos at home. Ask a family member to find ones you haven’t seen—check shoeboxes or old albums.From American Ancestors.

A fun game that helps kids learn more about the decades that their great-grandparents, grandparents and parents all grew up during.

Help children write their own family history story about themselves.

Learn Family History Facts by playing Jeopardy.

Have the children think of family history words for each letter of the alphabet.

Have family history story time, led by the kids.

Decorate a room to look like a general store as much as possible. Tell the children they are going back in time to the 1800s.

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Teach children what’s it like to be a family history consultant. One must think like a detective.

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Create an individual journal to help children record their life insights, questions, events, and memories.

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What is a veteran? What are the days we celebrate veterans and why. Are there any veterans in your family trees?

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Learn Family History Facts by playing Jeopardy.

Give the children several "possible" missions that help them learn how to use FamilySearch. Adapted from "Let's get together: Mission Impossible Activity."

Search and find brave and courageous ancestors in your family tree.