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Did you know that children (ages 8 and older) can have their own FamilySearch account with a parent’s permission?
Owen is 8-years old. This afternoon he said, “Mom, can I do some family history on the computer?” Ummmm, I said yes. Eight is a fantastic, inquisitive, impressionable age … When your 8-year old asks to do family history, you drop everything and show him how great his idea was. We went straight to FamilySearch.
Here are some fun Family Tree activities for the young ones (and certainly, a parent will want to guide the experience ... see the note at the end of this page):
Note: This whole idea may give some adults heartburn … You mean kids can get into the Family Tree and press buttons??!! Let me add my two cents to FamilySearch’s open/collaborative tree vision: we can’t learn to use a tool that we’re not allowed to touch. Sometimes I let my kids have full access to the kitchen to make cookies. They may spill ingredients and leave a mess. But they learn to make cookies. The mess can be cleaned up (and I make sure they help with that clean-up!) Do I leave the house while they’re at it? No. I supervise. I help. I TEACH. They couldn’t learn to make cookies without access to the kitchen. They can’t learn to be family historians without access to online genealogy tools. Thank you, FamilySearch, for recognizing this. We’re big fans.