[LM_NET] MID: Immigration/Tracing Family Tree

[Shayne Russell <srussell@INFORETRIEVER.NET>]

One of our 8th grade teachers requested help finding a website that would allow
his students to research their family tree as an activity to go with a novel
they
are reading.  I know nothing about genealogy, but I always thought that was a
pretty
complicated process (as well as a sensitive one with some families).  I was
wondering
if there might be some kind of simulation activity out there that would give the
kids the same type of experience, but by assigning them a fictional ancestor to
research.  Anyone done anything like this?  Suggestions?  TIA!



Shayne Russell
Library Media Specialist
Kenneth R. Olson Middle School
Tabernacle, NJ
s.russell@earthlink.net
http://inforetriever.net

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