Research all of your family genealogical history details: dates and places of birth, marriages, deaths of family members, census results and other family history documents. Using this data will allow you to build individual family lines. The gathering of this source data can be very hard work and at times very time consuming but this research can be great fun for young and old in your family. You maybe have used the services of a professional genealogist to acquire the data for you.

Add all the possible information about your past generations. If you only know about the birth and death dates of a great great great great grandparent, then only add that. If you know a little about their lives, add some biography to your family tree. By adding a some biography, future generations can see how they lived and what they did in the past. Try putting that effort into as many family members as you can.