Start Your Family Tree Week: 26 December

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Boxing Day is a brilliant day to catch up with your extended family. Make the most of seeing your relatives, especially the older members, by asking them about themselves and other relatives they remember. Find out what life was like when they were growing up.

Together, fill in as much of your family tree chart (PDF) as possible.

Use our handy interview guide (PDF) to make sure you find out all you can.

If you're new to family history, take a look at these 20 simple steps to start your family tree (PDF), a free downloadable full-colour 50 page guide brought to you in association with Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine.

Today's quiz questions:

To get started, search our 1891 census to find a past! Specifically, George Past, but what was his mother's occupation?

Search for Christmas in our Military Nurses 1856-1994 collection – with which nation did she serve during WWI?