Thursday, October 22, 2009

Genogram

I am working on an Oral History project for one of my college classes, constructing the history of the lives and relationship of my grandparents, David and Carolyn (Broadus) Snow, through their own words and various outside research.

As part of this class assignment, the professor requested that we each turn in a Genogram. It is basically a family tree, but it includes other information as well, in this case the professions, hobbies, and educational background of the members of the family.

This leaves me with an interesting task, as I have no way of knowing such information about family members whom I have never met. If anyone would like to help me with this part of my project, you could either post it here or we could correspond via email. Posting it here seems somewhat appropriate, though, as part of this blog has been dedicated to explorations of our mutual ancestries.

These genograms can be very interesting. For example, I already know that my Mo Mo (my father's father's mother) was a poet, and I am a poet. I already know that my mother, Amy Ruth Snow, is an artist, musician, singer/songwriter, and I am all of those things. It is really fun to see what traits I have in common with people, especially though what traits I have in common with people whom I have never had the pleasure of meeting.

My genogram is only supposed to go up a short number of generations, so I have D.T. Broadus as oldest generation and my daughter as the most recent generation.

Thank you all in advance for your input. :)

1 Comments:

Blogger David Broadus said...

Ashley

That is a most interesting project. I am sure you know that there is a lot of information posted on this blog if you wanted to wade through all of the back posts.

Also, two rich sources from the Broadus/Durling line are my brother Ed, the genealogist, and our cousin Betty. Ed will automatically get your post via email. Betty normally does, but her email is down. You might want to back up your request by sending her a message via FB and ask her to check the blog for your post. If you do that, be sure and include the link to your post, as she may not have it handy.

Hope it goes well. Sounds like fun.

Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:03:00 PM  

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