Family Tree Questionnaire
by Lois Kay Muran

The first rule of genealogical research is to start by interviewing or corresponding with your relatives. Muran has designed a perfect tool with just that in mind: Family Tree Questionnaire.

As the title suggests, each page in Muran's book consists of fill-in-the-blank entries for recording genealogical information on each member of your family, such as name, address, date and place of birth, weight and height at birth and at present, medical information, nicknames, information on spouse and children, previous marriages, special memories, schooling, careers, hobbies, pets, travels, special moments, person philosophy, religion and much more.

The questionnaire is divided into separate sections for the subject, spouse, children, parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, grandparents, grandchildren, members of your extended family, and various kinds of personal information.

At the back of the questionnaire is a special section for compiling miscellaneous information and for inserting and describing family photos.

While Family Tree Questionnaire is a perfect log for information gathering--whether you 're gathering the information in person, over the phone or via correspondence--it can double as someone's "rough and ready" genealogy or oral history album. This is one versatile and inexpensive tool, which all genealogy researchers should consider.

108 pp., paperback (1995), reprinted 1997, ISBN 0-8063-4554-3