Here’s another extension of what you can create for the Heritage unit: an icon of yourself that represents your family heritage and the journey that you’re taking to understand different cultures and languages around you.
I placed China at the top of my culture icon, as it represents a culture that I have great respect for, and it’s a place that I want to invest part of my future in. The rest of my icon graphic features my birth place, Papua New Guinea, my nationality, Australia, and then a number of countries that my descendants emerged from: England, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, Prussia, Wales, and Scotland.
This weekend I contacted relatives on both sides of my family so that I could collect data and evidence to construct my family tree, which is something we’ll all be doing soon in Humanities as part of the Heritage unit. I found quite a lot of information at a website that my Aunty Audrey (on my dad’s side) has been constructing: “They Came They Stayed“, which documents how members of our family immigrated to Australia from various parts of the UK. Members of my mother’s side of the family were also able to provide me with important evidence like obituaries, and photographs like our old family home in Belgium. Even just searching through all of these records was an incredible journey! I discovered that my family has roots in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, Germany and Prussia. In order to create a ‘visual map’ of all of the information I carefully followed the information, and I used ’shapes’ and ‘connectors’ in PowerPoint to create my final family tree. I hope you’re looking forward to this task. I was able to track some of my relatives all the way back to the 17th century! Download my example family tree here (PDF): Chambers Family Tree (right click and “save as”)
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