Genealogy Merit Badge Pamphlet

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Genealogy Merit Badge

Genealogy


These were the requirements from 2006 until the revisions made in 2023

To see the CURRENT requirements, Click here.

To see the changes made in 2023, Click here

For the previous requirements, Click here


  1. Explain to your counselor what the words genealogy, ancestor, and descendant mean.
  2. Do ONE of the following:
    1. Do a time line for yourself or for a relative. Then write a short biography based on that time line.
    2. Keep a journal for 6 weeks. You must write in it at least once a week.
  3. With your parent's help, choose a relative or a family acquaintance you can interview in person, by telephone, or by e-mail or letter. Record the information you collect so you do not forget it.
  4. Do the following:
    1. Name three types of genealogical resources and explain how these resources can help you chart your family tree.
    2. Obtain at least one genealogical document that supports an event that is or can be recorded on your pedigree chart or family group record. The document could be found at home or at a government office, religious organization, archive, or library.
    3. Tell how you would evaluate the genealogical information you found for requirement 4b.
  5. Contact ONE of the following individuals or institutions. Ask what genealogical services, records, or activities this individual or institution provides, and report the results:
    1. A genealogical or lineage society
    2. A professional genealogist (someone who gets paid for doing genealogical research)
    3. A surname organization, such as your family's organization
    4. A genealogical education facility or institution.
    5. A genealogical record repository of any type (courthouse, genealogical library, state or national archive, state library, etc.)
  6. Begin your family tree by listing yourself and include at least two additional generations. You may complete this requirement by using the chart provided in the Genealogy merit badge pamphlet or the genealogy software program of your choice.
  7. Complete a family group record form, listing yourself and your brothers and sisters as the children. On another family group record form, show one of your parents and his or her brothers and sisters as the children. This requirement may be completed using the chart provided or the genealogy software program of your choice.
  8. Do the following:
    1. Explain the effect computers and the Internet are having on the world
      of genealogy.
    2. Explain how photography (including microfilming) has influenced genealogy.
  9. Discuss what you have learned about your family and your family members through your genealogical research.
Pedigree Chart for use in working on these requirements: Word Format PDF Format
Family Group Record Sheet for use in working on these requirements: Word Format PDF Format
(The Pedigree Chart and Family Group Record Sheet are already included in the worksheets below.)

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Worksheets for use in working on these requirements: Format
Word Format PDF Format
 

Blanks in this worksheets table appear when we do not have a worksheet for the badge that includes these requirements.


Page updated on: December 23, 2022



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