Organize Your Family History!

For Granville History see: Granville History Page

Grogan's Grove School Picnic

Organizing Your Family's History For Preservation and Sharing

Your Family History Links Back to 1. Research Next to 3. Preserve Centennial Home Granville Home	Include as much historical information that is known, with your pictures and stories to make your submitted history as complete as possible. Don't forget to include any oral history, traditions or stories too. Photographs of Granville People, Places and Events
			Never write on the back of pictures! Don’t use paper clips or fasteners on photographs. The emulsion (picture side) of old photographs is easy to damage. Ink on the back can soak through, smear, or mar other pictures. Do attach a Post-It™ sticker identifying the people, places and dates as best known. Copies of copies never look good, so submit original pictures for reproduction whenever possible.
	Milton & Betty Trana on 50th Anniversary.

	Your Family's Original Home and Their Move to Granville
	Where did your family or organization originate? What city, state or country did they come from? What languages, cultures or traditions did they bring with them? Was it a long time ago or fairly recent? How did they arrive in Granville, by train, wagon, bus or some other mode of transportation? Was the trip difficult or an adventure? Were they young single people, or an older established family group? Did they settle individually or all at once? How long did it take for them to settle in the Granville area?
				What was your familiy's Port of Arrival?

	Why Did Your Family Settle in Granville, North Dakota?
			Why did your ancestors move to Granville? Where they looking for freedom, land or to be with their family? Were they farmers, ranchers, business people, or trades people. What did they do in the city or countryside of Granville? Was there something special for them here?
	Granville Main Street 1915

			Your Family's Life Events in Granville Society
	What churches, schools and organizations did your family attend or participate in? What was the center of their social life? Who did they marry and who were their offspring? What was important to them? Why were these things significant?
				Newspaper clipping of Audrey and Gay Hanson Anniversary

	Your Granville Family's Early Stories
			What are some of the family stories (sad & happy) that get retold and passed on from generation to generation? Family oral history of stories, traditions and anecdotes can be recorded and shared as part of the history of Granville. These can bring to life the branches of your family tree.
		Frank Jurgens and Joe Woods of Granville, N. Dak. take a 1910 Hotsprings, Ark. donkey ride.