Activities

Make, play and discover

Creative ways to explore family history. Most things you make can be printed and saved to your research.

Ancestor trading cards

Design a collectible card for an ancestor — then print and swap!

Time-travel postcard

Write a postcard from the past, with real news from that year.

Interview kit

Questions to ask grandparents, and a place to save their answers.

Record decoder

Tap the parts of an old census and certificate to crack the code.

Search the archive

Look up real people in Holden's Archive with big, easy search.

Family passport

Collect a stamp for every place your family came from.

Then and now

What were toys, school and travel like in your ancestors' time?

Name explorer

Discover what a family name means and how its spelling changed.

Sticker family tree

Fill in your tree, decorate it with stickers and print a poster.

Story maker

Turn your discoveries into a picture-book story about an ancestor.

Classroom

Teachers: set lessons for a class and see everyone's stars.