Are all family trees created equal? Obviously not. Would you be embarrassed of your family tree if you had to complete a family tree project? In today’s story, a parent helps her child with a family ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband’s third cousin, whom we’ve never met and with whom we have no personal relationship, has been compiling a family tree. Apparently she heard through another relative that ...

Class assignments involving students’ background—like charting family trees or drawing on their cultural traditions—have been a standby for generations. But tasks that call for extensive personal ...