Functional Skills English Level 1 Family History SAMPLE PAPER A Assessment Task Sheet Functional Skills English Assessment Reading Level 1 Learner name NOCN USE ONLY Question Mark 1 2 Learner Registration Number 3 4 Learner signature 5 6 Centre 7 8 Assessment date Total Instructions to candidates Check that you have the correct paper. Please complete the information above. You do not need to use complete sentences for the reading assessment. Use black or blue ink. Do not use a pencil. You may use a dictionary. There are 8 questions in this assessment. You must answer all the questions. Total marks available: 26 You should try to answer ALL the questions You have one hour to finish the assessment. SAMPLE PAPER A Page 1 of 8 Functional Skills English Level 1 Family History SAMPLE PAPER A Assessment Task Sheet You have decided to research into your family tree but are not sure where to start. You find some information on the internet about how to start research. Every ten years there is a census. You look for more information about what a census is and what it can tell you and for ideas of how a census can help your search. You find a newspaper article which informs you that the 1911 census is now available on the internet. Finally you look for more information on the internet about how to use the census information. Read through the documents and answer the questions about them. SAMPLE PAPER A Page 2 of 8 Functional Skills English Level 1 Family History SAMPLE PAPER A Assessment Task Sheet Document 1 First steps in researching your family history Here is a helpful guide to starting your family research. You can also get the ‘Getting Started’ pack from the General Register Office. This is a full introduction to family history research and how to use birth, marriage and death certificates to build your family tree. Use government records for your family research  Starting with yourself, write down all the dates and events you know about in your family and work back carefully. Collect any certificates you can find, which will give you important information to help you continue your research e.g. mother’s surname before she married.  Download the Family Tree Chart from the General Register Office to help record your family information Talk to relatives  Ask members of your family for their memories and make notes of what each person says. Ask those relatives who can remember most to go over their memories more than once. Nobody can remember everything of use in one sitting.  Look in your attic and ask your elderly relatives if you can look in theirs.  Ask elderly relatives to identify people in old family photographs – ask them to write names on the back.  Show your findings to elderly relatives, as they may jog a series of fresh memories. Get help and advice  You may want to join a local family history group where you can share your experiences and get help with any problems you come across.  You could enrol in a family history course. Many adult education centres run these courses and they are not expensive and very helpful. Adapted from www.direct.gov.uk SAMPLE PAPER A Page 3 of 8 Functional Skills English Level 1 Family History SAMPLE PAPER A Assessment Task Sheet Document Two You find a newspaper article about the 1911 Census. You think it may give you more ideas about how to start researching. Kate Winslet and Kate Middleton's family histories revealed in online 1911 census Details of the family history of Kate Winslet and Kate Middleton can be found in the latest census to be made available on the internet. A census shows the name, age, place of birth, marital status and occupation of every person in every home in England. The census was completed by 36 million householders on Sunday, 2 April 1911. Programmes such as the BBC's ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ mean that many people have become interested in family history. The website now has the whole of the UK census including images of the handwritten census forms themselves. People can also search for the history of the homes they live in. Among the records is the great-grandfather of Kate Middleton, Richard Noel Middleton, who was a solicitor. Titanic actress Kate Winslet's great-greatgrandfather John had run a public house but was retired by 1911. Her great grandfather Charles Winslet was still running a public house at the same address in 1911. the new passion for family history was exciting. "Finishing this project has been one of the most exciting events for us this year, and to know that so many people have been able to see part of their personal history online shows how valuable it can be to make these records available on the web," he said The census records also include full details of British Army personnel serving overseas and details of their families. Oliver Morley, from The National Archives, which has worked on the project, said Conducting a Census in a Caravan Park (Adapted fromThe Telegraph Image from Wikipedia) . SAMPLE PAPER A Page 4 of 8 Functional Skills English Level 1 Family History SAMPLE PAPER A Assessment Task Sheet Please answer the following questions about Documents One and Two. You do not need to use full sentences. Question 1 Using the information from Document One, give two advantages of asking elderly relatives for help in researching family history. 1. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 2 marks Question 2 Give two ways in which the writer of Document One makes the text easy to read. 1. ______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 2 marks Question 3 According to Document Two, how many people completed the Census in 1911? __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 1 mark SAMPLE PAPER A Page 5 of 8 Functional Skills English Level 1 Family History SAMPLE PAPER A Assessment Task Sheet Question 4 Name one item you can get from the General Register Office and state how it may help you research your family history. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 2 marks Question 5 Document One suggests that you could ask elderly relatives for help when you start to research your family history. List three other ways of starting to research into family history and give a reason for choosing this approach. Ways to start researching Why would you choose this approach? 6 marks Question 6 List three reasons why you might make use of the 1911 census as part of your research. 1. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 2. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 3. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 3 marks SAMPLE PAPER A Page 6 of 8 Functional Skills English Level 1 Family History SAMPLE PAPER A Assessment Task Sheet Document Three – you look for more information on the internet about census records. This is a brief guide to researching census records. Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online, so you can search for the records from home. The Scottish 1911 census will not be made available to the public until 2011. Many Irish records have been lost or destroyed - the 1901 census is the earliest and most complete census of Ireland that survives. What do I need to know before I start? Try to find out:  the name of the person you are looking for  their approximate date of birth  where the person was born or lived What records can I see online?  Census records for England and Wales (1841-1911) Did you know? A census of the population of England and Wales has been taken every ten years since 1801 except in 1941. The 1841 census was the first to list the names of every person. Earlier censuses between 1801 and 1831 only recorded the number of people in each area. From January 2009, most of the information from the 1911 census has been put onto the internet, but the most sensitive data will not be available until 2012. From 1851 onwards, every person's relationship to the head of the household was recorded. Due to rounding down and human error, some details, such as age, may vary between censuses. Censuses started in Ireland in 1821 and in Scotland in 1841. SAMPLE PAPER A Page 7 of 8 Functional Skills English Level 1 Family History SAMPLE PAPER A Assessment Task Sheet Question 7 You use the information in Document Three to identify what information can be found from the census details from different times in the past. Make a note of any additional information you may find useful for these dates. Census Date 1801 - 1831 What information is available? Notes 1841 1851 onwards 6 marks Question 8 Name two groups of people who may be interested in reading Document Two and give reasons why you think this. 4 marks Who may be interested? Why do you think this? END OF ASSESSMENT SAMPLE PAPER A Page 8 of 8