Functional Skills English Level 1 Family History SAMPLE PAPER A

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
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2
Learner Registration Number
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4
Learner signature
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6
Centre
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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