The dynamics of the modern world together with technological progress entering all spheres of human life, determine the perception of reality, especially among schoolchildren and youth. This results, among others, in the need to expand the history teaching offer with tools adapted to the capabilities and expectations of the young audience. This can be enhanced by employing the attractive methods of particular auxiliary sciences of history, which allows for a diverse and interesting reception of historical information. In this context, the authors of this article focus on broadly understood genealogical research – and in particular on the methods, course and forms of presenting the results, based on digital technologies. Showing students and history teachers the perspectives brought about by the sources can arouse curiosity and inspire their own in-depth research. The richness of the source material allows not only for determining the relationship between kinship and affinity, but also to learn about history on a microscale and to reconstruct the history of one’s own small homeland. The workshop “Family in Historical Sources” presented in this article has been prepared to achieve these goals and convince the participants of their active role in history.