This article talks about the importance of teaching family history in an educational lesson for students in grades 8-11 of general education schools in Kazakhstan. Since many studies show that people of the 21st century receive information through visual perception, eighty percent of them are visual information, so the results of the research work were to determine the possibilities and prospects for teaching family history to students based on the direction of visual anthropology, i.e. based on visual data, including photo albums, photos and videos that are stored in the personal family archives of students. The article presents the results of a survey conducted among students in grades 8-11 of the school-gymnasium No. 159 named after. Y.Altynsarin in Almaty and gymnasium No. 208 in Almaty. A total of  four hundred thirty students took part in the survey. As a result of the survey, we realized that students show a high interest in family history, and also want to share their memories stored in a personal family fund, the analysis of the survey showed that family history is interesting and important for students.

The family, as the most important social microstructure, is an integral part of the entire social system and is inextricably linked with all its other components, directly or indirectly reflecting the changes taking place in society.

Modern family psychologists and sociologists note the shift of the center in the structure of the family from kinship, from the ties of children and parents to marital relations, and family ties, despite their great importance, fade into the background. For example, Eidemiller and V.V. Yustytsky believe that the patriarchal family and traditions are still strong in modern society, but the boundaries between family members are blurred and poorly structured, which greatly affects the health of family members and family unity.

It is clear that family history requires a great deal of research on the part of historians and educators, as it is the place where the fine line of the national idea of society matures. There is no doubt that the transformations taking place in the modern institution of the family will have a direct impact on the children who are brought up there, that is, in the family. Among children, especially adolescents, the impact is enormous. That is why, in the course of the research work, we included students in grades 8-11 in the survey.