Family Tree & Genealogy Charts

Family history software keeps the data, but a lot of people still think better with a chart on the table and a pencil in hand. This kit is for filling in a family tree by hand, from the first four generations you already know to the lines you are still chasing through old records.

Each pedigree chart carries a chart number, and every person in the last column has a small line for the chart where that branch continues. Numbers follow the usual ahnentafel order, where a father's number is twice his child's and a mother's is twice plus one, so the fan chart and the pedigree charts use the same numbers and a note on one sheet can point to the other.

The rest of the pages are for the research itself. A family group sheet covers a couple and up to ten children, an individual record holds one ancestor's life events, and the research log, source tracker and records checklist show what you have already searched, which document backs which fact, and what is still missing.

• How-to page: numbering, date and place style, short forms
• Pedigree charts for 4, 5 and 6 generations (15, 31 and 63 ancestors)
• Fan chart, 5 generations, father's line on the left
• Family group sheet on two pages: parents, then up to 10 children
• Individual record with a life timeline
• Research log, source tracker and a checklist of 12 record types
• Research questions, surname list, correspondence log and notes
• Poster files: 5 and 6 generation pedigree charts and a 6 generation fan chart

Print at Actual size (100%). Chart pages are landscape and the worksheets portrait, so let the printer rotate pages automatically. The poster charts need 11 x 17 in or A3 paper; a copy shop can print them if your printer can't.