How to Fill Out an Ancestry Chart
Ancestry charts allow you to note your findings and keep track of people you find that belong in your family tree. The chart allows you to see your progress as you enter names of descendants. The ancestral chart is called the family tree because it resembles a tree starting with you as the top, branching down as you add more people to your family line.
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Instructions
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List yourself as the first person on the chart on the left side. Write your name on the line. Underneath, write your birthdate, where you were born, if you are married, the date you were married and where the marriage took place. Your spouse's name goes on the line under this information, where it says "Name of Spouse."
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Write your mother's name on the bottom line in the second column and your father's name on the top line. Add the birthdate, place the person was born, the date the person died, if deceased, and where. Under the father's name, write the date of the marriage and where it took place.
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Enter your father and mother's parents in the third column along with the specific dates and places for marriage, birth and death. Your father's dad goes on the top line and his mother on the second line. Your mother's father goes on the top line linked from her name and her mother is on the bottom line.
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Enter the name of your great-grandparents' names in the fourth column. Each great-grandparent has a line linked from their name for a mother and father. No birth, marriage or death dates are entered on the page for the last people on the chart. These people will have a separate chart to continue the family line. On each line under each person's name, where it says "Cont. on Chart," write in the page number of the chart that starts that person's history.
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Tips & Warnings
As you start a new chart for your great-grandfathers and grandmothers, each chart will be a new page and you will write the page number under their name on the previous sheet where the person was first listed.
Each of the people listed in the fourth columns on each page will have their own chart to continue their individual family history.
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