Directions on Making a Family Pedigree
Family pedigree charts will show your family where each relative fits into the family. After you gather the information about present and past family members, you enter birthdays, names, marriages, death dates and spouse's names into a pedigree chart start with yourself. You can use a pedigree template to start your family tree, or use the template as a research tool to design your own pedigree chart to include more information about your relatives.
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Instructions
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Label the first page of the pedigree chart as number 1. You do not fill in any other chart and number information for the first page (chart) starting with yourself. You can use one of the sample templates in the Resource section.
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Enter your name on line number 1. Enter your birth date, place of birth, marriage date, place of marriage and leave died and place of death empty. Write in your spouse's name.
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Enter your father's information on line 2. Enter your mother's information on line 3. Enter your father's father (your grandfather) on line 4 and your father's mother (your grandmother) on line 5. Enter your mother's father (your grandfather) on line 6 and your mother's mother (your grandmother) on line 7.
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Enter your father's grandfather's name on his father's side on line 8 and his grandmother's name on line 9. Enter your father's grandfather's name on his mother's side on line 10 and his grandmother's name on line 11.
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Enter your mother's grandfather's name on her father's side on line 12 and her grandmother's name on line 13. Enter your mother's grandfather's name on her mother's side on line 14 and her grandmother's name on line 15.
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Start a new chart as page 2. Number this chart 2. In the information section where it says, "Number 1 on this chart is the same as Number ___ on pedigree chart number ___" write the line number associated with the person on chart 1. For instance, if you will start a chart for your father's grandfather on his father's side as the number 1 position on chart 2, write, "Number 1 on this chart is the same as Number 8 on pedigree chart number 1."
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Tips & Warnings
The pedigree chart starts with you as the child and continues to include parents and grandparents.
A family line can include siblings, with older brothers or sisters on the right of your name and younger brothers or sisters on the left of your name.
Resources
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