If you're seeing for a blank family tree chart, you've come to the right place. The link below will take you to my website where you can download a simple four generation chart in Pdf format for free.
After you do that, here are some foremost tips to help you fill it out correctly.
Do It Yourself
First off, in genealogy, a family is defined as a father, a mother and their children. The mother and father don't have to be married to each other; they don't even have to live under the same roof.
This "family" plan is the most overall way of holding track of any single blood line, encompassing all children born in the middle of two single people; right or wrong, legal or illegal, moral or not. What matters is the bloodline of each personel on your family tree and how they reveal to you.
Genealogy Tip #1
It is easier to keep up than catch up.
Document everything. Yes, it is time involving but not nearly as time involving as having to re-research something you already spent hours on just because you forgot to get the page number. Do it right the first time and it will only take seconds as opposed to hours.
On your first blank family tree chart - also called a pedigree chart - you'll need to fill in the Chart estimate - which is 1. Then fill in "Pedigree Chart for (Your Name) who is person #1 on chart #1."
Genealogy Tip #2
Start with yourself. No one knows you like you do. Or do they? After getting bit by the genealogy bug, some folks have learned that they were adopted or the man they plan was their dad was not. In my husband's case, he was only the second generation to bear his single last name, the original simplified courtesy of Ellis Island when his family emigrated from Holland.
On the far left of the blank family tree chart, in the first slot, write "#1," and then Print the name that you were born with. As you expand into your explore you will survey that many citizen have illegible handwriting and you will love those dear souls who printed. Handwriting has changed much in the last 200 years and there will be more changes in the next 200 years. Have mercy on your great great grandchildren who will be the keeper of this family tree you are starting. Some genealogists prefer to print the surname (last name) in capital letters.
Genealogy Tip #3
When you start to grow your family tree, it's not only what you know about yourself, but what you can prove. Do you have your birth certificate? If so, passage the data that is found there. If you have an official state document, you can consider this "confirmed" or "documented" information. Make a copy of it and keep it with your pedigree chart. Do not keep any original documents in the family tree files that you take out of your home when you're off doing research.
Over the years, genealogists have struggled with a consistent way to write dates. Slowly custom has evolved to the 2/3/4 formula: Day (two digits) Month (three letter abbreviation) Year (four digits). The three letter abbreviations for the months are all the time the first three letters of any single month. Example: 31 Mar 1841.
In the space provided on your blank family tree chart, write down the date you were born: Day Month Year.
Genealogy Tip #4
Before you article your birth place, there's someone else rule to learn. When documenting any data, from dates to places, genealogists think: small, medium, large. A day is smaller than a month; a month is smaller than a year.
The same rule holds true for location. Village, town or city first. Succeed that with the county if you know it. Then the state and country. Small to large. Example: Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, Usa.
Genealogy Tip #5
Our generation is not the first generation to marry manifold times, and as a genealogist one shouldn't pass judgment on Great Granny Dupont who married seven times -- once to a first cousin and once to her mother's sister's widowed husband. If you are currently married, or widowed, fill in the date that you married and where. Fill in the name of your spouse: first, middle and the last name that they were born with.
If you've been married manifold times and have had children with other spouses, print someone else blank family tree chart for each marriage and fill it in with identical data Except for marriage/spouse information. Label it Chart estimate 1B (Spouse #2), 1C (Spouse #3), 1D (Spouse #4) and so on. Put the most current chart on top, this should be Chart # 1, and staple the rest together underneath. You'll get to them later.
Genealogy Tip #6
Most blank family tree charts are filled in left to right.
So, take a step to the right and begin filling in the slot representing your parents, just like you did for yourself. On the topmost line, write #2 and your father's information. #3 is for your mother. Remember that when filling in a chart, the males are all the time on top, with the "distaff side" (females), beneath. Apparently the "missionary position" has all the time dictated a woman's place in history. Also, other than Yourself who is #1, the males will all the time be even numbers and the females will all the time be the odd numbers.
Genealogy Tip #7
Many genealogists enter data onto their charts in pencil. This is called "The Working Chart." When they are definite that all data for that person is precise and documented, they reenter it into a new, clean chart in pen.
Where to Get a Blank family Tree Chart, Plus 7 Genealogy Tips
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