The Pedigree Chart is like the skeleton and we "flesh" it out with Family Group Sheets, also known as Family Group Records or family group Charts. These charts show the mom and the dad and the kids and all their vital information.
("Vital Information" means name, date and place of birth, date and place of marriage, name of spouse, death date and place.
If you see the term "Vital Records" it means records of the 3 main events of a person's life: Their BIRTH, their MARRIAGE, their DEATH.
The pictures at the beginning of this post are 2 examples of Family Group Record forms.
Each couple on your pedigree chart has to have a Family Group record.
If one of your direct ancestors had more than one spouse, please make out a separate group sheet for them.
Example: My great grandfather Anton had a first wife named Josephine who died in childbirth while having her first child. I am not descended from her, but she is a wife of my great grandpa and so I will have a Family Group Chart with Anton as the husband and Josephine as the wife. I put #1 by the word wife on my sheet. Anton married again to a lady named Rose and he had 15 children with her. She is wife #2. I am descended from her. This couple has a family group record. Then Rose died and Anton married a third time to a lady named Frances. I made one more family group sheet with Anton as husband and Frances as wife. He had 2 children with his 3rd wife. So Anton has 3 family group sheets.
When you enter information such as this onto a computer program, they have it set up so you can click on "Other Spouses" and fill in the information.
My assignment to you: Go to a site that has free printable family group records and print some off. Start filling them out. You can do one for your parents quite easily, usually. You can also probably do one for each set of grandparents you have.
And now is the time to start asking about your great grandparents...ask people who knew them well...and so forth.
One site to go to,of course, is www.familysearch.org
Got to Forms on that first page and click on it..and then find Family Group Record Form and click on PDF. Make it 100% size and print it off. If you have a large number of children for a couple (like I did with Anton and Rose's 15 children, you'll need extra sheets.
My absolute favorite paper form for the Family Group Sheet is the one by Stevenson's Geneolgy Center at Provo, Utah. Their online site is
www.sgenealogy.com
This sheet is very easy on the eyes!!! (sorry I do not have a picture of it on this post)
1 comment:
Joannie,
While researching my son's family history I came across your blog. I am interested in what information you may have on the Anton Cera family. Please email me at jc@bobb.net. Thank you. Joy
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