Pedigree Charts and Family Group Sheets

Chapter Two of Drew Smith’s wonderful guidebook, Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy, is about relationships: Father and Mother, Siblings, Aunts and Uncles, Cousins, Greats and Grands, Double Cousins, the Removes, and more. Smith discusses the origins of the terms we use to express relationships, and then he goes on to explain how genealogists have come to visualize and arrange them for organizational purposes. The relationship formats that have stood the test of time are the pedigree chart and the family group sheet. Each one has its own benefits. If one or both is new to you, you can have a looksee below at the samples Drew Smith has incorporated into Generation by Generation.

Pedigree Charts and Family Group Sheet Sample