Now, look at the big picture.

Use the 4-Generation Pedigree Chart to map your direct ancestors. This is your skeleton — the framework that everything else will hang on.

Reading a pedigree chart

You are on the left. Each step to the right doubles: two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents. Fathers go on the upper line, mothers on the lower. Four generations fits on one page, which is exactly why this chart has survived as long as it has.

The blanks are the useful part. Every empty box is a question you can take to Step 4.

The pedigree chart is being finished and will be attached to this lesson shortly.

Try it

Fill in the gaps. The numbering is the same on every pedigree chart in the world.