Do not feel like you have to do everything today.

If you only have a few minutes, start with the 4-Generation Pedigree Chart. Fill in yourself, your parents, and your grandparents. Seeing those first few names in ink makes the project feel real.

You have officially started.

If you get stuck on a name

Leave it blank and keep going. A blank space is a research question, and research questions are the whole point of the worksheets that follow. You are not failing the chart. You are writing your to-do list.

Download the 4-Generation Pedigree Chart (PDF) — one page, portrait, sized to go straight into a binder. Print two or three; you will want more than one.

Try it

Would rather type than write? Do it here instead. It takes about ten minutes and you can export what you fill in at the end.