How To Complete Family Trees, Ancestry Landscape Charts?

A landscape family tree ancestry chart will print out horizontally to enable you to have a bit more space to record your family history. The extra area gained with a landscape layout will allow you to record the information in a slightly larger font, making your family tree easy to read. The landscape family tree ancestry layout will allow the information in your family tree to be written clearly. It’s important that the ancestry information is recorded inaccurately.

The landscape family tree and ancestry chart will include you, your parents and your grandparents. Compiling one of these for each member of your immediate family is easily done, and can be a great beginning to an extended search. Once you have mastered the three-generation family tree, it’s much easier to move onto larger projects. The completed three-generation landscape charts that you finish will make very nice gifts at Christmas or for birthday or anniversary gifts

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When writing in your three generation family tree landscape chart, there are certain standard methods that should be used. Before you even begin it’s best to have a system of organization in place so that valuable data is not lost or misplaced. You may spend a lot of time researching, and it would be a shame for all of that d effort to go to waste simply because you forgot where you put something. Other family members may provide you with valuable documents; it would be wise to have somewhere safe to put them. If you receive an original document, especially an old one, make a copy as soon as possible and either return it or store it somewhere safe.

There is a method of numbering called the Ahnentafel system that allows for the building of a quick reference way of identifying family members. Each family member is given a number in a defined sequence, and their relationship with other family members can be identified solely on the basis of what their number is. If I was looking at a chart which contained only numbers, I would know that the number 6 represents my mother’s father. The following is a simple explanation of how I would establish that.

Believe it or not, knowing the formula to decipher the Ahnentafel system is not as complicated or involved as it may seem. After all, it was designed by an Austrian historian for quick identification of the relationships between family members in an ancestry table. It begins with the first member on the family tree chart.

That first person is given the number 1. The father of each person thereafter is assigned a number equal to double the child’s number. If I was the first person my father’s number would be two, his father’s 4 and so on. Each person’s mother is designated a number that is double the child’s plus one. I am one; my mother would be three, her mother 7, and her father – the number 6 that I recognized in the previously mentioned chart.

Written out in list form a three generation family tree Ahnentafel table would look like this:

1. Self - born Mar. 17, 1946, New Haven, Conn., USA; married Feb.16, 1965 to Daniela Loretta Macpherson
2. Father – born July 16, 1927, Acton, Mass. USA; married April 2, 1964 Hamilton, Bermuda
3. Mother – born May 17, 1927, Gillingham, Kent, England UK,
4. Paternal grandfather – born August 23, 1903, Acton, Mass., USA; married Honolulu, Hawaii Sept. 09, 1925; died Jan. 27, 1987 Acton, Mass.
5. Paternal grandmother – born Mar. 03, 1905, Clearwater, Fl., USA; died June 12, 1988 Acton, Mass.
6. Maternal grandfather – born June 07, 1901 Portmarnock, Co. Dublin, Ireland; married April 15, 1919 St. Patrick’s Church, Dublin, Ireland; died May 28, 1993, Gillingham, Kent, UK
7. Maternal grandmother – born Feb. 16, 1903 Malahide, Co. Dublin, Ireland; died Nov. 11, 1983, Gillingham, Kent, UK

When the time comes to write this information into your three generation landscape chart, it can be done in no time. Make sure that you write the information in clearly and accurately in the very same way. This will ensure the longevity of your family history.