2007-10-06 02:26:05 · 4 answers · asked by pixiedustkim 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
For the "standard" tree, the goal is showing your direct ancestry, ie parents, grandparents, so forth. I have seen more graphic oriented trees where someone tries to squeeze all of the family on.. but that's a personal preference.
For hard core "working" papers, folks normally use 2 separate charts. The first (the pedigree chart) is the same as what you may call a tree. The second standard form is the family group sheet, where you list both dad/mom with their details, and note the names of their parents (for linking/reference only) and then the children of this couple, with their details (name of their spouse then connect them to their own fgs). Sometimes folks whose goal is huge numbers of names, will take each group sheet, and track 'down' to every descendent. That's when people had to invent genealogy programs to keep all of them straight.
If you are just starting out.. you can normally work with a family group sheet for each of your direct couples. You can even put them on lined notebook paper, and file them in a binder.
Then you wind up obsessed like the rest of us, and you have to build a room to keep all the binders.
But it is fun...
2007-10-06 02:38:32 · answer #1 · answered by wendy c 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If one is to use a "tree", one would need a giant piece of paper and a giant working space.
In the typical software family tree, it would be listed under the names of parents.
If you use a word document and type as much info as you can, it would, again, be listed under the parents.
2007-10-06 09:11:43 · answer #2 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many ways of finding the infomation you want, and I have included the links you will need to help you. Of course, in addition to this, you can also use the resources at your local library, they are only too happy to help you with your searches and queries.
www.google.com
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/web
http://findarticles.com/
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
http://www.aresearchguide.com/
http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/886...
http://www.studentresearcher.com/search/...
http://www.chacha.com/
2007-10-10 02:15:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
right next to you. the same way your little line connects to your parents
2007-10-06 02:28:15 · answer #4 · answered by i like toast 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋