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Five-Generation Ancestor Chart
Chart # ___
1 on this chart =___ on chart #___
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birth date and place
marriage date and place
death date and place
1 22
birth date and place
marriage date and place
death date and place
spouse
3 death date and place
birth date and place
death date and place
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marriage date and place
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death date and place
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birth date and place
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birth date and place
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marriage date and place
death date and place
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birth date and place 15
death date and place
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marriage date and place
death date and place 18
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death date and place 20
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 Family Group Sheet
The _____________________________________________________________ Family

Husband Source #

Full Name________________________________________________________ ____________

Birth Date________________ Place__________________________________ ____________
Marriage Date_____________ Place__________________________________ ____________
Death Date_______________ Place__________________________________ ____________
Burial________________ _______________________________________ ____________
His Father________________________________________________________ ____________
His Mother with Maiden Name_______________________________________ ____________

Wife
Full Name________________________________________________________ ____________
Birth Date________________ Place__________________________________ ____________
Death Date_______________ Place__________________________________ ____________
Burial________________ _______________________________________ ____________
Her Father________________________________________________________ ____________
Her Mother with Maiden Name_______________________________________ ____________

Other Spouses
Full Name________________________________________________________ ____________
Marriage Date and Place________________________________________ ____________
Full Name________________________________________________________ ____________
Marriage Date and Place________________________________________ ____________

Death and Spouse and

Children Birth Date
Burial Dates Marriage Date
of This Marriage and Place
and Places and Place

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Full Name (Maiden Name for Women): _______________________________________________

Social Security Number:___________________________________________________________

Nicknames and Alternate Names: ___________________________________________________

Surname Spelling Variations: _______________________________________________________

Birth and Baptism

Birth Date:___________________________ Birth Place:________________________________
Baptism Date: ________________________ Baptism Place:______________________________

Marriage(s) and Divorce(s)

Name of Spouse(s) Marriage Date(s) Marriage Place(s)

Name of Spouse(s) Divorce Date(s) Divorce Place(s)

Death
Death Date: _________________________ Death Place: ______________________________
Burial Date:__________________________ Burial Church/Place: ________________________
Obituary Date(s) and Newspaper(s): _________________________________________________

Military Service

Conflict (if applicable) Unit Dates/Years

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Migration

Departure/
Ship
From To Arrival Companion(s)
(if applicable)
Dates

Personal Information
Schools Attended:_______________________________________________________________
Religion/Church(es) Attended: _____________________________________________________
Hobbies/Club/Memberships: ______________________________________________________

Children

Child’s Name Birth Date Birthplace Other Parent

Friends, Witnesses, and Neighbors to Research

Name Relationship

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BUSINESS AND
EMPLOYMENT
Ȗ apprentice and
indenture records
Ȗ company newsletters
Ȗ doctors’ and midwives’
journals
Ȗ insurance records
Ȗ merchants’ account
books
Ȗ patents
Ȗ professional licenses
Ȗ railroad, mining and
factory records
Ȗ records of professional
organizations
Ȗ Social Security
applications (SS5)
CEMETERY AND
FUNERAL HOME
Ȗ burial records
Ȗ grave-relocation records
Ȗ tombstone inscriptions
CENSUSES
Ȗ agriculture schedules
(1850–1880)
Ȗ American Indian
Ȗ Civil War veterans
schedules (1890)
Ȗ defective, dependent
and delinquent (DDD)
schedules (1880)
Ȗ federal censuses
(1790–1940)
Ȗ manufacturing/industry
schedules (1810–1820,
1850–1880)
Ȗ mortality schedules
(1850–1880)
Ȗ school censuses
Ȗ slave schedules (1850,
1860)
Ȗ social statistics schedules
(1850–1880)
Ȗ state/territorial and local
censuses
Records Checklist
CHURCH
Ȗ baptism and christening
records
Ȗ confirmation records
Ȗ congregational histories
Ȗ marriage banns
Ȗ meeting minutes
Ȗ membership, admission
and removal records
Ȗ ministers’ journals
COURT
Ȗ adoption records
Ȗ bastardy cases
Ȗ coroners’ files
Ȗ criminal records
Ȗ custody papers
Ȗ estate inventories
Ȗ guardianship papers
Ȗ insanity/commitment
orders
Ȗ licenses and permits
Ȗ marriage bonds, licenses
and certificates
Ȗ military discharges
Ȗ minute books
Ȗ name changes
Ȗ naturalizations
Ȗ property foreclosures
Ȗ voter registrations
Ȗ wills
Ȗ wolf-scalp bounties
DIRECTORIES
Ȗ biographical
Ȗ city
Ȗ occupational/
professional
Ȗ telephone
HOME SOURCES
Ȗ baby books
Ȗ baptism and
confirmation certificates
Ȗ birth certificates
Ȗ checkbooks and bank MILITARY
statements Ȗ draft records
Ȗ death records Ȗ pension applications
Ȗ diaries and journals Ȗ records of relocation and
Ȗ family Bibles interment camps
Ȗ funeral/memorial cards Ȗ service records
Ȗ heirlooms and artifacts
NEWSPAPERS
Ȗ letters and postcards
Ȗ birth announcements
Ȗ medical records
Ȗ classified advertisements
Ȗ photographs
Ȗ engagement, marriage
Ȗ prayer cards and anniversary
Ȗ recipe books announcements
Ȗ school report cards Ȗ ethnic newspapers
Ȗ scrapbooks Ȗ family reunion
Ȗ wedding albums announcements
Ȗ wills Ȗ immigrant ship notices
Ȗ gossip and advice
Ȗ yearbooks
columns
IMMIGRATION Ȗ legal notices
Ȗ alien registration cards
Ȗ local news
Ȗ citizenship papers Ȗ obituaries/death notices
Ȗ passenger lists Ȗ runaway notices (slaves,
Ȗ passports and passport indentured servants,
applications wives)
Ȗ unclaimed-mail notices
INSTITUTIONAL
Ȗ almshouses PUBLISHED SOURCES
Ȗ fraternal associations Ȗ compiled genealogies
Ȗ hospitals Ȗ genealogical periodicals
Ȗ orphanages Ȗ local histories
Ȗ police registers Ȗ record abstracts and
Ȗ prisons transcriptions
Ȗ schools VITAL
Ȗ work-farms Ȗ amended birth
certificates
LAND AND PROPERTY
Ȗ birth certificates
Ȗ deeds
Ȗ delayed birth certificates
Ȗ grants and patents
Ȗ death certificates
Ȗ homestead records
Ȗ marriage licenses and
Ȗ mortgages and leases certificates
Ȗ plat maps Ȗ stillbirth certificates
Ȗ surveys Ȗ divorce/annulment
Ȗ tax rolls decrees
Ȗ warrants
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 Relationship Chart
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Identify the most recent common ancestor of the two
individuals with the unknown relationship.
2. Determine the common ancestor’s relationship to each person (for example, grandpar-
ent or great-grandparent).
3. In the topmost row of the chart, find the common ancestor’s relationship to cousin number
one. In the far-left column, find the common ancestor’s relationship to cousin number two.
4. Trace the the row and column from step 3. The square where they meet shows the two
individuals’ relationship.

The Most Recent Common Ancestor is Number One’s...

parent grandparent great-grand- great-great- third-great- fourth-great-

parent grandparent grandparent grandparent

parent siblings nephew or grandnephew great-grand- great-great- third-great-

niece or -niece nephew or grandnephew grandnephew
The Most Recent Common Ancestor is Number Two’s...

-niece or -niece or -niece

grand- nephew or first cousins first cousins first cousins first cousins first cousins
parent niece once removed twice removed three times four times
removed removed

great- grandnephew first cousins second cousins second cousins second cousins second cousins
grand- or -niece once removed once removed twice removed three times
parent removed

great- great-grand- first cousins second cousins third cousins third cousins third cousins
great- nephew or twice removed once removed once removed twice removed
grand- -niece
parent

third- great-great- first cousins second cousins third cousins fourth cousins fourth cousins
great- grandnephew three times twice removed once removed once removed
grand- or -niece removed
parent

fourth- third-great- first cousins second cousins third cousins fourth cousins fifth cousins
great- grandnephew four times three times twice removed once removed
grand- or -niece removed removed
parent

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 Online Search Tracker

Collection Name: _____________________________________ Website: _______________

Name Keywords
First and Middle Names Last Name

Events Relationships
Date Location Relationship First Name Last Name

Birth

Arrival

Lived In

Marriage

Death

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 Surname Variant Worksheet

Surname

Place of Origin

Phonetic
Variants

Possible
Variations
into English

Surname
Suffixes
(-son, -datter, etc.)

Other
Spellings/
Variants

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 Oral History Interview Record

Interview Date: ___________________ Interview Place: _____________________________________________________________

Name of Interviewer: ___________________________ Relationship to Interviewee: ______________________________________
Name of Interviewee: ___________________________ Other Names:__________________________________________________
Recording Format: _____________________________ Recording Location: ____________________________________________

Notes from the Interview

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 US Census Checklist

Ancestor Name 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940

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 Source Documentation Guide
Examples of what to enter in your genealogy software.

Source Title Author Publisher Location/Repository Call No. Volume/Page No.

Bible record Green-White-Crume Family New York: J. Emory and B. Waugh Rick Crume, Glyndon,
Bible for the Methodist Episcopal Minnesota
Church, 1829

Book A History of Old Tioga Louise (Welles) Athens, Pennsylvania.: L.W. Library of Congress, F159 A9M9 pp. 484-485
Point and Early Athens, Murray Murray, 1908 Washington, DC
Pennsylvania

Cemetery William Myers tombstone, Photographed by Rick Crume,

marker Schenevus Cemetery, May 2005
Maryland, Otsego County,
New York

Census record [Jonathan Hall household,]* Ancestry.com <www.ancestry. pp. 250-251

1850 US Census, Cuba, com>
Allegany County, New York

Church record Register of baptisms, St. Paul’s Family History Library, FHL microfilm p. 217
marriages and interments, Church, Salt Lake City, Utah 384,843
1759-1865 Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
(Episcopal)

International [Thomas Morgan and Joan FamilySearch <www.family citing microfilm

Genealogical Jones marriage entry,]* search.org> 934,310 for batch
Index International Genealogical 7,401,710, sheet 20
Index (IGI)

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Source Title Author Publisher Location/Repository Call No. Volume/Page No.

Land record [Deed of sale, William Clay County Recorder, book B, p. 142
Pennington to Jarvis A. Moorhead, Minnesota
Grant,]* Clay County,
Minnesota deeds

Military record Martin B. Van Buren, New HeritageQuest Online <www.heritage

York, Revolutionary War questonline.com>
pension file

Isabella Pennington obituary The Aroostook Times, Houlton, Fogler Library, p. 7

Obituary Maine, Friday, 16 December 1898 University of
Maine, Orono

Oral history Oral interview with Doris Rick Crume, Notes by Rick Crume Rick Crume,
interview (Morgan) (Lee) Kuehn of interviewer Glyndon, Minnesota
Crookston, Minnesota, 4
July 1992

Passenger list Ellis Island The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island <www.ellisisland.

Foundation org>

Pedigree Howard C. Griffin Ancestors Karen Hale RootsWeb’s WorldConnect <worldconnect.

database Project rootsweb.com>

Vital record John Hall entry, Rice County Clerk of the District
Deaths Court, Rice County,
Faribault, Minnesota

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