Start with yourself and your spouse as the Husband and Wife. Print this blank Family Group Sheet and use it to begin recording details about the families of each direct ancestor on your Ancestor Chart.
In the second Family Group Record, he or she is either the Husband or Wife. In the first Family Group Record, the direct ancestor is listed (with his or her siblings) in the 'Children' section on his or her parents' Family Group Record. Each Family Group Record provides details about each married partner (husband and wife), together with information about each of their children.Įach direct ancestor on an Ancestor Chart appears in two Family Group Records.
(For genealogical purposes, a nuclear family is defined as a family group consisting of two married parents and their legal children).
A Family Group Record documents information about nuclear families.
