Family Group Sheet
Although the Family History Family Group sheet does not contain much ‘color’ when it comes to an individual’s life, it is still an extremely important document, as it links this individual to the other members of their immediate family.
When filling in your group sheet, it is always best to start with the parents, recording their full name and Individual sheet number and then their parent’s names and the related individual sheet numbers. Then you can move on to the marriage date of the mother and father.
Once you have completed this you can move on to the children of the two people named as parents. Again, add their full name and the corresponding individual sheet number. For married daughters of the couple whether use their married name or not is entirely up to you, but a word of advice, if you choose to use married names then keep it consistent on all of your group sheets to save confusion in the future.
Please note: I have deliberately kept the information contained within this group sheet to the bare minimum. I do realise that some other family group sheets contain birth and death dates and locations but I believe this information is better left to be placed on the person’s Individuals Detail Sheet.
So, what is on the Family Group Sheet?
First Page:
1. Chart Details
- The Address of the family, and
- The Sheet Number for this particular Family Group.
2. Husband
- The Name and Individual Sheet Number,
- The Father and the Father’s Individual Sheet Number, and
- The Mother and the Mother’s Individual Sheet Number.
3. Marriage
- The Marriage Date,
- The Location of where the marriage to place, and
- Marriage Number.
4. Wife
- The Name and Individual Sheet Number,
- The Father and the Father’s Individual Sheet Number, and
- The Mother and the Mother’s Individual Sheet Number.
4. Children
- The Names and the Individual Sheet Numbers of each child in the family.
Second Page:
5. Sources
- Room to show all the information you have on the sources.
6. Additional Information
- Room for any additional Information that you may consider relevant.
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