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The Personal Ancestral File program can be downloaded for free starting at the FamilySearch<sup>TM</sup> Internet Genealogy Service home page at http://www.FamilySearch.org. There are several other commercial computer programs you can purchase which also help you keep and organize genealogical information. For more information about various programs see [[Not Sure Which Genealogy Management Software to Use?|Not Sure Which Genealogy Management Software to Use?]] | The Personal Ancestral File program can be downloaded for free starting at the FamilySearch<sup>TM</sup> Internet Genealogy Service home page at http://www.FamilySearch.org. There are several other commercial computer programs you can purchase which also help you keep and organize genealogical information. For more information about various programs see [[Not Sure Which Genealogy Management Software to Use?|Not Sure Which Genealogy Management Software to Use?]] | ||
== Family Group Record == | == Family Group Record == | ||
[[Image:Family Group Record blank side 1.png|thumb|Blank family group record]][http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/images/31827_FamGrpRe.pdf Family group records] are forms with space to record information about the parents and children in one family. Good family group records show names, dates and places of births, marriages, and deaths (see the example to the right). You can enhance their value by citing the sources that document these events in the lives of family members. If you use computers to generate family group records, you also can easily display additional events such as censuses, change of residence, land purchases or sales, wills proved, and any other events in the family members' lives. The most useful family group records display as many events and sources as possible. | [[Image:Family Group Record blank side 1.png|thumb|Blank family group record]][http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/images/31827_FamGrpRe.pdf Family group records] are forms with space to record information about the parents and children in one family. Good family group records show names, dates and places of births, marriages, and deaths (see the example to the right). You can enhance their value by citing the sources that document these events in the lives of family members. If you use computers to generate family group records, you also can easily display additional events such as censuses, change of residence, land purchases or sales, wills proved, and any other events in the family members' lives. The most useful family group records display as many events and sources as possible. | ||
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You may need additional pages for large families. While modern family group records are usually letter size, other sizes such as legal size have been common in the past and can still be used. | You may need additional pages for large families. While modern family group records are usually letter size, other sizes such as legal size have been common in the past and can still be used. | ||
Create a family group record for each couple on your pedigree chart. A four-generation pedigree chart has | Create a family group record for each couple on your pedigree chart. A four-generation pedigree chart has eight couples, so you would make up to eight family group records for such a pedigree. | ||
For a person who married more than once, make another family group record for each additional marriage, especially if the marriage produced children. | For a person who married more than once, make another family group record for each additional marriage, especially if the marriage produced children. | ||
== Pedigree Chart == | == Pedigree Chart == | ||