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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?]] <!--{12077689170340} --><!--{12077689170341} --><!--{12077689170342} --><!--{12077689170343} --> <!--{12077689170344} --> <!--{12077689170345} --> <!--{12077689170346} --> | 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?]] <!--{12077689170340} --><!--{12077689170341} --><!--{12077689170342} --><!--{12077689170343} --> <!--{12077689170344} --> <!--{12077689170345} --> <!--{12077689170346} --> | ||
== '''Family Group Record''' == | == '''Family Group Record''' == | ||
[[Image:Family Group Record blank side 1.png|thumb|Blank family group record]]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]]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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Start research on a new family by compiling a well-documented family group record. This will help you gather, correlate, and analyze information. A well source-footnoted family group record bristles with clues to help you find further sources. For a more detailed explanation of their value see [[Family group record: roadmap for researchers|Family group record: roadmap for researchers]]. | |||
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. | |||
For a person who married more than once, make another family group record for each additional marriage, especially if the marriage produced children. | Create a family group record for each couple on your pedigree chart. A four-generation pedigree chart has seven couples, so you would make up to seven family group records for such a pedigree. | ||
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== '''Pedigree Chart''' == | == '''Pedigree Chart''' == | ||