A Family Tree is a way to talk about the branching of all the grandparents, great-grandparents and so on in our ancestral history. We can graphically show that branching in a pedigree chart. In that traditional chart, the father and the mother are connected tot he child who is in the middle on the left edge of the page. Then, the father’s parents, the subject’s grandparents, are on the next space to the right, with the mother’s parents below the center. We keep adding columns to the right as we have that information. It means that the very top line is father to father to father, the all male line. The very bottom line is mother to mother to mother, the all female line. This is especially important with DNA for genealogy, because the Y-DNA is carried relatively unaltered in that top all-male line. The mitochondrial DNA is carried relatively unaltered in the bottom all-female line.
In this section, we have collected all the pedigree charts that seem most important for our ancestry. On our computers and online at Ancestry, we have considerably more information that is displayed publicly and available to anyone.
5 Gen Pedigree Chart for Elen Kjistine Jacobsdtr Lee
5 Gen Pedigree Chart for Bertha Halvorsdtr Hovland