Chen Hussen Passey on her California Girl blog did a post A Carolina Girl – My Birthplace Pedigree Chart.  She showed that her ancestors for 5 generations have been born in either South or North Carolina. I have a similar situation when I do a death place chart.  All my ancestors for 5 generations have… Continue reading Ancestor death place chart

I came across a post today on the Rootsdig.com blog: Occupations chart.  The original idea was on the Ancestor Archaeology blog.  This idea was sparked by the recent 5 or 6 generation birthplace charts. This was a bit trickier, as many of my ancestors had multiple occupations.  For example, my dad’s occupation varied from welder to… Continue reading Ancestor occupation chart

After doing the chart for my ancestors, I decided to do my ex-husband's ancestors.  While we both have 15 ancestors who were born in Australia, there is quite a difference in where his ancestors originally came from. And here's the pie chart Since there were only a few ancestors from each country, and all of his… Continue reading Places of birth for my children’s ancestors

A message on facebook (Carmel Galvin>Australian Local & Family History Bloggers) stated that lots of folks are posting a 5 generation chart of places where ancestors were born. This is mine.   I decided to go one step further, to set up a pie chart showing the % of ancestors from a particular country. And… Continue reading Places where ancestors were born