I've posted a number of pretty charts that may inspire you when you have completed your research and are ready to calligraphy or print neatly.
This may surprise you but I don't like ANY of the free research charts that are offered by big genealogy databases or genealogy clubs that I've found. I mean are the ones you use while you're doing your research.
My main reasons are:
NOT ENOUGH ROOM : Lines or boxes too close together. To handprint or type in these you may have to read with a magnifying glass.
PRESUMPTONS ABOUT HOW MANY CHILDREN BORN IN A FAMILY. Some family group forms are limited to two pages. There isn't even an option to list more than seven children such as a third or fourth page.
BAPTISMAL DATES MORE IMPORTANT THAN BIRTH DATES. One of my big issues is that the what is more important to genealogy is the birth date. When every child in the village seems to have been baptized within days of its birth, OK, maybe that's not too far off, but I've found the baptismals that took place months after the birth too. In the databases the baptismal date is being used instead. This means you have to read the originals and go back and forth a few months at least. Some of these forms are overly religious to me.
THE SOLUTION? Just type it out, neatly, and KEEP CONSISTANT TO YOUR OWN FORMAT.
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