Calling all
Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again
-
Time for some
more Genealogy Fun!!
Our assignment today is from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing:
1. DNAsleuth (Ann Raymont)
created a 7-in-1 chart showing 7 generations of ancestors on one page several
weeks ago - see her blog post at https://dnasleuth.wordpress.com/2020/09/01/7-gen-1-sheet/. In her post, there is a link to her Word document if
you wish to use it.
2. Linda Stufflebean's
husband, Dave, took the concept a step further, and created an Excel template
of the 7-in-1 chart. You can download Dave's file from my Google Drive
at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7rTacxacWVCWxUEWq5pAArJCv8mCZWT/view?usp=sharing.
Linda's chart is in https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2020/09/using-excel-to-display-7-family-generations-on-1-sheet/ (I opened it to "Editor" so you can download
it and work with it).
Here is an image of the blank
7-in-1 chart:
3. The challenge tonight is
to fill out your 7-in-1 chart and show it to us. I used the spreadsheet,
added the ancestor numbers while adding the names (starting with 1 = me, 2-
father, 3= mother, etc.). I added the names and birth-death years
(if known) for the first 7 generations. Then I colored the boxes by birth
place by countries, and saved my chart as an XLS file. I then saved my
chart as a JPG by using the Windows Snipping Tool to create the image. This
task took me an hour to complete, so plan ahead!
Here is my post:
I did two of them, one for my family and one for my husband’s
family. I didn’t use the same colors in both charts for the same countries.
Norman's Swedish side looks like my mother's Russian Empire side. But I have to question a lot of the ones you have coded as "Germany." Several of those are early enough that there was no "Germany", just a bunch of individual German states. I think you need more granularity and more colors. :)
ReplyDeleteYou are right. I should have listed Westfalia, Wurttemberg, and Pfalz. Some of the really early ones I have no idea where, perhaps they were Palatines.
DeleteThe names are a giveaway on your Scandinavian branches. You should have included a color legend - it's always fun to see where everyone's ancestors came from.
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