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Creating Your Pedigree Chart

A pedigree chart is a list that shows your parents, grandparents and great grandparents. You can expand the chart to show as many of your great grandparents as you can determine. You may find it difficult to list ancestors beyond your great grandparents. This depends on how much information you can obtain. Start with the information that your immediate family members have. Has someone in your family already completed a pedigree chart of their own? You may find that someone else in your immediate family has done the majority of the work that you were about to do. If you … Continue reading →

How About a Chart For Mom or Dad?

We make charts for our children—doing homework, staying in bed at night, brushing teeth, and doing chores—and some families have a great deal of success with charts for changing and shaping behavior (my family has not always been so great in the chart department). And, as adults, we make ourselves all sorts of lists, set goals, and resolutions about changes we want to make in our lives—but why not a chart for Mom or Dad? Why not have some fun and show our kids that we are working on stuff too? When I was contemplating the idea for this blog, … Continue reading →