In 2016, I shared my five generation birthplace pedigree chart here on blog. Today I just finished creating a slightly different pedigree chart. This time I included the birth places and death places of my ancestors in a five generation pedigree chart. I think it's an interesting visual chart that shows immigration in my family tree.
I used an Excel spreadsheet to create this chart. I assigned each country a specific solid color. I've included the country/color legend at the bottom of the pedigree chart.
For my immigrant ancestors who were born and died in different countries, I used two colors in their specific cell on the spreadsheet: the color of their birth country and the color of the country where they died.
For instance, I am in the first spot in the pedigree chart. I was born in the USA. My mom was born in Brazil and died in the USA. So her spot in this chart has both yellow (Brazil) and blue (USA) in gradient form with yellow at the top because she was born in Brazil and blue at the bottom because she died in the USA. Her grandfather, however, has blue at the top of his cell and yellow at the bottom of the cell because he was born in the USA and died in Brazil. I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, I really like how this chart came out. It's an interesting way to see how many immigrants I have in my five generation pedigree chart.
Have you made a pedigree chart like this?
Thanks for stopping by!
Jana
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