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Creating Your Family Group Record

A family group record allows you to list everyone in an entire family. It will take several charts in order to complete a family group record. The family group record is several pages of one chart. The chart begins with a husband and allows you to mark if the husband remarried and has additional pages for additional marriages. Then, the chart will ask for the wife and then for each of the couple’s children. For each person listed on the family group record, the chart asks for their full name as well as important dates and places. The more information … Continue reading →

Types of Family Tree Charts

There are several different types of family tree charts. Among the most popular types are traditional and graphical family tree charts. Other common types are medieval and heraldic family tree charts. A simple family tree chart starts with the person of your choice, usually yourself, and branches out to the right showing your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on. Popular heraldic family tree charts are those for the UK, Germany, Poland, Ireland, Mexico and Scotland. These charts feature a coat of arms on the chart. Graphical family tree charts are probably what most people think of when they think of … Continue reading →

Charting and Mapping Income

I have made no secret about the fact that I am a big fan of the spreadsheet. While I am not someone who knows how to do really complicated things with my spreadsheet software programs, I can do some basic accounting and organize different things quite nicely in them. One of the tasks that I do about once a month that I find very valuable for my home business (and personal finance) is to chart and track my monthly income. I choose to track my income in a couple different ways; I track it by source (client) and then I … Continue reading →

Charts and Graphs for a Home Business

I LOVE charts and graphs. If there is an article in a magazine that includes colorful bar graphs or pie charts, that is an article I will at least look over. It was always one of those things I liked about doing annual reports and grant reports and other such things in my old career incarnation. Now that I have a simple, little home-based business, I don’t have the same opportunities for using and utilizing charts and graphs that I used to—but I still think there is a place for them in a small home business! Charts and graphs are … Continue reading →

Charts, Points, Stickers, Stars and Prizes

We have never had much luck with charts around our house. I know that some parents swear by them–and by the whole “rewards and positive feedback” way of motivating children. I guess they work for some families and kids for everything from completing homework, to brushing teeth, to getting out the door on time. But, charts and stickers and stars just never seemed to do the trick in our family… I have to be completely honest, I’m sure part of the problem was my inability to manage them. With three kids, work, and all the marvelous realities and exciting activities … Continue reading →

Using Charts and Contracts To Help Your Child Reach Goals

Using charts and contracts is a good way to help your child achieve a goal. In the book, Common Sense Parenting, the authors offer tips on how to write a contract and how to use contracts. Simply put, a contract is a written statement of what your child agrees to do and what will happen if he or she accomplishes that goal. A chart is a visual representation used to help keep track of the agreement. Some examples of goals you might want your child to reach include, keeping their bedroom clean, doing their homework and coming home on time. … Continue reading →