Charting Religion in Your Tree

After learning about the focus by Find My Past on Catholic records while watching the live-stream at RootsTech, I started to mentally calculate who in my family I may find in these new records. One by one I was eliminating people that this new record set won’t include, but quickly felt I needed to have a tool so I could visually my ancestor’s religion.

How To Make Your Own Chart

And aha! I remembered the genealogy sensation that was caused when J. Paul Hawthorne created and shared his birthplace chart. It was a great visual tool people quickly started using to see birth locations of people in their pedigree chart. I also recalled a blog post by Miriam J. Robbins at AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors which walked us through the process of creating our own chart.

My Chart

After following her how to guide I filled out my chart in with the different religions of each ancestor in my pedigree chart.

Now I can easily see which family line I need to focus on for these Catholic records, or for other records sets as well.