5-generation pedigree chart template
Short answerA 5-generation pedigree chart traces your direct line back to your sixteen 2nd great-grandparents, 31 people in all, usually born more than a century before you. It is the standard research chart genealogists use. The blank template below is numbered for you, and Family Trees draws the same chart from your data.
The template
Open the file in your browser and print it (choose landscape and “fit to page”), or open it in any app that reads SVG to type into it. Free to print, copy and share.
How to fill it in
- Fill what you know first: you, parents, grandparents.
- Use the numbers to keep lines straight. Box 16 is your father’s father’s father’s father.
- Write approximate dates as “abt. 1890” rather than leaving them out; they still help.
- When a line runs out, continue it on a new chart with that person in box 1.
Who it suits
Anyone researching records, swapping notes with relatives, or preparing for a family history trip.
Make it online instead
Paper fills up and can’t be shared with cousins. In Family Trees, add each person once with a photo and the Ancestors view draws this chart for you, with round portraits, and keeps it up to date as relatives fill in their branches. Switch to any of the five views at any time. Free for up to 100 people; posters of any view, from Letter size up to 36 × 24 inches, come with Plus.
Questions
How many people fit on a 5-generation pedigree chart?
This template has 31 boxes across 5 generations.
Is the template free?
Yes. Download it, print as many copies as you like and share it.
Can I fill it in on a computer?
Open the SVG file in a drawing or design app that reads SVG, or build the same chart in the Family Trees web app, which draws it from your family automatically.