How Do You Make A Family Tree Diagram?
Creating a family tree can either be a wonderful exercise to learn about your family history, or an essential task to gather information about a history of illness. This task can get complicated at times, but there are standardized ways of representing your family’s history that can immensely help to keep the mass of information in order. Gather as much information as possible about your family and its history. You’ll want not only information like name and age, but also marriage and adoption history. Depending on the depth of your graph, you may want to sensitively approach the question of stillbirths or miscarriages. You may want to collect medical information–genetic information, in particular. Draw the basic outline of your tree–starting from yourself or the family members you know best–and working your way out. To start, female family members are designated with a circle, and male family members with a square. Individuals of unknown sex–fetuses in the first few trimesters, for
