Pedigree chart maker
The classic numbered ancestor chart: one person on the left, 4 or 5 generations of forebears to the right, on one printable page, continued on further charts as far back as your tree goes. From your own tree, or blank to fill in by hand. Free, no sign-up, nothing uploaded.
Ahnentafel numbering: the person in box 1 is the one the chart starts with, the father of any number n is 2n and the mother 2n + 1. Write the chart's number top right, and in the last column which chart each line goes on to.
Shortened to fit
These names or dates did not fit their box at the smallest legible size (2.2 mm names, 2 mm dates), so the chart shows them cut with … and lists them in full at the foot of the page. In full:
This page only reads. It draws the tree that the family tree maker keeps in this browser, or a file you open, and never changes, saves or uploads either.
How a pedigree chart is read
The person the chart is about sits in box 1 on the left. Their father is box 2 and their mother box 3; the father of any box n is box 2n and the mother 2n + 1. These are Ahnentafel numbers, the system genealogists have used since Michael Eytzinger's book of 1590, so every father has an even number and every mother an odd one, and you can find anyone without lines: your mother's father's mother is 13, because 3 × 2 = 6 and 6 × 2 + 1 = 13.
Each box holds the name and lines for b. born, m. married and d. died. The marriage is written once, on the father's box, for the couple, as paper forms do. Dates print exactly as typed in your tree, so "1182 LT" or "Year 312 of the Third Age" stay as written; a place typed into the date ("1262 LT, Saltby") prints with it. Anything not known leaves a writing line, so a printed chart doubles as a worksheet. A thin stripe on the left of a box is the colour of the person's birth house.
Worked example. The example is the invented Saltby coast family of the fan chart: Wren Ashcombe and 40 forebears over seven generations. At 5 generations, chart 1 holds 28 of its 31 boxes; six people in the last column have known parents, so it is continued on charts 2 to 7. Chart 2 starts with Merrick Ashcombe, who is no. 16 on chart 1 and box 1 on chart 2; his father is box 2 there. Printed, that is 7 pages.
Continued on chart N
One page holds 5 generations (31 boxes) or 4 (15 boxes, with more room to write). When someone in the last column has known parents, a marker beside them says continued on chart 4, and chart 4 starts with that person as its box 1. Its heading says where it came from ("No. 1 on this chart is no. 20 on chart 1") and their Ahnentafel number counted from the first chart. Charts are numbered in reading order: chart 1's last column top to bottom, then the charts that follow from chart 2, and so on. Tap a marker to open its chart; Print makes all of them.
When cousins married, the same ancestor can turn up twice. They get one continuation chart, and both markers point to it.
Blank pedigree chart
Choose Blank, to fill in by hand for the empty form: 31 numbered boxes for 5 generations (15 for 4) with writing lines for name, birth, marriage and death, and place lines where the boxes are big enough; in the smallest boxes born and died share a line. The heading has blanks for the chart's own number and for where its box 1 comes from, and the last column has a cont. on chart ___ line, so several printed forms chain together the same way.
Where the tree comes from
The tree saved in this browser by the family tree maker or one of its versions (fantasy, royal dynasty, original characters), a .dankstory-tree.json file, or a .ged GEDCOM 5.5.1 file from a genealogy program. The fan chart maker reads the same trees and puts everyone in the same numbered place.
What it cannot do
No places or marriage dates of their own. Dankstory trees keep born and died as free text and whether a couple married, not when or where, so the marriage line stays blank to fill in, and a place shows only if you typed it into a date. A GEDCOM file's places (PLAC) and marriage dates are not read in.
Ancestors only, 4 or 5 generations a page. There is no descendant chart here, and no 6-generation page: 63 boxes on A4 would leave names about 1.5 mm tall. The chain stops at 60 charts; to go further, start a new chain from a later ancestor.
Small type in the last column. On 5 generations the last column's names are 2.2 to 2.9 mm tall (about 6 to 8 pt) and fit about 25 to 30 characters; longer names are cut with … and listed in full at the foot of the page and under the chart here. Pick 4 generations for larger boxes. Titles, notes and portraits are not drawn.
Sex is guessed for the order. Trees here do not record sex, so the father's box is chosen as on the fan chart: the royal-dynasty page's Counts for succession as field or a GEDCOM file's SEX line first, then the first partner of the couple. If a couple comes out the wrong way round, set that field on the royal dynasty page and save the file again. Adoptive and foster parents are drawn in the parents' boxes, like on the tree, with no mark that they are not birth parents.
Printing is the browser's. Each page is laid out at the exact size of the paper; a printer that cannot print to the edge may trim a millimetre or two of the 9 mm margin, never the boxes. If your print window adds a margin, choose None, or the chart is scaled down to fit.