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#Using aeon timeline for genealogy plus#
The first thing you will want to do is make a copy of each of these sheets for as many family members for which you would like a timeline, plus one. When you do so, it appears to align the text to the left, rather than the center, but when you click the Enter key, it will realign to the center. You can personalize your timeline by renaming it in the title field. I keep the original as a template, and then make a copy of it by right-clicking on the template and choosing Copy.
#Using aeon timeline for genealogy download#
After you download it, you can make as many copies as you'd like for each of your family lines. You can view and download a copy of my Excel spreadsheet at (must use the uppercase letters). I love using Excel for my data, because it is so easy to add another column or row for more categories. For those ancestors that lived over 80 years, I add another sheet.Įventually, I discovered a way to create an electronic timeline with Excel. When using these paper forms, I like to print on both sides of the page, as there are 40 lines on each side, giving me 80 years to list my info. You can download it here and print it for your own use. I even created a form and uploaded it to my website for others to use. I took long, hard looks at those empty lines. I started using this same technique on other ancestors. The highlighted lines are what I had originally, so you can see there were a lot of blanks! I have filled in quite a bit of info for Albert and his extended family. Here's the front page of my finished project. It now made sense why his sister recorded that he had moved so frequently. As I filled out this timeline, I discovered something: Albert lived out west for most of his adult life, but as his single brothers passed away, he went back to the Midwest, staying for some time, as the state censuses testify, probably to help out on the family farm. This didn't mean that he attended those events, or even lived in the same areas. I added when his children married and his grandchildren were born. I looked for state censuses to fill the decade-long gaps between the federal censuses, and lucky for me, he lived in several states that did have state censuses! I listed when his parents died, and later, as his siblings died. Then I started entering when his children were born.
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I started entering the dates his siblings were born, to fill in those early years between his birth and the 1880 census. I began to hunt through everything I knew about Albert. However, looking at all those blank lines started the creative juices flowing. I remembered what Leslie Smith Collier had said in a presentation about timelines that we should attempt to find our ancestors on records no less than every two years! Clearly, I was failing! Of course there were ten years between censuses, and 16 between the 1930 census and his death in 1946 (this was before the 1940 census was released). There were nine years between that census and when he got married, and another nine years until the next census. For instance, the there were twelve unaccounted-for years between Albert’s birth and when I could first locate him on a census, in 1880. I decided to re-create it on another piece of lined notebook paper, but this time, I used one line for every year of Albert’s life, from 1868 to 1946, and filled in the information I knew. I felt frustrated by the timeline because it didn’t really seem to tell me much. I wondered why they had done so guessing perhaps they were following crops, although nothing was said in the history about the family members being migrant workers. In a family history, Albert’s sister had recorded that the family moved frequently between Iowa, South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Oregon. - Death - Yakima, Yakima Co., Washington.1930 - Census - South Fruitland, Payette Co., Idaho.1920 - Census - Jaqua, Cheyenne Co., Kansas.1910 - Census - Lamar, Prowers Co., Colorado.1900 - Census - Volin, Yankton Co., South Dakota.1880 - Census - Dodge Twp., Union Co., Iowa.This hit home when I created a timeline on lined notebook paper for my children’s paternal ancestor, Albert Francis Chapin, Sr. However, there is one aspect of analyzing a timeline that was made very clear to me: It is looking at what is missing that is just as important as observing what is there. This can give you an overview of your ancestor’s life and show migration patterns as he or she moves from one location to another. A simple timeline can be a piece of paper in which you list all the known events of an ancestor’s life in chronological order, listing the locations of the events as well. Many of you are familiar with timelines in genealogy.
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