What is a Family Group Record?
A Family Group Record, sometimes called a Family Group Sheet, documents a single family unit in detail. While a pedigree chart looks backward at direct ancestors, a family group record looks sideways and downward, focusing on parents and their children.
It records the names, birth, marriage, and death information for both parents, along with details about their children. Looking at siblings and parents together can reveal naming patterns, gaps between births, migrations, remarriages, and other clues that are easy to miss when people are viewed one at a time.
Family group records also work as evidence containers. They give researchers a place to compare conflicting dates, document sources, and keep notes about why one conclusion seems stronger than another. Used together with pedigree charts, they help turn a collection of names into a connected family story.
Family 1
Husband / Partner
Born: 3 October 1867
Place:
Greenland, Michigan, USA
Married / Joined: 16 August 1899
Place: Rockland, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA
Died: 19 May 1932
Place: L'Anse , Michigan, USA
Died: May 09, 1922
Place: Rockland, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Died: 27 May 1890
Place: Rockland, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA
Born: 17 February 1880
Place: Nahma, Delta, Michigan, USA
Died: 28 July 1970
Place: L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Died: 9 May 1914
Place: Escanaba, Delta County, Michigan, USA
Born: 8 August 1860
Place: Clinton County, New York, USA
Died: 29 March 1893
Place: Garden, Delta County, Michigan, USA
Children
Listed in birth order when known. Select a child for the full genealogy record.
Born 14 February 1901
Rockland, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA
Married
10 February 1923
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Died 2 June 1978
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Born 1 March 1903
Rockland, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA
Married
10 May 1919
Winona, Houghton, Michigan, USA
Married
14 August 1920
Houghton, Houghton, Michigan, USA
Died 22 April 1990
Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, USA
Born 19 August 1905
Rockland, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA
Married
11 January 1935
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Died 15 October 1977
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Born 18 January 1907
Rockland, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA
Married
14 November 1928
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Died 12 March 1991
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Born 14 June 1911
Rockland, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA
Married
23 May 1931
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Died 14 July 1978
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Born 11 October 1913
Rockland, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA
Married
11 May 1935
Assinins, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Died 1 May 1977
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Born 13 June 1920
Winona, Houghton, Michigan, USA
Married
6 April 1942
, Louisiana, USA
Married
23 November 1945
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA
Died 24 December 1991
L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, USA