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A few days ago I ran across an Instagram post from Cathie (@ancestordiscovery) that brought me back a few years. She posted an image of an ancestor birth place chart she created based on the one that J Paul Hawthrone (@jpaulhawthorne) created back in 2016. His chart went viral, with many genealogists creating and posting their own. Of course, I was one of those (see my original post below).

Seeing that chart again got me thinking: What have I learned in the last five years and does my chart need updating?

Turns out, nothing changed with regard to those five generations. However, I decided to add a little more detail to the chart.

So here’s the before and after…

Original

originallocationchart

New and Improved

Ancestor Birth Places

If you want to create your own, J Paul provides his downloadable Excel file in his blog post Little Thing That Went Viral… #MyColorfulAncestry.