A fan chart is a way to look at your family history that allows you to see where research opportunities are. The closer those research opportunities are to you, the more apparent they become.
BEHOLD THE FAN CHART! ALL MUST QUAKE IN MUTED REVERENCE BEFORE THE MIGHTY CHART...sorry I got carried away.
If you picture the fan chart as being a baseball diamond. You are standing at home plate, your father's family is along the 3rd base line, your father's mother's family is in left-center field, your mother's father's family is in right-center field, and your mother's mother's line is along the first base line.
So you can see from the image above, there is some gaps, or blank areas where there is no data present. This is a beginning spot to do research.
To create a fan chart you can go to createfan.com in addition, you need to have a familysearch.org account with user data in it in order to pull something up.
So check it out and fan the flames of family history in your life!
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