Heirloom fan chart
An inked ancestor fan with a drawn tree at its heart and your names signed below.
- Who appears
- Direct ancestors, as a half circle
- Best for
- The most decorative option, when the print is the gift.
- Styles available
- 10 poster styles
An inked ancestor fan with a drawn tree at its heart and your names signed beneath it. The wedge borders are deliberately uneven, the way an engraved plate would be.
How you build one
You do not lay this chart out yourself. You describe your family in ordinary sentences — “my dad is John”, “his parents were Robert and Anne” — and each person is placed as you go. When the family is in, you choose Heirloom fan as the shape and pick a style.
Free to build, no account needed to start.
Other chart shapes
Centered chartEveryone, with each generation centered so the page stays balanced.
PedigreeDirect line only — no siblings, partners or children. Exactly symmetrical.
Family recordGenerations set as columns of type, gathered under braces, with botanical corners.
Classic lineageNames only, in spaced capitals, each family gathered under a curly brace.
Family fanEveryone, swept into a half circle from your oldest known ancestor.
Ancestor fanDirect line only, as a half circle. Best when you know several generations back.