Family Tree Templates & Shajra-e-Nasab Formats
Preserve your heritage with standardized, open-access genealogical templates. Download printable charts for framing or structured digital spreadsheets for generational archiving.
4-Generation Pedigree Chart
High-resolution A4/A3 printable chart styled in luxury navy and gold with authentic Urdu headings. Designed for pen-and-ink family recording, framing, and oral history archives.
Editable Word Shajra Table
Pre-formatted Microsoft Word document with pre-set columns for generation tiers, patrilineal ancestral chains, maternal lineages, and resting place records.
Lineage Data Spreadsheet
Standardized relational CSV spreadsheet. Built for family genealogists organizing hundreds of names with unique record IDs, father IDs, mother IDs, and burial cities.
When Paper Scrolls Reach Their Limit: The Living Digital Canvas
Physical paper templates are wonderful for framing up to four or five generations. However, traditional South Asian and Islamic lineages span 40+ generations and feature complex cousin marriages (*pedigree collapse*), which cannot be rendered on static paper without overlapping lines.
How to Build Your Family Shajra-e-Nasab (شجرہ نسب بنانے کا طریقہ)
Follow this proven three-stage archival methodology to document your family tree with historical rigor and accuracy:
Elder Oral Interviews
Sit down with the oldest living members of your family. Record given names, common nicknames (عرفیت), places of origin, ancestral villages, and where ancestors are buried.
Documentary Verification
Cross-reference oral accounts with primary evidence: NADRA Family Registration Certificates (FRC), handwritten marriage covenants (*Nikahnama*), and District Revenue records (*Bandobast*).
Structured Digitization
Populate our free spreadsheet format above. When your branch connects back to a known ancestral node, contact the archive administration to integrate your lineage into the live cloud tree.