When creating that ancestral chronology, don’t just look at the events in one person’s life. Also include key events in the lives of those close relatives of your ancestor. Births of children and grandchildren may have impacted your ancestor as well as deaths of parents, grandparents, and other close family members. The marriage (or divorce) of a child may have had an impact on your ancestor.
Don’t add births and deaths of fifth cousins with whom your ancestor never interacted and think about the reasonableness of the event somehow making a difference in your ancestor’s life. Adding too many events, particularly ones that your ancestor may given only a pass thought to, may clutter up the chronology to the point of making it useless.
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