There were other options, and family tree. The base was located the name of the pedigree was drawn up to whom, and his ancestors formed "trunk" and "crown".
Additional information can be transmitted by means of color: the medallions with the names of married women were to portray the purple, girls - in blue, men who have had offspring, - yellow, did not have - in red. Living from dead ancestors distinguished in green.
At the end of the XV-XVI century. the most common form of generalization of genealogical information are tables. As with all genealogies, they divide into ascending and descending. Genealogical tables may trace kinship through the male, female or mixed lines of kinship on both lines. The most widely used in scientific work of the type - a table of top-down relationship in the male line. These include the offspring of both sexes, but occur only on men. Offspring of the same women - representatives kind - do not indicate, limited only by the names of their spouses. This was due to the fact that land ownership and social status, and titles were transferred to the Middle Ages through the male line. Sometimes, as in England, the offspring through the female line was recorded in special books as applications, which can be accessed when needed.
Widely used as mixed table rising kinship, which indicate only the direct ancestors of both the male and the female line. Lateral branches in these tables are not available. Mixed bottom-up tables are convenient to always know the number of ancestors of any person who grows exponentially - 2, 4, 8, and so restoring a pedigree with incomplete data, the researcher will always know where there are gaps in his table.
Finally, it is rarely used table ascending or descending in a straight female kinship lines showing all the clan members of both sexes, occurring only from women. The exception was a medieval Wales, where such a table was the norm. We have already pointed to the revival of interest in such tables in the works of contemporary historians.