Most people looking for a genogram template want one of two things: an empty frame with the right shape already in place, or a finished example they can open and edit into their own. Both are here, and neither is a file you download.
The conventional starting frame is three generations — the person at the centre, their parents, and their grandparents — because three is where intergenerational patterns first become visible. Two generations rarely show a repeat. Four is usually more than anyone can gather accurately in one sitting.
A printable blank has one real drawback worth naming: the notation that makes a genogram useful is the relationship layer, and that layer is exactly the part that changes as you learn more. On paper, a discovered estrangement means redrawing the sheet. Working in the editor, the same change is one click, and the layout re-tidies itself around it.
If you would rather not start from nothing, the library holds finished genograms of families from history and fiction. Opening one gives you a correctly structured diagram to take apart and rebuild — often a faster way to learn the notation than a blank page.
A finished two-generation genogram you can open and edit. People below are rendered from the live diagram.
Open this genogram →