Reading list: Cradle to Grave Profiles (C2G)
Over the years, I found it necessary to organize my notes concerning individuals into a chronological format beginning with their birth date and various events all through their lives accumulating with their death and burial locations. As I formulated this research, I labeled my efforts aptly named the Cradle to Grave Profiles (C2G).

These profiles have become famous to family history researches due to their detailed documented facts containing material from rare and hard to find resources. These mini-biographies present all the known research material available to the author concerning that individual at the time of their creation.

Using this style of recording data concerning our ancestor's life, allows the researcher to insert, move, delete, change and follow their subject's life events without losing track of their timeline. Another advantage of using this type of documentation, helps the researcher at a glance, to focus on the locale and time period where additional repositories containing information concerning their subject may be located.

Events such as political, historical and environmental are illustrated as well as legal documents, newspapers and historical records to acclimate the reader during the time frame of that ancestor’s lifetime. Even though this series utilizes the following documents, these publications do not contain the actual copy of maps, legal documents and pictures concerning the subject’s life. The more comprehensive publications, i.e., The Pratt Chronicles… enhances these mini-biographies with actual copies of the documents pertaining to that individual’s life.

Family vital information of all known spouses and children are included as it pertains to the subject’s timeline. What makes these reports so useful to the family history researcher is the documented evidence chronologically presented with verified proof of these events during the life of the subject prevents the reader from asking, "Where did they get that information?

Creating a Cradle to Grave (C2G) Profile is the first step in formatting a biography and is the foundation for writing a book on the life of your subject.

Be mindful, over the last 40 years of family history research I have created thousands of C2G Profiles of which only a few are listed here. If you do not see someone you are interested in, email me at floydpratt59@gmail.com and I will check my 50,000 name database and will post what I have on your ancestor.