152 Free Genogram Templates
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Clinical/Therapeutic
10 templates
Anxiety Disorder Family Pattern
A three-generation genogram illustrating the hereditary transmission of anxiety spectrum disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety.
Depression Across Generations
A three-generation genogram tracing major depressive disorder through the maternal line, illustrating patterns of suicide, alcoholism, recurrent depression.
Substance Abuse Family Dynamics
A three-generation genogram depicting multigenerational alcoholism and substance abuse patterns, including codependency dynamics, recovery trajectories.
Eating Disorder Family Pattern
A three-generation genogram depicting the transmission of eating disorders and body image disturbances across a family system.
PTSD and Trauma Transmission
A three-generation genogram illustrating intergenerational trauma transmission from a Vietnam War veteran through domestic violence, complex PTSD.
Bipolar Disorder Family History
A three-generation genogram depicting the hereditary pattern of bipolar spectrum disorders across a family system.
Schizophrenia Hereditary Pattern
A three-generation genogram illustrating the hereditary pattern of schizophrenia spectrum disorders across a family system.
OCD Family Dynamics
A three-generation genogram illustrating the familial clustering of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders including OCD, hoarding, trichotillomania.
ADHD Multi-Generational Pattern
A three-generation genogram illustrating the multigenerational transmission of ADHD, including late-life diagnosis in adults.
Autism Spectrum Family Genogram
A three-generation genogram depicting the presentation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) across a family system, including late diagnosis in adults.
Medical/Hereditary
10 templates
Diabetes Family History Genogram
A three-generation genogram illustrating the clustering of Type 2 diabetes within a family, including comorbid cardiovascular conditions.
Heart Disease Hereditary Pattern
A three-generation genogram demonstrating the hereditary pattern of coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk factors.
Cancer Family History (BRCA)
A three-generation genogram tracing a BRCA1 mutation through a maternal lineage. The maternal grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer at 45 and died at 52.
Alzheimer's & Dementia Family Pattern
A three-generation genogram examining the familial clustering of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
Sickle Cell Disease Inheritance
A three-generation genogram illustrating the autosomal recessive inheritance pattern of sickle cell disease.
Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Pattern
A three-generation genogram depicting the autosomal recessive inheritance pattern of cystic fibrosis. Both parents were unknowing carriers of CFTR mutations.
Hemophilia Inheritance Pattern
A three-generation genogram illustrating the X-linked recessive inheritance pattern of hemophilia A. The maternal grandmother was an obligate carrier.
Huntington's Disease Family
A three-generation genogram illustrating the autosomal dominant inheritance pattern of Huntington's disease. The grandfather was diagnosed at 45 and died at 58.
Breast Cancer Multi-Generational
A three-generation genogram depicting non-BRCA familial breast cancer clustering.
Autoimmune Disease Cluster
A three-generation genogram demonstrating the familial clustering of multiple autoimmune conditions.
Family Structure
14 templates
Blended Step-Family Genogram
A complex blended step-family genogram showing two divorced parents who remarried each other, each bringing children from prior marriages.
Single Parent Family Genogram
A genogram depicting a single mother raising three children after her husband\'s unexpected death.
Three-Generation Household
A multigenerational Chinese-American family genogram illustrating three generations living under one roof.
Adoptive Family Genogram
An adoptive family genogram featuring both biological and adopted children.
Foster Care Family System
A foster care family system genogram showing experienced foster parents with two biological children and three foster children from different backgrounds.
Same-Sex Parents Family Genogram
A same-sex parents family genogram featuring two married mothers raising children conceived through IVF with a known sperm donor and through adoption.
Multi-Divorce Blended Family
A multi-divorce blended family genogram featuring a father married three times with children from each marriage.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
A kinship care genogram showing grandparents who have legal custody of three grandchildren due to their daughter\'s substance abuse.
Only Child Family Pattern
A three-generation genogram illustrating a recurring pattern of only children.
Large Extended Family (8+ Children)
A traditional large Catholic family genogram featuring grandparents who had eight children in a farming community.
Polyamorous Family Genogram
A polyamorous family genogram depicting a consensual non-monogamous triad — two women and one man in a committed polycule — raising children together.
Chosen Family Genogram
A chosen family (or 'found family') genogram depicting a queer person's support network that functions as family.
Co-Parenting Non-Romantic Family Genogram
A co-parenting family genogram depicting non-romantic parenting arrangements including surrogacy, sperm donation, and intentional co-parenting between friends.
Transnational Family Genogram
A transnational family genogram depicting an immigrant family split across three countries — the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.
Emotional/Relational
9 templates
Enmeshed Family System
A three-generation genogram illustrating a classic enmeshed family system with blurred boundaries, fused mother-child relationships, and a peripheral father.
Disengaged/Cutoff Family
A three-generation genogram depicting a family system characterized by emotional cutoffs, estrangements, and patterns of disengagement.
Parentification Pattern
A three-generation genogram illustrating the parentification of the eldest daughter in a single-mother household following divorce.
Domestic Violence Cycle
A three-generation genogram depicting the intergenerational transmission of domestic violence.
Emotional Triangulation
A three-generation genogram illustrating the classic Bowen family systems concept of emotional triangulation.
Codependency Family Pattern
A three-generation genogram illustrating the Wegscheider-Cruse model of codependency family roles organized around an alcoholic father.
Family Secrets and Hidden Relationships
A three-generation genogram revealing family secrets and hidden relationships that create invisible barriers within the family system.
Grief and Loss Pattern
A three-generation genogram illustrating the impact of multiple losses on a family system.
Emotional Cutoff and Reconciliation
A 3-generation genogram mapping patterns of emotional cutoff and attempted reconciliation across a family system.
Famous/Historical
42 templates
British Royal Family (Modern)
A three-generation genogram of the modern British Royal Family centered on Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Kennedy Family Genogram
A three-generation genogram of the Kennedy political dynasty of the United States. Centers on patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Darwin-Wedgwood Family
A three-generation genogram of the intermarried Darwin and Wedgwood families.
Hemingway Family Genogram
A three-generation genogram of the Hemingway family illustrating the tragic pattern of suicide, depression.
Bach Musical Dynasty
A three-generation genogram of the Bach musical dynasty, centered on Johann Sebastian Bach.
Curie Scientific Family
A three-generation genogram of the Curie scientific family, the most decorated scientific family in history.
Gandhi Family Genogram
A three-generation genogram of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty of India, the most powerful political family in Indian democracy.
Rothschild Banking Family
A three-generation genogram of the Rothschild banking dynasty, founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild in the Frankfurt ghetto during the late 18th century.
Medici Family Genogram
A three-generation genogram of the Medici family of Florence, one of the most powerful and influential dynasties in European history.
Founding Fathers Family Connections
A three-generation genogram centered on the Adams family, America\'s first political dynasty, with connections to other founding families.
Freud Family Genogram
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was born into a family structure that would have fascinated any family therapist.
Darwin-Wedgwood Family Genogram
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) married his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1839.
Kennedy Family Genogram
The Kennedy family is perhaps the most-studied family in American genogram literature. Patrick Joseph Kennedy immigrated from Ireland during the Famine.
Queen Victoria's Family Genogram
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) is the most famous case study in medical genetics and a natural fit for the medical genogram.
Brontë Family Genogram
The Brontës illustrate what happens when catastrophic loss compresses a sibling system into an enmeshed creative unit.
Abraham Lincoln Genogram
Abraham Lincoln's life is a case study in how serial loss shapes a person — and how resilience can emerge despite overwhelming grief.
Marie Curie Genogram
Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was born in Warsaw under Russian Imperial occupation.
Henry VIII & His Six Wives Genogram
Henry VIII (1491–1547) of England provides the ultimate case study in serial marriage and the intersection of family dynamics with institutional power.
Bach Family Genogram
The Bach family of Thuringia is the most remarkable multigenerational occupational dynasty in Western cultural history.
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Genogram
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) is a genogram in paint.
Tolstoy Family Genogram
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) and his wife Sophia Behrs married in 1862. She was 18; he was 34.
Hemingway Family Genogram
The Hemingway family presents one of the most stark multigenerational suicide patterns in public record. Ernest Hemingway's father, Dr.
Romanov Dynasty Genogram
A genogram of the last Russian Imperial Romanov family, centered on Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
Habsburg Dynasty Genogram
A genogram of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty illustrating the extreme consanguinity (inbreeding) that led to the dynasty's extinction.
Julio-Claudian Dynasty Genogram
A genogram of the Julio-Claudian dynasty — the first imperial family of Rome, spanning from Augustus (27 BC) to Nero (68 AD).
Ptolemaic Dynasty & Cleopatra Genogram
A genogram of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt centered on Cleopatra VII — the last active pharaoh.
Borgia Family Genogram
A genogram of the infamous Borgia family of Renaissance Italy, centered on Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) and his notorious children Cesare and Lucrezia.
Roosevelt Family Genogram
A genogram of the Roosevelt family — America's most remarkable political dynasty, which produced two presidents (Theodore and Franklin D.
Adams Presidential Dynasty Genogram
A genogram of the Adams family — America's first political dynasty, producing two presidents (John Adams and John Quincy Adams), diplomats, historians.
Bush Political Dynasty Genogram
A genogram of the Bush political dynasty spanning four generations — from Senator Prescott Bush through Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W.
Churchill Family Genogram
A genogram of the Churchill family centered on Winston Churchill — Britain's wartime prime minister.
Nehru-Gandhi Political Dynasty Genogram
A genogram of India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty — the family that has dominated Indian politics since independence in 1947.
Elvis Presley Family Genogram
A genogram of the Presley family centered on Elvis Presley — the King of Rock and Roll.
Princess Diana Spencer Family Genogram
A genogram of the Spencer family centered on Princess Diana, tracing her aristocratic lineage, her parents' bitter divorce and custody battle.
Vanderbilt Dynasty Genogram
A genogram of the Vanderbilt family — once the richest family in America, illustrating the classic 'shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations' pattern.
Mitford Sisters Family Genogram
A genogram of the Mitford family.
Chaplin-O'Neill Family Genogram
A genogram of the Chaplin family — centered on Charlie Chaplin, the legendary silent film star who married four times and fathered 11 children.
Coppola Film Dynasty Genogram
A genogram of the Coppola-Cage-Shire film dynasty — one of Hollywood's most prolific creative families spanning three generations.
Plantagenet Wars of the Roses Genogram
A genogram of the Plantagenet dynasty during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487).
Jane Austen Family Genogram
A genogram of the Austen family — the large, close-knit Georgian family that produced one of the greatest novelists in the English language.
Wagner-Liszt Musical Dynasty Genogram
A genogram of the Wagner-Liszt musical dynasty — connecting two of the 19th century's greatest composers through scandal, adultery, and artistic genius.
Boleyn Family Genogram
A genogram of the Boleyn family — the ambitious Tudor-era family that wagered everything on placing their daughters in Henry VIII's orbit.
Famous/Modern
24 templates
Barack Obama Genogram
Barack Hussein Obama II (b. 1961) represents one of the most visible examples of the absent father pattern in modern public life.
Oprah Winfrey Genogram
Oprah Gail Winfrey (b. 1954) was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to Vernita Lee, a housemaid, and Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner turned barber.
LeBron James Genogram
LeBron Raymone James (b. 1984) grew up in Akron, Ohio, in conditions of extreme instability.
Trevor Noah Genogram
Trevor Noah (b. 1984) was, as the title of his memoir puts it, \"Born a Crime.\" Under South Africa's apartheid regime, his very existence was illegal.
Simone Biles Genogram
Simone Arianne Biles (b. 1997) is the most decorated gymnast in history, but her origin story reads like a clinical case study in kinship care and resilience.
Kardashian-Jenner Family Genogram
The Kardashian-Jenner family is arguably the most publicly documented blended family system in modern history. At its core is Kristen \"Kris\" Houghton (b.
Prince Harry Genogram
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (b. 1984), was born into a family where private pain has played out on the world stage for generations.
Serena & Venus Williams Genogram
The Williams tennis dynasty was designed — literally planned on paper — by Richard Williams (b. 1942), a self-taught tennis coach from Shreveport, Louisiana.
Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell Genogram
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (b. 2001) and her brother Finneas Baird O'Connell (b.
Manning Family Genogram
The Manning family is a three-generation football dynasty whose genogram reads like a case study in multigenerational occupational repetition.
Jay-Z & Beyonce Genogram
Shawn Corey Carter, known as Jay-Z (b. 1969), grew up in the Marcy Houses, a public housing project in Brooklyn, New York.
Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith Genogram
Willard Carroll Smith II (b. 1968, Philadelphia) grew up in a household marked by domestic violence. His father, Willard Carroll Smith Sr.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Genogram
John Winston Lennon (b. 1940, Liverpool) was the product of a family system defined by abandonment.
Demi Lovato Genogram
Demetria Devonne Lovato (b. 1992, Albuquerque, New Mexico) grew up in a family where addiction and mental illness cast long shadows across generations.
Amy Winehouse Genogram
Amy Jade Winehouse (b. 14 September 1983, London -- d. 23 July 2011, London) grew up in a North London Jewish family steeped in jazz and music.
Robert Downey Jr. Genogram
Robert John Downey Jr. (b.
Drew Barrymore Genogram
Drew Blythe Barrymore (b. 22 February 1975, Los Angeles) is the heir to the longest-running acting dynasty in American history.
Malala Yousafzai Genogram
Malala Yousafzai (b. 12 July 1997, Mingora, Pakistan) was not a lone heroine.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Genogram
Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez (b. 6 March 1927, Aracataca, Colombia -- d.
Freddie Mercury Genogram
Farrokh Bulsara -- later Freddie Mercury (b. 5 September 1946, Stone Town, Zanzibar -- d.
Shakira Genogram
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (b. 2 February 1977, Barranquilla, Colombia) carries a family history that spans continents and cultures.
Elliot Page Genogram
Elliot Page (b. 21 February 1987, Halifax, Nova Scotia) grew up as the only child of Dennis Page, a graphic designer, and Martha Philpotts, a teacher.
Famous/Contemporary
24 templates
Anderson Cooper Genogram
Anderson Cooper's family spans one of the greatest American fortunes and one of the most painful private tragedies in media history.
Laverne Cox Genogram
Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972, in Mobile, Alabama) and her identical twin brother, M Lamar (born Reginald Lamar Cox).
Pete Buttigieg & Chasten Buttigieg Genogram
Pete Buttigieg's family genogram maps the convergence of immigration, academic life, political ambition.
Sandra Bullock Genogram
Sandra Bullock's family genogram spans two continents and illustrates how family is built through choice as much as biology.
Robin Williams Genogram
Robin Williams's family genogram reveals the hidden architecture beneath one of comedy's most luminous careers.
Angelina Jolie Genogram
Angelina Jolie's family genogram is a masterclass in how medical history, emotional cutoffs, and creative legacy intertwine across generations.
Pete Davidson Genogram
Pete Davidson's family genogram centers on a single catastrophic event that fractured everything: September 11, 2001.
Adele Genogram
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born May 5, 1988, in Tottenham, north London) was raised in a landscape defined by absence.
Keanu Reeves Genogram
Keanu Reeves's life reads like a catalog of losses that would break most people. His father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr.
Nelson Mandela Genogram
Nelson Mandela's family genogram is inseparable from the history of South Africa itself.
Jackson Family Genogram
The Jackson family is perhaps the most extreme example in modern culture of how extraordinary talent.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Genogram
Dwayne Johnson's family genogram reads like a case study in multigenerational occupational transmission -- three consecutive generations of professional.
Marley Family Genogram
The Marley family genogram reveals one of music's most complex blended family structures, rooted in a cross-racial union in colonial Jamaica.
Virginia Woolf Genogram
The Stephen family genogram is a study in blended family complexity, early loss, and the relationship between trauma and creativity. Sir Leslie Stephen (b.
Muhammad Ali Genogram
Muhammad Ali's genogram illustrates how religious conversion and identity transformation ripple through an entire family system across generations.
Anne Frank Genogram
The Frank family genogram is a devastating illustration of a family destroyed by persecution, with only one member surviving to carry the memory forward.
Harriet Tubman Genogram
Harriet Tubman's genogram powerfully illustrates the systematic destruction of family bonds under American slavery.
Naomi Osaka Genogram
Naomi Osaka's family genogram maps the intersections of Haitian, Japanese, and American cultures across two generations.
Greta Thunberg Genogram
The Thunberg-Ernman family genogram offers a remarkable case study of a family system that reorganized itself around a child's moral conviction.
Rihanna Genogram
Rihanna's family genogram traces a pattern of resilience emerging from a childhood defined by paternal addiction, domestic conflict.
Chadwick Boseman Genogram
Chadwick Boseman's family genogram is defined by a central paradox.
Meghan Markle's Family Genogram
The Markle-Ragland family genogram is a contemporary case study in family cutoff, half-sibling conflict.
Taylor Swift Genogram
The Swift family genogram reveals a family system that reorganized itself around a child's extraordinary talent.
Curry Family Genogram
The Curry family genogram maps a two-generation professional basketball dynasty complicated by a high-profile parental divorce.
Cultural
6 templates
African American Multi-Generational Family
A three-generation African American family genogram tracing roots from the rural South through the Great Migration to Chicago.
Latino/Hispanic Immigration Family
A three-generation Mexican-American family genogram illustrating the immigration experience across the U.S.-Mexico border.
East Asian Family (Filial Piety)
A three-generation Chinese-American family genogram illustrating the dynamics of filial piety (xiào), Confucian family values.
Middle Eastern Extended Family
A three-generation Lebanese-American family genogram illustrating a large extended family with strong patriarchal structure, family business involvement.
Indigenous Family System
A three-generation Navajo (Diné) family genogram illustrating the extended kinship network, matrilineal clan system.
South Asian Joint Family
A three-generation Indian joint family (Hindu Undivided Family) genogram illustrating the traditional system of multiple generations.
Academic/Teaching
7 templates
Bowen Family Systems Theory Example
A teaching genogram designed to illustrate Murray Bowen\'s eight interlocking concepts of family systems theory: differentiation of self, triangles.
Structural Family Therapy Example (Minuchin)
A teaching genogram illustrating Salvador Minuchin\'s structural family therapy concepts: enmeshed and disengaged subsystems, cross-generational coalitions.
Basic 3-Generation Template
A clean, simple three-generation genogram template designed for teaching basic genogram construction.
Nuclear Family Symbols Guide
A comprehensive teaching genogram demonstrating all standard genogram person symbols and connection types.
Relationship Lines Reference
A comprehensive teaching genogram focused on demonstrating all emotional relationship line types used in genogram notation.
Medical Genogram Tutorial
A teaching genogram demonstrating how to document and visualize medical conditions across a family using modern medical categories with color-coding.
Clinical Supervision Countertransference
A therapy trainee's personal genogram created during clinical supervision to explore countertransference patterns.
Specialty
7 templates
Military Family (Deployment/PTSD)
A multi-generational military family genogram illustrating the cumulative effects of combat deployment across three generations: Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Addiction Recovery Family
A family genogram illustrating multiple generations of addiction and recovery, showing the full spectrum from active addiction to long-term sobriety.
Genetic Counseling Genogram
A genetic counseling genogram for a couple seeking pre-conception genetic counseling.
Community Support Network Genogram
A community genogram mapping a Guatemalan immigrant family's connections to community resources including ESL programs, a local church, community health center.
Pastoral Family Faith Patterns
A 3-generation genogram of a Korean-American pastoral family exploring how faith traditions, church leadership roles.
Elder Care Caregiving Dynamics
A 3-generation Chinese-American family genogram centered on an 82-year-old grandmother with early Alzheimer's disease.
Military Veteran Transition Family
A genogram of a 3-generation military family focused on the transition from active duty to civilian life.
Clinical/Fictional
5 templates
Okafor Family Genogram
Adaeze Okafor, 16, is brought to therapy by her parents, Chukwu (50) and Ngozi (47), for \"defiant behavior.
Brennan-Mitchell Family Genogram
Sarah Brennan (38) and David Mitchell (42) present for couple therapy, reporting constant conflict about parenting. They have been married for three years.
Kim-Alvarez Family Genogram
Maya Kim (35) and Elena Alvarez (33) present for family therapy.
Washington Family Genogram
Marcus Washington (28) enters treatment for alcohol use disorder after a DUI arrest. He is court-mandated to treatment. Marcus lives alone.
Fischer-Tanaka Family Genogram
Emma Fischer-Tanaka (45) presents with severe anxiety, insomnia, and a sense of dread that began abruptly six months ago. She cannot identify a trigger.
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Do these templates use standard genogram symbols?
Every template follows the McGoldrick, Gerson, and Petry standard for genogram notation. Symbols include squares for males, circles for females, structural relationship lines, emotional relationship overlays, and medical condition markers in the four-quadrant system.
Can I use these templates for therapy or social work?
Absolutely. The Clinical/Therapeutic and Medical/Hereditary templates are designed specifically for clinical use. They include emotional relationship overlays, medical condition tracking, and multi-generational patterns that therapists and social workers need for assessments and case documentation.
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