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Printing a tree (to give to a computerless mother!)

  • 24-09-2016 6:31pm
    #1
    L1011
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    My mother has asked for a family tree for her 65th birthday. I have all the data (stored in Ancestry because thats where I started off and I haven't bothered changing it)

    What would be the best way of giving her a nice printed family tree? Booklet form probably, although a A1/A0 rollup might work too.

    It is slightly complicated to draw by her grandfather's three marriages, two to first cousins so hand-drawing is out for that reason as well as my dyspraxia :pac:


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  • #2
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    I agree - forget the A1 idea. I’ve found the intermarriage of relatives even correctly drawn is visually complicated and often confusing to the extent of being impossible for a ‘lay’ person to understand. I did a tree for a local history project in which the main person was a cousin, father-in-law and uncle of his daughter’s second husband. Her first husband also was closely related to both her family and to the family of the second groom. It did not 'work' visually.

    I’m using FamilyTreeMaker which is on the Ancestry platform, so it should be +/- the same. IMO it would be best to prepare a ‘Pedigree Chart’, starting with your mother and working back.

    My FTM has a ‘PUBLISH’ tab – I’d guess Ancestry has the same? Click on that, then on ‘CHARTS’ and then on ‘PEDIGREE CHART’. When that opens there is an option to set the number of generations, so you could include all or limit it. The first page covers 4 generations (1,2,4,8) and on the right margin each of the eight is followed by a number representing the page to turn to (pages 2 through 9). If you have more than eight generations, pages 2,3, etc will have the same format.

    Along with that I’d include an Ahnentafel Report – it shows an ancestor-ordered format starting with the individual and working back – it will pick up all the ‘person notes’ you have for each of the individuals and their children. Like above, click on PUBLISH, then on GENEALOGY REPORTS and set the number of generations you want.

    Put each page in a plastic envelope and put the lot in a nice ring binder. It’s a lovely present to give/receive.


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