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Keith Sherwood
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I'm fortunate that my brother is a land surveyor and in his office there is a machine that normally prints out maps/charts on enormous sheets of paper. So he has very kindly put details of our mother's and father's family trees on disc, then printed them out into HUGE trees, which he either rolls into a tube or carefully folds to send through the post to me.
Keith
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earley-bird
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yes thats a very good idea. Most of the copy shops in most towns will print out at least A1 width. Find out where the local Architects go to get their dyelines and acetates printed out. Phone first and ask what file format it needs to be in and whether they prefer your file on a CD or floppy disk. If your lucky they may accept a USB pendrive
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Earley, Holborn London
Bruce, London
Kangeisser London
Lawlor, Widnes Lancashire
Hagan Widnes Lancashire
Whitchurch, Westminster
Cooper, Westminster
All Census Lookups are are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only, I support copyright, a Wife, 2x children a dobie, 3 x cats, a Tawny owl. and several mice if the droppings in the kitchen are anything to go by...............damnlazycats!
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earley-bird
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I am ready for something...but I don't know what!
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Got to say I wouldnt be without my computer program
Willow x
what do you use?
I have provisionally made a custom tree using Correldraw.
Hopefully Family Tree program should arrive soon but I also want to put the tree on genes reunited as well . I'll probably end up re-entering everything 
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Earley, Holborn London
Bruce, London
Kangeisser London
Lawlor, Widnes Lancashire
Hagan Widnes Lancashire
Whitchurch, Westminster
Cooper, Westminster
All Census Lookups are are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only, I support copyright, a Wife, 2x children a dobie, 3 x cats, a Tawny owl. and several mice if the droppings in the kitchen are anything to go by...............damnlazycats!
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Paul E
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I'm using GenesReunited as my primary record but its frustrating having to print all the maternal lines off seperately - and you end up with duplications. And as I've just discovered a ggg grandfather who had 14 children, and two of these had eight or nine apiece, its going to be a nightmare!
Having said that, it was only through GenesReunited that I discovered someone who was researching the same line, so I shouldn;t really complain!
Thought about getting a simple Family Tree PC programme - have seen some for around £10. Does anyone have any experience of these and what the print-outs are like?
I don't think I want to invest in the full Family Tree Maker package.
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celia
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I have had three Family tree disks for years, right from the start i could not get my head round them,still cant. Only a few ago i went back to try again thinking i would put a finished tree on it  but no my mothers sister ended up as her grandmother so i stayed with what a started with what i do is this
Descendent's of (G.G.G.Grandparents)
Married on Date at Place
Children of Jack and Jill Jones
1 2
3
4
Number 1 married Betty Brown on 21 sep 1820
Update 11th Jan 2005 Betty died
Then again children of number one and Betty brown
Doing a tree this way you have all the information in front of you and you can go back and update at anytime. I found it better to update rather than delete and re-enter an entry because it can knock the rest out of line. I have now redesigned another tree by copying and pasting Censuses on them. It looks brilliant .Myself i only put sibling of a G.G.Grandfather and who they married children they had the rest comes later.
Why is this topic on the lighter it aint light work gettin a tree together
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Amy K
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I drew this tree with PowerPoint. The good thing about PowerPoint is that you can get your tree to look exactly how you want it. It takes a lot of time but I think the end result is worth it. The only draw back is you are limited to A4 size, unless you have access to a printer that can print larger sheets.
I saved this as a .jpeg so the quality is not as good as if you viewed it through PowerPoint itself, but you get the idea.
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Paul E
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Hi Amy
I wondered about using Powerpoint - one advantage being that you can create hyperlinks from a name (ie maternal line) through to another page, indefinately (and of course you could hyperlink to images of census pages, photos, other stuff).
Paul
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Amy K
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Paul, that's an excellent idea, and not something I had thought of. I just tend to draw them and print them out for family members, to TRY and get them interested in genealogy a bit. The drawing can't be that good as they are as uninterested as ever!!
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Berlin-Bob
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At the moment I am using Excel to draw up trees, one tree pro A4 page.
The (preview) results are viewable at http://boco.rootschat.net/i-trees.php
It's a lot of work, but as Amy has said about PowerPoint:
... you can get your tree to look exactly how you want it. It takes a lot of time but I think the end result is worth it. ...
the next stage is to "clean up" the background colour, and then I want to add hyperlinks to the names, so that I can jump straight to the biographies. I haven't decided yet how - the PowerPoint idea sounds good, or I may try "drawing" the tables in HTML (Eeeek !!). I also tried converting the excel tables to HTML but that didn't work properly, so I shall keep trying. I'll post here if I find a good soöution, and I I shall continue to monitor this posting in case somebody else does !
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« Last Edit: Wednesday 28 February 07 09:44 GMT (UK) by Berlin-Bob »
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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behindthefrogs
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I do my trees horizontally using Excel, starting with my family top left and keeping the direct line at the top. For each spouse I start a new tree if I want to go beyond the parents.
Printing Landscape using Times New Roman 10 point gives four or five generations on a single sheet of A4. Families of siblings which don't fit onto the top sheet are dropped down onto lower ones.
On two occasions I have had to take up two "generation columns" with families of more than eight surviving children but usually there are sufficient early deaths in large families to make this unnecessary.
David
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Living in Berkshire. Origin Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES CAN BE FOUND IN SURNAME INTERESTS AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Williams, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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KPM
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I have my trees saved on my family tree programme and on Genes Reunited, but I just cant work without my paper trees.
I use an Artists sketchpad A3 size. Each family has a page of its own and as I work on each family I pencil my notes on the tree. Every few months I do have to re-do the tree and include all the recently found info and I'm now on my 5th pad!!! I know it probably seems like hard work but I just couldn't work without it. I can carry the book around with me when I visit relatives, libraries etc . I also get a clear view of the whole family's tree.
Probably not everyone's cup of tea but works great for me
KPM
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