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Ruskie
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Does anyone know of a site that has a decent ancestor chart which I can print out and fill in by hand?
I'm hoping for space for 7 to 10 generations and I don't mind having to join several sheets of A4 together.
I've looked online but haven't managed to find anything suitable.
Thanks a lot.
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MarieC
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Ruskie
I was recently given a site which has quite simple charts which look OK.
It is: http://www.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/genealogy/
What do you think?
MarieC
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Ruskie
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Thanks for the reply Marie and the link - yes, I'm looking for something like their "pedigree Chart", but with more generations  .
I recently printed off one from the LostCousins website, but it's only on A4, and only 5 generations and the ggg grandparent's boxes are so tiny you can barely fit their names on it. I was hoping to be able to add a few details to each person.
I know you can buy large charts for display with space for 10+ generations, but I just want to print out a couple of really simple informal ones, which I think would need to print onto either two or four sheets of paper depending on orientation.
Suppose I could always try to do my own ..... but I don't think I'd have any hair left by the time I'd finished  .
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MarieC
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Yes, I've seen the LostCousins one, Ruskie! Agree that it is a bit limited.
If you find one that you really like, do post on here - I'd be interested in having a look too.
MarieC
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Ruskie
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Shall do Marie.
I'm quite amazed that there doesn't seem to be a large enough one available online
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You can always 'blow up' the Lost cousins one from A4 to A3 or even A2 and then the spaces are bigger! 
Kooky
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Ruskie
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That's a good idea Kooky - I might just have to do that - but I'm still looking for space for a couple more generations
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Unfortunately when you get to 10 generations, you need a lot of room. The number of ancestors increases exponentially... We have 1024 ancestors in the 10th generation. When looking for something to print off and fill in, there needs to be a box for every person possible... so as you can imagine, this is going to be huge! I have seen some which have up to 15 generations, but they get very complex with several rows for just one generation.
I would suggest trying to print trees off with a computer program. I have an old version of FTM, and I am able to print up to 9 generations on the width of 1 A4 sheet. I don't include boxes for those I haven't found (saves tons of room), but the resulting tree is still several sheets of A4 long.
I'm currently trying to make my own tree to print off (inspired by this thread!) - it's only 7 generations but it's already too big to fit on A3...
Andrew
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Ruskie
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Thanks for the thoughts everyone.
I've just spent ages again this morning looking online for something suitable. I'm so angry with myself because last night I found one which looked OK, but do you think I can find it again this morning  .
There are some that you can buy to fill in, and yes, they are huge - I think the 10 generation one looks about 1 x 1.5 metres. The company who sells them, will also print off huge charts for you if you supply them with a gedcom file.
There are also four generation charts which are printable but then you have to add extra charts to it, eg person 1 on this chart is person 16 on chart 2. All too complicated. Oddly enough the best one I found this morning was for horses!, but it wasn't printable.
I want this chart so I can give one each to family members. Something simple to look at without everyone gathering around the computer and scrolling around .
I want the flexibility of being able to write in as little or as much as I wish about a particular person, and you can make your writing smaller if you want to squeeze more in. A chart without boxes may therefore be better (like the one I found last night ).
Printing out trees from the computer, apart from the fact that it'd take me a year to work out how to do it, is less flexible. Although I have everything on computer, I still like to keep my books with notes and roughly drawn trees ... something nice about them, even though I'm the only one who can understand them.
I'm determined to find one and will let you all know how I get on.
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Ruskie
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Good thinking Wendy, but my history only seems to show what I've done since this morning not last night.
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