Mike175, I do not understand where you could get your measurements for 30 generations, like I said I went back solely on the male side starting with my maternal grandfather, which means, his father and mother then his grandfather and grandmother etc...no sibling or maternal grandparents other than the spouses to the men. I have it all scribbled on a few sheets of notebook paper but would like to have an actual chart to slowly fill in everyone that I can.
I didn't think that asking this question on here would lead to me being criticized about how many thousands of names or how many hundreds of feet the paper would be, in actuality it wouldn't be that long.
If this is how a person is treated on this site then it's not worth joining.
I think you will find most of the replies were thinking you were wanting a chart to cater for more than the line in tail male, such charts do contain hundreds if not thousands of names and run to enormous sizes.
Seeing your requirements I would concur with GrahamH (who has had years of experience producing charts for the public) that the way to go would be to use a couple of genealogy programs such as Brothers Keeper and Treedraw.
Brothers Keeper is in simple terms a database that collects and collates your data which is then exported to Treedraw to print a dropline chart.
The benefit of Treedraw is it allows the user to edit and move the position of the "people" on the chart to make them fit the space available.
Your chart can then be saved in various formats including PDF files which may be printed by most commercial printers.
You can also add to or change details images people on the saved file at will.
Cheers
Guy
