We all usually start with ourselves, and work back down the generations - that's the safest way, isn't it? And because we don't make wild guesses, or slide dates and relationships to fit, that's probably why so few of us can get back beyond 1650s, or relate to famous names!
I assume that Annette is a fantastic and diligent researcher, very well-connected family, and with a huge pile of well-researched material, and wants to draw something worth putting on display (on a very large wall?) - but not all those fancy nobility and royal trees are all they're made out to be. Many an ancestor has been slipped from one side of a blanket to another, to clean up a claim!
I drew my far more humble mob all out by hand, in fine line pencil first, then with a fine line pen, two colours only - red for direct, black for the rest - and a ruler - and several very carefully joined large sheets of paper just for the mob I've got, and the very earliest anywhere there is 1580! Interesting large roll to store though! Can't imagine a longer trail back being at all easy.
Andrew Tarr - what do you think are the chances the OP would end up with themselves at the end?
Erato: are you any good at building Arks? It might run in the family. It's rained enough today here that we could do with one, please!