Printable "ancestor charts"?

[Ruskie]

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.

[MarieC]

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]

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   .

[MarieC]

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

[Ruskie]

Shall do Marie.

I'm quite amazed that there doesn't seem to be a large enough one available online 

[kooky]

You can always 'blow up' the Lost cousins one from A4 to A3 or even A2 and then the spaces are bigger!
Kooky

[Ruskie]

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 

[maizcl]

Hi Ruskie   

Sorry i can't help you, but i too have been looking for charts that are large enough for about 10 generations.

There must be some out there and as you said they need to have spaces big enough to be able to write in.

Would ge grateful if you find one if you could let me know.

Cheers
Kaye     

[Comosus]

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