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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: Lizrr on Wednesday 28 December 05 10:15 GMT (UK)
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I wonder what is the best way to save my family tree online to make it easy to print out for making up copies to pass out to my family. The tree looks good but getting it looking good and all in place printed is more difficult. :-\
Any help will be great thats if you can understand what i mean. LOL Liz
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Hi Liz,
Both printing family trees & displaying them online is a problem I and many others have faced. Firstly, before I attempted a website I produced a couple of “books” to give out to the family. I use Family Tree Maker software which produces good family trees, but after a few generations they stretch to several pages.
It is possible to reduce font size to get more onto a page, but then you lose out on quality of presentation.
In my first publication I produced many 2 & 3 generation trees each on a single page, with each tree I included a page of narrative helping the reader to follow through from one tree to the next.
Then I bought a new printer that prints full page A3 size, this allowed me to produce much bigger trees in my next publication, these were obviously more meaningful but you can imagine the book was getting a bit big to handle.
Now I have set up a website I have produced some trees in .pdf format, which my software can do quite easily. These trees for each branch of the family can be accessed by anybody looking at the website and viewed, even magnified if necessary. In theory they can be printed out but again with the difficulties of size.
Not your ideal answer but not a simple problem to solve, I hope it helps. I will be watching for other answers with interest for any tips that could help me too.
terry
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Wow Terry thanks for you quick reply your ideas and tips are very good.Family Tree maker i will look at this Software. I can see you have been busy so i best get started on mine. TY Liz
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Hi Liz,
Welcome to RootsChat :)
This is a theme that crops up again and again, and there is no one answer to it. It tends to include how to present your complete family history, not just the tree, and websites, and much more.
Check out these topics too, for more ideas.
(There are more, but I can't remember where - I'll post them here if I find them)
Common Room / Presentation (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,12461.0.html)
Common Room / Publishing One's Own Family History - any advice? (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,44850.0.html)
Good luck,
Bob
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Liz
Bob is too modest to point out that his site has tackled the thorny problem of producing something for the web while having a format which is easily printable for the non-e-generation!
Have a look at his site (when the rootschat.net server is back up - it's down at the moment). Just click the earth (WWW) symbol in his profile. He's also got examples of trees generated from different programs.
But also read the other threads he has identified.
Good luck
JULIAN
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There are a few more tips and experiences here:
Topic: Genealogy software experiences
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,53020.0.html
... and in this one:
Topic: drawing up family tree on paper??
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,24433.0.html
The references to Powerpoint are interesting, as you can then export it to HTML and upload it to a website !
(Sorry Liz, I'm not trying to overwhelm you, but it is a recurring theme, so I'm just collecting a few topics here for everybody)
Bob
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Thanks everyone you are all much more advanced than me
but i have started to read all the posts. There is lots to take in but all sounds great and i will do my best to carry out the task .
So i will start slowly and try to learn more. Thanks you have all been great.All the links are invaluable and i will spend a happy afternoon trying to take it all in. I now have something to fall back on and keep me on the right track.
Liz
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Hi Liz,
take your time, as this isn't a "quickie" task :)
"Advanced" is always a relative term, so let us know how you're doing ... we can all benefit from sharing
Bob
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Bob i will take my time don't worry i have lots of data about my family all in a pile . On line i have been helped by lots of kind folk who helped me find a lot of my kith & Kin. As i was taught all i know by my 11 year old Grandson ;Di have got better but still some of the more technical side baffles me.Still i enjoy it and i am amazed at how excited i get when i find relatives. I do love this site and all the great people on it.
Happy New year when i comes
I will be back to pick your brains again i have no doubt
Liz
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Liz, Are you the one who posted the family tree called Liz's Kith & Kin? It has a lot of my rellies in it (Walkers and Prettys).
Kathy
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Kathy sorry it must be another Liz ,no Walkers or Pretties in my tree. Hope you find her. Liz :)