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Title: Printing beautiful ancestor trees?
Post by: bugbear on Tuesday 07 January 14 10:31 GMT (UK)
I am having a wonderful time researching family history, and have found 750 people related to my SO.

Further, I have found extensive biographical data on some of them. This hobby is FUN!  :)

Sadly, most of SO's living relatives just want to see "The Family Tree", by which they mean the doubly-forking tree of direct ancestors.

Nothing more, which is like the tree's that were shown on the most recent series of WDYTYA.

Can anyone recommend software that generates such things (the prettier the better, archaic fonts etc), ideally including images of the people if available?

 BugBear
Title: Re: Printing beautiful ancestor trees?
Post by: MerylBartho on Sunday 12 January 14 13:01 GMT (UK)
Hi bugbear - I'm afraid i don't have quick and it is only part of the tree, but I love the ones I have created in Photoshop - they will become pages in the digital scrapbook I am creating of our family history

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1378548_10151750948300994_957888900_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/1384321_10151752770040994_692859136_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Printing beautiful ancestor trees?
Post by: silvery on Sunday 12 January 14 13:06 GMT (UK)
This is the company who do WDYTYA

http://www.genealogyprinters.com/

Very reasonable prices.   

Lovely work, Meryl.   
Title: Re: Printing beautiful ancestor trees?
Post by: bugbear on Friday 11 April 14 14:00 BST (UK)
I made a perl script to handle Gramps data (I use gramps) and produces DOT
format files to drive Graphviz.

http://www.graphviz.org/

The software is made to my personal preference; in particular the plot
is has a vertical date axis, so that all boxes at the same height are the same date
(unlike normal genealogical tree which seem more driven by generation counts).

I also use a separate (dated) box for weddings.

Here's is my SO's family tree, albeit with the names and location removed.

My software also can also attach a "gallery" shots to persons I cannot
easily anonomise this for publication.

Comments and tips welcomed.

 BugBear
Title: Re: Printing beautiful ancestor trees?
Post by: silvery on Friday 11 April 14 14:36 BST (UK)
Seems quite complex.   (What is an SO?)
Title: Re: Printing beautiful ancestor trees?
Post by: DebPat on Friday 11 April 14 15:00 BST (UK)
Significant Other would be my guess :P
Title: Re: Printing beautiful ancestor trees?
Post by: silvery on Friday 11 April 14 15:53 BST (UK)
Ah yes, seems very likely.