How Do You Design A Family Tree?
• Decide what information you want to include. Some family trees include only the names of individuals. Others include dates and/or places of birth and death, marriage information, health information and even photographs. The design of your tree will depend on how much information you want to include. • Determine the vertical size of your tree. • Write out a sample box with the information you want to include, using one individual ancestor for your sample. Make several photocopies of the box, then cut them out to use as templates. • Space out the sample box templates you’ve created as though they represented three separate generations. The oldest generation typically goes on the top of a family tree, and subsequent generations line up underneath. This will give you some sense of how much space you want between each generation. • Measure the distance from the top of the sample box template for the first generation to the top of the sample box template for the second generation. • Multip
