Saturday, January 28, 2012

Free Family Tree Chart For Your Family Tree

There is a third great site to find the charts you will need to fill out your family tree. It is at About.com: Genealogy. They offer three different designs for you to choose from. These charts are a wonderful alternative for people who don’t have the best handwriting. From this site you are able to download the chart and fill it out on you computer. From there all you have to do is print it out. Plus this site is also free of charge.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Family Tree Software Charts

  1. This chart allows spaces for family member’s names, the date they were born, who they were married to and the date that they died. It is very easy to use, keeps information organized, and allows the user a straightforward way of filling in the information.
  2. Other family tree charts are more decorative.  The second site offers family trees that you can buy and fill out on your own. These family trees are a little fancier in style and have several different ones to choose from with different options to make them personal.

For more information on websites for this family tree software Go Here.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Family Tree Search Information Needs to Be Accurate

Unlike some other hobby genealogy is a hobby that is rewarding for not only the person who is doing the work but to other family members and generations to come. If someone is to keep up with or complete the information you have started in your family tree search, it is important that you are providing them with the most accurate information as possible.

Having someone else creates this masterpiece for you take the fun out of it. Part of the fun is filling out the names and dates yourself or with your family. There are also sites on the internet where you can find the family tree templates that you can fill out. It is very easy to fill out one of these charts with all of your personal information.

For a list of some of the sites where you can get family tree templates Go Here:

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Do You Want to Display Your Family Tree?




           Perhaps you might want to have your family tree displayed in your home?
You have the choice of paying for a family tree to be professionally done.

Several sites are available where you can give them your photos or the names of the people you would
like on your family tree
and they will charge a fee to create it for you.

This is a nice idea for a gift for someone in your family  so that they could display your family
tree in their home.


                        


Monday, January 9, 2012

Creating Your Family Tree

Is your heart into creating a family tree but, the task might be to overwhelming for you? Maybe the only family trees you have seen look so complicated that they are hard to understand let alone create one. But building a family tree is easy if you are able to follow a format.

After you have collected all of the names and important dates of your relatives, you may not know how to place them neatly in a family tree so that it is organized and easy to read. The best thing to do is to use an example of a family tree to copy.

Some internet sites give examples of family trees so that is easier to put in the information you have collected to make them personal. This will give you an idea of where to put each person’s name and how to descend the line of your ancestors back as far as you can go.

For additional information on family trees:  Check Here

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Why Would You Need an Expanding Folder For Your Family History?


Old pictures and documents will be collected in your family tree search.   You can use a folder to keep these things in.  Or invest in a portable expanding file.   You are able to keep all of your documents separate and organized. Remember that you need to keep track of the people in the photos or which documents belong to whom. So, make sure you always have scrap paper and paperclips on hand. By using paperclips you can write the information about the document or photo and keep them together.

Do you have any questions or comments?  Let me know.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Supplies Needed for Family Tree Search

Although genealogy research does not require a lot of different supplies, it is the supplies that make your hunt for your family history easy and fun to do.

Sometimes trying to create a family tree yourself is tricky. You might want to hand out these documents to family and friends. But it gets hard trying to fit all of the names and information of your relatives. It also gets tricky trying to figure out who you should include. Your great grandfather may have had five brothers and each of his brothers had five children. Should all of this information be included? Templates, forms or charts that you can print out from the internet will solve a lot of these problems for you.

For more assistance Go Here