Family Tree

@Demented Said

Shiit,you should be able to do that on your computer without a website or program. If you have Notepad,try it out on there,but just remember to save the changes every time.

There may also be something in Office??.

@Silver_Lining Said

Do you know what? It never even crossed my mind that I could do it like that.

@treebee Said

there are so many sites now that take your cash, I would start with the government sites, like registrations of births and deaths etc and census information.

@sister_of_mercy Said

I think Ancestry is a good one and some of it is free. I used it for a little bit and managed to find someone.

@Silver_Lining Said

Yeah, I don't really fancy paying over the odds when I can get some information for free.





I think I've tried ancestry before and I found it hard to find things because I have a common surname.

It's still more the tree itself that I want to get right, I've had a quick try of what demented suggested and I can see that taking a lot of time to get right (in terms of getting the text to a decent size to fit everything in and it still be legible)

I'm pretty lazy and want something that will ask me questions such as "What is your name", "Do you have siblings?", "What is their name(s)?" etc, and just create the tree for me. If there is such a thing out there.

@treebee Said

I think there are "build a family tree" CD-ROMs which are very cheap, check AMAZON.

@ThePainefulTruth Said

I use Family Tree Maker. It does a lot of things that a program not designed for it can do, like saving pictures, notes, references as well as being able to do research (that's for a fee, but it's much easier and it has access to stuff not o/w on line such as other FTM data) and exchange with other people with Family Tree Maker. Most people who do genealogy have a program, and a large proportion of them have this one. You accumulate a lot of information in a short time and it's hard to get really organized without it. The only thing you can't do is write a synopsis or compendium of what you've got in a narrative form, but you can do that on any word processor. The basic program is only $24.