manrich63

Robin......that chart is absolutely gorgeous in my opinion! Thank you very much for sharing absolutely. This is so not the picture i had in my head - and i now have changed my mind to create the same as your example shows. I have already created seperate legs each in their own seperate colors.- not yet printed. I also have 3 very large sheets of cardstock for the wall (found unexpectantly by the grandaughter in my family history / arts and crafts room) and shall cut the name squares out and assemble these on the card, I did enlarge the text also which I am much happier with. I now feel thanks to all your help each of you that finally after such a long time messing around i have an end to focus on. Have a great weekend all... Mandy

Thank you for all your replies... Virgina: I was going to do black and white but i think the idea of color will make it easier for others to understand what they are looking at - me too at a glance.I have a colored printer thankfully. Karla i think that sounds like a great idea with seperate charts - and you confirmed Virginias same idea. RobinL nice to see a neighbour....I shall be in touch soon. And you also mention the seperate charts. I shall print your replies so i can digest all your replies then have a good think before i rush into any more printing....thanks heaps for your thoughts and ideas - i certainly will let you know how it goes. Definitely food for thought Mandy

After weeks of trying i decided to bite the bullet and ask for help. I have wasted so much ink and paper and time. My chart is based on my Great Grandfather (George Heinrich Ludwig Richter )who has 19 siblings. Names are sometimes long with German ancestry. I have 8 generations with a couple of names for most recent generation (9th generation). TMG v7 I use tells me that I have 674 names so far. Doesnt sound like many at this point - it is the large generation that causes difficulties causing the width. I have 13 working legs from those siblings. ( Due to deaths/non marriages of the remaining). At this point I have all 20 siblings going across my wall measuring 73 inches across total.(only like 6 inches remain on the wall width.) I have George and his siblings plus their children ( listed downwards with their spouses to their immediate right). I have Georges Parents above also going across ways and also Georges Grandparents names just above and on the left of his father. In total at this stage i have put 4 generations on the wall and it measures 31 inches top to bottom. I dont really want it much larger than this top to bottom. Side to side across ways I have around 1 inch seperating each married couple / or single if unmarried. In fact i have 1 inch seperating names top to bottom.I was going to draw a box around each group to differentiate each child and their and their descendents. And lines from the parents to each child group. I have been printing the names as descendent box charts. Then i cut each box from the paper and then assemble with doublesided tape to 2 large sized papers side by side. I now want to add the next generations for each of Georges children (and also the other legs) downwards but if i do that then i shall have anyone on their knees to try and read the text....not good for my Dad whom is 88 nor his remaining sister. Text is Names Bold Tahoma 10 B Data Lines Regular Tahoma 6 Surnames in Caps (Thinking of other people trying to read) - eventually want to use this at a family reunion. Boxes 160 pixels wide No frame nor shadow Box border is 3 pixels Box contents are Birth Group Abbr date " " PlacePrep Place Death Group Abbr date " " PlacePrep Place Surety no threshhold ( though I dont understand what that is) Allow word wrap Places ticked are City/town County/Parish State/ Province Country I just want the people on a white background nothing fancy - but I do want to add names as i come across them. I cannot at this point afford to pay for a chart to be done. Besides i want a more complete chart to print when i do. I think at this point i have overgoogled and researched doing this for a handful of weeks now that my brain is overcooked. Georges ancesters are based in Germany otherwise all the rest (George, his siblings, and all their descendents) at this stage are based in South Australia?Western Australia. I just want to fit all generations of all those siblings on the wall. Although i am thinking to remove Georges descendents (because it is particularly my leg) and place that one alone on another wall opposite (measuring 32 inches across). If i move a freestanding cupboard (these walls are in my passageway) then i shall have more space ( 80 inches across there). And i shall continue to try to find any ancesters in Germany. Hopefully the post is not too long....thanks in advance for any ideas and have a great day