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Margaretfinch

Margaretfinch Report 16 Sep 2009 08:35

Where can I download a simple lay out for a family tree please

Margaret

Researching:
Finch Weathersfield Essex. Poole Haverhill Suffolk.GoodchildSouth Ascot BerkshireFry Wilton Wiltshire Goddard Laverstock Wiltshire Grayston Suffolk

Margaretfinch

Margaretfinch Report 16 Sep 2009 13:53

Hi Jonsey thank you for that only I could not make head or tail of it

Margaret

Researching:
Finch Weathersfield Essex. Poole Haverhill Suffolk.GoodchildSouth Ascot BerkshireFry Wilton Wiltshire Goddard Laverstock Wiltshire Grayston Suffolk

Simon

Simon Report 18 Sep 2009 16:04

Hi Margaret,

I use Family Tree Maker (the 2005 version) into which you can open Gedcom files exported from GR. (You Export your entire GR tree to you email addy, then open the email and open the attached Gedcom file into FTM).

You can do several things in FTM that you can't do in GR (such as linking duplicate people where, for example, cousins marry) and one of those is produce 'Descendant' and 'Ancestor' trees in PDF format which you can then print out (onto vast acreages of paper!).

Beware though, of re-importing Gedcoms which you have changed in FTM back into GR as I lost partial date data for some 12,000 records when I did it last year. 'They' are supposed to be sorting the problem but I don't know if they have done so yet.

Hope this helps,

Simon