Genealogical researches are based on the data issued graphically from a genealogy which can be received during search. There is a set of various ways of the image of genealogies, the most widespread – in the form of a tree, a so-called family tree. The choice of such image is not accidental: "the tree of life" unites the past, the future and the present, the idea of immortality is embodied in it. Leaves of this tree fall down, but it will continue to live.
Instruction
1. There are several ways to draw a family tree, but whatever way you chose, at first it is necessary to collect necessary data on your genealogy. Get a notebook and write down all information which is known to you about the ancestors. Ask relatives, talk to grandmothers and grandfathers who remember and know much more. Try to learn as much as possible, look at old photos.
2. Choose a type of a family tree – it is ascending and descending. In the first case begin collection of information with the leading person, that is directly with you, and then go on the ascending knees to the father, the grandfather, the great-grandfather and so on. This type of a family tree is usually used when researchers have no data and it is necessary to move from known to the unknown. Therefore it is desirable to choose it.
3. Choose a way of registration of a family tree. Now there are special programs which allow to issue it artly. One of the most popular programs is GenoPro – it is used even by genealogists, doctors, teachers and other researchers in the sphere of genealogy. It is possible to download this program on the website http://www.genopro.com. Simpler in use of programs – the Life Tree, it allows to store multimedia data, has search, sorting of information, issues statistics. The website of this program is http://www.genery.com/ru. Programs give the chance quickly and just to issue a family tree, just entering necessary information into the forms provided for it.
4. It is much more interesting and more fascinating to issue a family tree manually, the things made with own hands are appreciated expensively. Relatives will surely estimate such work. Here too there are several ways. Find in the Internet the suitable picture with a tree which will form the basis of your design work. Prepare photos of relatives in electronic form. Use any graphic program to place photos on a tree in the necessary order. Add an inscription under each photo, mark birth dates and birth places, historical events. Sideways from a tree it is possible to make a timeline to demonstrate development of your sort throughout the history of the country. Allocate the place for rare family photos, a family crest (if is), the certificate of sort history.
5. Other way even more creative. If you are strong in drawing, draw the tree which will be ideal for your family tree. In advance count quantity of branches, branches, tree height. Make at first the draft copy, and then transfer a tree to cardboard or a Whatman paper. Paste photos and issue the same as in the previous point.