#FAMILY TREE MICROSOFT WORD HOW TO#
My question: does anyone think I should go for alternative 2? If so, do you already have positive experience from working through that automation process (for a family tree or something sufficiently similar) with Visio? Or do you have advice on how to go about doing it? What database format is best to use? I would prefer to just use an excel/calc sheet as database, if that is possible in this case. Maybe less if needed to make it more manageable and printable. The tree will all in all include 50-100 individuals. The manual work in Visio would only/mostly consist in polishing the looks (more around boxes to make the tree fit better and look better, add some special, one of a kind relations, add colors, and so on) And then, somehow, autogenerate the visio family tree from it. Convert the data into some database (simple like an excel or calc sheet or perhaps some complex application). Make the tree manually in Visio: make some basic, standard shapes for the boxes, copy a lot of them onto the drawing board and then copy and paste in data from my notes to each shape and draw relation lines.Ģ. I have two alternative ways to reach that goal:ġ. In general, I want the standard family tree looks and contents. The most recent generation should be at the bottom and each preceding generation should be "stacked" on top so to say. The boxes should be linked by lines that mark parent/child relations.
I want to go from there to a nice family tree image in Microsoft Visio.Įach person should have his/her own box with some recurring details (name, year born/deceased, age, a miniphoto if available, and some other details). But there are some irregularities and the data is not yet in a "machine readable" database format. So far I have it all in a plain textfile, well ordered for a human reader (I use FM FMF FMFF and so on, and some common abbreviations). I have mapped some of my family's history.
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