| Organizing your family tree can be a very | | | | aren't very good at drawing, there is illustrator |
| challenging and rewarding experience at same | | | | software to help you get started. |
| time. You need to do a lot of research, but once | | | | Use family tree software. All genealogy software |
| you have completed it, you can present your | | | | programs already provide the fundamental |
| chart to your whole family and give everyone the | | | | computer-generated lineage chart tools you need, |
| gift of knowing their lineage. | | | | but you can always download extras to make |
| There are several ways of creating a family tree | | | | your chart even more accurate and unique. Some |
| chart. You can do it yourself manually, use | | | | add-ons provide better charting functions that |
| software or hire professional artists to put | | | | allow you to customize and print your charts in a |
| together your chart for you. Let us discuss each | | | | matter of minutes. |
| method so you can pick one that you like best. | | | | Buying from artists. You can commission the |
| Doing it yourself. This is a good option if you have | | | | services of an artist to create beautiful family |
| a rather small family, because you can easily | | | | tree charts. Remember that you still have to |
| trace back to your ancestors and merge out to | | | | diagram your chart and do all the research and |
| second-degree relatives. This is also great if you | | | | produce all the pictures (either for mounting or as |
| are good with artwork - you can create | | | | reference for the painting or sketches that the |
| something unique for your family. Even if you | | | | artist will make). |