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    1. Re: [GASCREVE] Printing family trees
    2. Cynthia, I just printed one like that out for a family reunion back in June. It was not easy. I was not able to include all the generations. I think a tree including all generations ended up being nearly 100 pages!! I just kept decreasing the number of generations until I ended up with a number of pages that was feasible. I also tried the three different column formats to see which would take up the least number of pages. Also keep in mind when you are looking at the overview that some of the pages might be blank. You might not have to use these pages and can just salvage the paper when the blank page comes out of the printer. One inconvenience I found is that there is a small margin on each page. Therefore, when I taped the pages together, I had to cut the page down so that my lines would match up without a blank space in between. ( I was just being picky. ) I was not very happy with the tree options. There is one instance where the spouse's box would be displayed directly underneath the descendant. Therefore, there would be one long vertical line and it would be hard to tell who was the descendant and who was just a spouse. I had wished I could force it to always print spouses out to the side. Maybe someone else will have some advice for us both, but considering the few options FTM gives you for the chart, you basically just have to play around with it and find the best solution. Good luck! Karen

    08/02/2000 08:41:58