Bart wrote: > Can anyone suggest a program to produce plain old *vanilla* flavoured family > trees i.e. an automated way of producing the standard vertical tree that > until a few years ago was done manually. > I'm not looking for any bells & whistles such as picture clips etc. - just > the names of a couple at the top with a line coming down showing their issue > and so on. > I'm quite willing to add the data manually but would like something that > puts out a decent hardcopy and/or a ppt/pdf file etc. > > TIA > Bart Bart, If this is what you mean by a "standard vertical tree," PAF (free for download) does it and can print to an RTF file which can be read by Word, Wordperfect, and other word processors. Note that I had to kludge this example ... the actual printed or RTF version is considerably cleaner. :-) 1. Abiard LATTIN (b.11 Nov 1773-Newtown,Connecticut;d.23 Sep | 1844-Veteran,Chemung Co.,New York) | sp: Anna BALDWIN (b.1 May 1778-Southbury,Connecticut;m.20 Dec | 1796;d.Abt Apr 1812-Veteran,Chemung Co.,New York) |------2. Ransom LATTIN (b.19 Mar 1797-Southbury,Connecticut;d.14 Feb | 1883-Veteran,Chemung Co.,New York) | sp: Almy C. CRAWFORD (b.13 Oct 1799-Saratoga Co.,New York;m.29 | Jun 1828;d.17 May 1880-Veteran,CC,New York) |-----------3. Daniel Benedict LATTIN (b.4 Jun 1829-Veteran,Chemung | Co.,New York;d.23 Sep 1912-Afton,Dekalb Co.,Illinois) | sp: Sarah E. GRAHAM (m.6 Mar 1856) | sp: Jane EGBERT (b.Abt 1829-New York;m.Abt 1860) | sp: Edith JOHNSON (b.Oct 1855-Canada;m.Abt 1887;d.1934) |-----------3. Mary Wood LATTIN (b.16 Sep 1830-Veteran,Chemung Co.,New | York;d.1922-Elmira,,New York) | sp: Morgan L. EGBERT (m.1878;d.1878) If this isn't it, PAF still may do it, but you will have to be a bit more explicit about the format. Also, I'm sure that Legacy (another free program) does something similar. In fact, pretty much any program should do this "descendancy" format. Doug