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their family tree? If not, what do you use?

This thread is dedicated to Rose :)

I use A4 sheets sellotaped together
but the wallpaper sounds a very good idea.

lol Thank you SRS :)) I only needed a small piece when i started now it will have to be longer and preferably wider .

xx

I have been told of a lady who has hers written on her dining room wall.
I do stick different lines of mine on the wall when I'm working on them..

Me!!!

Its quite effective aswell all round the walls of spare room:}}}}}}}}..have used it for a number of years, can create plenty of margin space for jotting down notes....

I'm just wondering how you organise it on the roll, sorry to sound so thick lol

Do you write landscape or portait?

Do it on as many A4 pages as are necessary then transfer to the wallpaper.


Going to buy a roll tomorrow

Dear Secret Agent Red Squirrel

Hello

I use brown sheets of paper that i got from Woolworths!

For each ancestor, I designed a simple log sheet of dates
and details to fill in.

I can then add when I want.

I also put notes on about historical events of that time
and a little bit about what life was like.

Best wishes to all family researchers.
xx

My wife first used wallpaper for our trees but then she ordered the blank sheets that have 8 or 13 (I think) generations from Ron's web site. He is a member on this site. They roll up in a tube or you can stick them in a frame. Great.
Forgot to say they are cheap.

Gordon,

I forgot about Ron's website, do you have his website address?

Thanks :)

Edit: found it.

www*genealogyprinters*com

But what happens when you move ?

Julie
Strip off the wallpaper and take it with you LOL

Although it depends how good you are at stripping he he

I do mine landscape,,,,once I had a head person of each line,,and worked outwards,,as I get further back on some lines then just add another half widith of paper along the top........

one of mine is,3half foot wide and 5ft long...due to recording events in their life...

I AM SO ORGINISED
ONE LOT ON SCRAPS OF PAPER
THERE,.SOME UNDER TABLE
A HELL OF A LOT
ON TGHE TABLE

I had found some American cousins who planned to come visit us. So out came a left over roll end of wall paper. I mapped out a huge tree with photos. At the family party when they were all here, it was great for everyone to look at, and work out where they all fitted in. Bit to large to keep, so it has been thrown away now and I keep the tree recorded in a smaller version printed out from FTM .

theres nothing like a drawing on wallpaper that costs £30-£40 a roll.......

specially when you've only just put it up and the grand brats come to visit, bringing their crayons!!!

Bob

ps who wants a pair, minus fingers?

its on the wall in front of me.might have to redecorate soon though.**M**.:o)>

Gordon mentioned Ron's website. Ron also prints out your tree if you send him the Gedcom. Take a look all sorts of forms available.

I use the same system as Dizzi.

I do mean to sort out all the bits of paper, and write up the info nice and neat and then file into the ring binders, but I just never seem to find the time....consequently it's only about once a year that i have a sort out, and that's usually because i can't find a very important scrap of paper from the pile on the floor, under the desk, on top of the desk, on top of the filing cabinet etc. and I have to turn the place upside down.
Now, writing it on the wall, that''s a great idea, just don't know how hubby will take to it.

K