Category: Family Trees

February 17th, 2011

A Surefire Way to Choose the Right Matting for Your Custom Family Tree Project

Continuing with our blog post series that talk about how to make your own high quality framed family tree chart, we’re going to take some time to discuss a really important step in the process.  The type of backing or matting that you use for your family tree project is absolutely crucial to the overall success of this project.

For those of you that may have missed the previous posts, we’ve previous discussed the types of paper that should be used for a high quality family tree chart along with the type of ink that will not fade over a period of time. If this project is important to you, I’d give those posts a quick read as well.

The 5 Main Reasons for Picking a High Quality Matting

- A nice matting enhances the appearance of your family tree to make it look like a high quality piece of art.

- Properly chosen matting can actually draw the person’s eyes towards the artwork and highlight the family tree itself.

- A high quality mat lets you add your own “flavour” to tree chart art piece.  This personalizes the piece even more.

- High quality matting is much more resilient to the earth’s elements and won’t degrade as much over a period of time.

- The average height of a typical high quality matting is around 1/16th of an inch tick; the height of the matting actually helps to separate your art piece from the glass that will cover it.  Over time, art pieces that come in contact with the glass tend to stick together. This would ruin your family tree template.

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January 19th, 2011

Here’s a Quick Way to Choose Ink for Your Framed Custom Family Tree Artwork

As promised, here is the next step to making your very own custom family tree chart for framing.  My last post went into detail about the type of paper you should choose.  It’s absolutely crucial that you get the paper right!  If you haven’t read that post, do it now.  You have to be able speak “shop” to your printer or the art supplier to make sure you get the right paper that will last for decades.  Today, this post will outline the important components of the right ink and protectant.

Getting back to my analogy of building a house.  Now that you’ve got a good foundation by choosing the best paper for the job, you need to start building the part of the house that defines the space and protects the contents.  The walls.  The walls of your house protect you just like the ink for your family tree protects your research and family history from fading.  And just like the walls of your house, you need the ink to stand up to the elements. The ink is the part of your family tree that people will be looking at all the time.  You don’t want the ink to run or fade.    Pick the right ink and your family tree will last for generations.

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January 18th, 2011

New Years Resolution: More Genealogy Research!

Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday season and I want to wish you all of the best in 2011.

Like some of you, I have made a New Year’s Resolution to do more genealogy research and to go even further back in my ancestors search.  So I just wanted to remind you about the free family tree templates you can download.

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December 6th, 2010

What Everyone Needs to Know About Choosing Paper for Your Family Tree Chart

The first issue that you have to be concerned with when making your own framed custom family tree charts is your paper choice.  You may or may not be aware that there are a plethora of choices out there that you encounter when you want to print a large family tree PDF.  It can be a difficult choice and you have to know what you want before you print it out.  The wrong paper can be a costly error that you want to avoid.

Think of it this way.  When you’re building a house, you need a good strong foundation made from the correct materials so your house is stable and doesn’t collapse or deteriorate. The paper is the foundation of your family tree chart so you must choose your paper carefully.  You don’t want to go to all the trouble of making a custom framed family tree chart only to have it yellow or fade or crack before you’ve had a chance to enjoy it.  For paper selection, your main issue is to select a quality paper that is completely acid-free.  Let me explain:

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December 2nd, 2010

Now You Can Have Your Own Framed Custom Family Tree Charts

I’m absolutely thrilled about the feedback that I’ve received on my new oversized family tree charts that were added to the website a few weeks ago.  As exciting as some of the feedback is, I have also received some e-mails from people that are confused about how to take a PDF from my website and turn it into a work of art, a family tree chart that can exist on your wall fully framed.

For those of you looking for direction with regards to how to go from a PDF download to framed family heirloom, I’ll outline everything you need to know and give you some pointers and suggestions along the way. There are a number of factors that we have to consider before we get to the final product, so this will be a series of posts that will explore how you can make one of the family tree charts on my website a reality as a framed family tree chart within your home.

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November 10th, 2010

New Pages of Extra Large Family Tree Templates Are Online!

Now you can show your lineage in an awesome presentation that spans up to 16ft. Check out my new extra large free family tree templates.  If you’ve ever wanted to display your family history at a family reunion but found it too awkward to lug your files around and show your research on a standard sized family tree, you’ll love these large tree charts.  They come in 8ft and 16ft widths and can be as high as 5.5 ft but the high quality of the PDF allows you to print it out as wide as 45 ft without distortion!

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it with trying to show my genealogy research on rinky-dink charts and pulling out files of this and that to show my family.  And it’s almost laughable when there are three or four people trying to see the same family tree chart and their heads are bumping.  It’s almost like a Laurel and Hardy slapstick comedy act.

These are extra large wall charts have large spaces for names and additional space you can use to enhance your family tree chart.  So no more bumping heads to get a good look!

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August 31st, 2010

3 Tips on How to Print Awesome Large Family Tree Templates on Your Home Computer

A while ago, I announced that there were new free family tree templates available to download on my website.

Since then, I’ve received about ten e-mails from people looking for help on how to print the larger generation templates at home, using their home computer and printer. Issues people are finding when they print out the nine generation family tree template or some of the the circle family tree charts on standard printer paper are: the spaces aren’t large enough to write in the names, and you can’t actually read the names once you’ve written them.

Depending on your situation, there are three options below that can help you if you’re a PC user, an Apple user, or if you want a printing service to print out your family tree template.

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May 27th, 2010

Family Trees are Online Now!

Free family trees available to download for free. No, there’s no catch, just great family tree designs!

Last week I told you a little bit about the Big News at ObituariesHelp.org, the family tree templates project that I’ve been working on. But now, all 18 new family tree pages are ready, with plans to put more online in the next while.

The wait is over, you can start downloading any type of family tree you want right now:

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