I have been using Personal Ancestry Writer, the free genealogy program by Howard H. Metcalfe, to save the information I gather. It has a wide variety of ways to output the data you enter, including making the standard genealogy forms into html, which quite simplifies things if you want to share your hard work with other people.
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This output is a Lineage, from the earliest ancestor, down to Fiona. Any photos you have added to the Scrapbook feature are also included when you select the html version of the format. Unfortunately the program simply puts the photos in a straight line down the page, so I did tinker with the html the program created to organize the photos into a more suitable layout. |
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The first Lineage was from Fiona's father's father side of her family, a paternal line I suppose. This Lineage traces her father's mother's ancestors. I suppose that makes it a paternal maternal line. More or less. The photos featured on this page are thus of her paternal grandmother's people. |
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An Ahnentafel is a sort of binary genealogical tree. Fiona's Ahnentafel thus begins with her, then her parents, then her parents' parents, and so on. Except I don't happen to have the information from her mother's side of the family, so this is a one-sided Ahnentafel. On the other hand, it does have ALL her paternal ancestors. But no pictures. |
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This version of Fiona's Ahnentafel was saved in an RTF text format, with some added bells and whistles, in the form of including the notes I had added to individual entries, plus an index of all names found in the ancestry. I then opened the RTF text file in the free text editor Bean, an open source project by James Hoover, and exported as html. It did a beautiful job. |
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And here is a kind of Pictorial Family Tree which I created just for fun. I was inspired by a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover I saw one time that was a fanciful family tree for a cute little boy. Come to think of it, the little boy was a redhead too, just like Fiona. |
