Genealogy Resources: DIY Family Tree Charts and Templates!

DIY Family Tree Charts and Templates!

Genealogy Resources: DIY Family Tree Charts and Templates! ​

While organizing my personal family history and business digital file folders last week, mentioned in Help, I Can’t Find My Family History/Genealogy Stuff!, I came across some of the different family trees I had created on sites that offered pre-generated family trees based on my family tree research; free, fillable templates that different sites offered; and some that I had created in Family Tree Maker over a decade ago; along with others. This got me sidetracked to where I decided to try to create my own, easy, DIY templates for family trees, using various resources.

What I Used to Create My Easy, DIY Family Tree Templates:

• Microsoft Power Point
• Old Family Tree Maker included backgrounds and embellishments
• Free backgrounds and embellishments from Pixabay and UnSplash
• My own designs and creativity

How I Designed My Simple, DIY Family Tree Charts:

• Created my templates in power point
• Used same templates with different backgrounds and embellishments
• Used same templates with different fonts and font colors
• Recolored templates with same backgrounds
• Used different color saturations with same backgrounds
• Used different color tones with same backgrounds
• Used different transparencies with same backgrounds
• Used same templates and backgrounds with different embellishments

Use Your Family Tree Chart Creations for:

• Family history heirlooms that can be passed down through the generations
• ​Gifts and tokens of appreciation
• Business, blog, etc. downloadable freebies
• ​Part of your business research package
• Business product
• ​and more
  

Examples: 

My Family Tree Chart Heirloom Examples

My Other Family Tree Chart Examples

Even though it is hard to tell on some, each one is different either with a different backround, a change in transparency, saturation, tone, or color or both. 
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There are many sites out there where you can get a pre-generated family tree heirloom printed out (blog coming soon), that offer fillable templates, and more, some free and some not. There are also many sites where you can create family tree templates to use for visual reference, presentations, and more (blog coming soon). But you can always DIY your own family history heirlooms to pass down through the generations or give as a gift, by creating your own family tree charts and templates!


 
 
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