What is the best way to print a landscape of my Irish family line on a plotter printer so I can see
I would love as much information included as possible from Family Search. Is there a separate app to print family trees showing children?
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@Julie A Tanner
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Julie.
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Short Answer: Such CANNOT be done directly from "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
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The only real "Printing" option in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' relates to a particular individual/person, to "Print" their "Family Group Record" and a "x4 Generation Pedigree" - very limited.
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Your best option is use one or more of the "Third Party" Applications that are "Certified" to work with "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
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The "Third Party" Applications that are "Certified" to work with "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' can be found in the "Solutions Gallery" of 'FamilySearch'.
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Here is the direct link to the "Solutions Gallery" in 'FamilySearch':
https://partners.familysearch.org/solutionsgallery/s/.
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There are many types of "Third Party" Application from, "Tree Management Programmes"; to, "Printing" Options; and, much more.
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For some "Third Party" Applications that are "Certified" to work with "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' there are, BOTH, a Basic FREE version; and, a PAID (ie. "Subscription") version, the latter just having more 'Bells and Whistles'.
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Some "Third Party" Applications that are "Certified" to work with "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' are, 'On-Line' "Websites"; whereas, others are 'standalone' personal (computer) programmes.
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Use one or more, the choice is yours ...
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And, there is a particular section titled "Charts" where you can "use these solutions to view or print your family tree data in a variety of interesting ways".
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Enjoy.
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I hope this helps.
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Brett
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So, do you know of a place where it can be done? I cannot proceed without mixing up names and generations as there are often 3 children with the same name in every family and am easily confused.
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@Julie A Tanner
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Julie
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I am sorry ...
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I have not tried ALL the various "Third Party" Applications, only some; and, certainly 'None' for "Printing".
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Take a look at that "Charts" in the "Solutions Gallery" you may find an 'Application' that may suit your particular need.
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Again, I am sorry that I can be of any real help/assistance.
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As an aside ...
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I am "Tagging" this 'Question' of yours, in the 'Group' being "FamilySearch Family Tree", in this "Community.FamilySearch" Forum, in some OTHER 'Groups' in the Forum being:
(1) "FamilySearch Tips and Tricks"; and,
(2) "General Questions"; and,
(3) "How Things Work",
in the hope that, the members of those groups may be better able to answer/assist you.
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Brett
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@FamilySearch Tips and Tricks
@General Questions
@How Things Work
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Your question is rather ambiguous
you say you "want as much info from FS as possible"
are you saying you really have no data yourself like in a local genealogical database?
and that you are totally reliant on what FS has? -
There are ways through 3rd party applications that you could download data from FS and put into your own database (such as Roots Magic and Ancestral Quest)
these type of programs do lots nice reporting
but if they cant do what you want you can still generate a GEDCOM file
and share with with a company that specializes in doing charting.
there are tons of companies on line that do genealogical wall charts for a price
but before all that - what you need is your data cleaned up, partitioned and consolidated into one local database that you can then generate a GEDCOM from. That can be a lot of work.
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BTW
there are also "Fan charts" that you can save to pdf format - and then you cold print on a large printer (you would probably want to enlarge it)
this is probably the quickest and easiest way directly from FS.
see example:
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As Dennis points out, using a PDF format fan chart can be good since it scales well. If you blow it up to fit on a printout that 3 foot by 5 foot big, all the text and graphics will still be smooth. However it is currently limited to a total of 7 generations. Also, it doesn't show siblings as Julie had asked for.
FS has indicated to us in the past that in general they were not going to get into a lot of this type of thing since there are so many other products out there that already do it. For example, I use Ancestral Quest which has many different printing capabilities. Here is PART of a narrow ancestry with siblings (I can get 15 generations onto only 4 pages this way):
I can also create a wall chart by printing out multiple pages and taping them together. Here's a bit of an example showing how the separate pages can stitch together (note how siblings are shown in italics):
Anyway, if you have a third party tool like this, you also get the side effect that you can "Backup" your work in the FSFT. (i.e., every time you finish working on a record in FSFT, you just sync it to your local database. That way any changes that are made after that on the FSFT can be very easily seen by using the comparison tool on the PC to compare how you left the record with what it is now. MUCH easier than trying to read the Change History logs)
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If you are just wanting to look at it and not change anything do a screen shot or a snipping tool. Copy and paste it.........You may have to minimize the screen to get it all in.
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Here is a site that shows various charting possibilities:
https://www.ongenealogy.com/family-tree-charts/
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