Print a complete Family Tree

LegacyUser

Ronald Phillip Cooper said: On Ancestry i am able to print out Pedigree View charts starting with the beginning of the Tree to the end of the Tree in one easy motion. This does not exist and if I want to print off my F.S. Tree it is complicate and not as useful as ANCESTRY. Please consider this same option

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: Welcome to the community-powered feedback forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

Remember that Ancestry is a paid site, while FamilySearch is entirely free. The site is still in development and certain features have yet to be released.

To do this, you will need to use a local family tree management program. There are three that are fully certified, but there may be additional programs that allow you to print cascading pedigree charts. You will need to look through the Solutions Gallery to see if there are any (I suspect there are).

The three programs I mentioned are Ancestral Quest, Legacy, and Roots Magic. All three have free versions and they allow you to download to a local database, your FamilySearch FamilyTree ancestral lines and their descendants. Then, using the programs' print facilities, you can produce your cascading pedigree charts.

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: The Solutions Gallery link is at the bottom of this and most FamilySearch pages.

LegacyUser

Jeff Wiseman said:

if I want to print off my F.S. Tree it is complicate and not as useful as Ancestry

Remember that FamilySearch FamilyTree and Ancestry.com have completely and totally different ways of doing things.

On Ancestry, each member can have multiple private trees, all of which they have TOTAL control over and no one else can touch. In the FS FamilyTree it is totally different. There is only ONE huge tree that everyone shares. That tree currently has about 1.3 Billion names in it.

So if you were to get what you are suggesting for, you could easily end up with 100's of thousands of names in that print out!

So, in FS if you go to your Great, Great, Great, Grandfather's record and you change something, there can be thousands of descendants of his, many being members on FS. That means that each of THEM can also see that single shared record, and any of them can modify or improve it.