Carrying on from my first blog where I was struggling to find a site that was easy to use to enter my family tree information, I am pleased to say I have now finished this using a simple powerpoint document.
To bring colour to the chart I added a tree from clip art, to go behind the text boxes, I think it looks good. Now I have the template finished I can use this to add more family members, my brother and sisters and their children and then go back to fill in details about dads brothers and sisters and their families and so on until I have no further data to add - hmmm sounds a long job, perhaps I will do this during the winter months.
Now, as you can see this all looks a very nice, neat and colourful with names and dates in boxes, but what about the photos and the information about where they lived, what they did, where they are buried?
So, I had a think about how to incorporate all the information in one place and I decided to make a film. I converted the powerpoint to a .png file selected the photos and imported these into Adobe Premier Elements to make a short film. Then I narrated my family history.
It was fun and really easy to do and I think it works really well and does bring my family tree to life.
Have a look at my demo (which is a shorten version of the full tree) and let me know what you think.
