Is there a program to put your family tree in book form, by generation?

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Is there a program to put your family tree in book form, by generation?

I have my family tree in Gedcom format to share with the computer literate in my family, but I would like to put it in book form. Starting with me and working back or starting with as far back as I can go on each branch and working back to me. Are there any free/cheap programs out there? I've just started my research about 5 months ago and have 1,000 people to try and organize in an easier format than the visual family tree.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Family Tree Maker ($40 or so) and Roots Magic ($29 or so) will both do it. You pick "Descendants of" your earliest ancestor or "Ancestors of" yourself. (Or make four books, one for each set of cousins, by choosing your grandparents for "Ancestors of".)

RM has two neat features. You can "Print" to an RTF document, open it in word, and tweak it. You can also copy all of your data AND a read-only version of RM onto a CD, one for each cousin. That way of a second cousin once removed by marriage was Abraham Lincoln, and he doesn't show up on the "Ancestors of" report, you can still show people how you are related. Saves trees, too.

They should both ask you if they should print notes. (I know RM does, so I suspect FTM will.) Notes are up to 32,000 characters that you enter for biographies, obits, census entries - anything narrative, that won't fit in a neat little factoid. ancestry.com has a program like that, but I don't know how much it costs. I know in PAF, which is free through the LDS (Mormon) church, there is a way to do it. Just download the program, import your gedcom file, and then you should be able to print it out, either as an ancestral chart or a descendency chart. It puts alot of the information in there, like birth, marriage, and death info. Plus, if you are descended through some people more than once, you can have it print the information twice, or it would say "# number such-as-such is the same as # such-as-such". Check to see if your genealogy program has a book format, some do.
Also, put in "publishing your family tree" into google and you'll get a ton of references.

Way to go on all the names in so little time. Good Luck. hey dude yes there is and its free its from my heritage.com i downloaded it and oh god its so cool ive got book reports and all, you can do book reports for individual families aswell go download it now its free