Genea-Musings: Making a Photo Tree in Family Tree Maker 2012

Making a Photo Tree in Family Tree Maker 2012

I posted about Making a Photo Tree in RootsMagic 6?on 5 February, and said I would try to do something similar in Family Tree Maker 2012 and Legacy Family Tree.

I didn't find a similar "Photo Tree" in the Family Tree Maker 2012 selection of Charts. ?I did find that I could add the thumbnail pictures of my ancestors to the classical Pedigree Chart, however.?

The process for creating a Pedigree Chart with photos is:

* ?Highlight your selected person to be #1 on the chart
* ?Select the "Publish" workspace
* ?Select "Pedigree Chart" from the list
* ?In the right-hand panel, review the different fields
* ?In the "Pictures" field, select "Thumbnail"?
* ?I chose a Background from the "Browse for Image" selection
* ?Click on the "Generate Chart" if it doesn't create itself automatically
* ?Once the chart is created, I clicked on the "Share" icon (upper right corner) and selected "Export to Image" and saved it as a JPG file.

Here is the final product:



I tried doing this in a "Vertical Pedigree Chart" tree with #1 at the bottom, parents above, etc. The final product (squished spacing, with a different background) would come out as two landscape pages (but it's one image!):



Those are pretty good results, I think, and have a professional look. ?

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