Thread:Aks6609/@comment-31222699-20170204141428/@comment-31222699-20170205181408

Hi Aks,

Thanks for getting back to me. Do you know what kind of file the editable Barlow family tree file is? I would definitely be up for trying to use that kind of software to make the family tree. When I was constructing the family tree I made I looked at different family tree construction tools and software but none of the ones I found were suitable as there are so many people who are related in multiple ways (e.g. Aaron and Debbie Dingle are first, second and third cousins) that the software gets confused. In the end I used Microsoft Excel to make the file and then exported as PDF because when you zoom out on Excel to try to see the whole tree the size of the font gets bigger and messes with the formatting. My plan was to keep updating the Excel document myself and making new PDFs for the site but I'd definitely prefer to make an image file and I can see how it's better to have it so that others can edit it. Do you think it would work if I could convert the PDF to a JPEG and also post the Excel document so that others could edit it if necessary? Sorry to send such a long message but I really want to make sure the tree page can end up online because it's the kind of thing people like me are always looking for.

Thanks,

Kirsty