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My wife wanted a picture with a family tree in the sitting room, where there's a picture of a real tree and names and photos all over the branches of the tree,

My wife wanted a picture with a family tree in the sitting room, where there's a picture of a real tree and names and photos all over the branches of the tree, because she saw the family tree of her uncle. She is Asian. We tried Gramps about a month ago and discovered that Gramps didn't seem to support this use case easily. It's a pity because the name «Gramps» seems to hint at easy usability for simple people, too. Can you recommend low-cost software? If the software covers wooden family trees well I am ready to invest even a couple hundred bucks. It's important that my wife can do this work herself. She is not computer-illiterate but not a programmer herself. She is a typical end user.

carlob 5y ago
My brother is very into genealogy and has tried several software and online services, however he has always done his wooden family trees for print and gifting in Illustrator. This makes me think that the problem of automatically generating a family tree that looks good enough to be put in a frame is not yet solved, though I haven't done the research myself. Someone should disrupt this field :)
- _nalply 5y ago
  But then someone surely has the genius idea to offer this as a cloud solution for free. Then we have ads such that suddenly I have a sister called Coca Cola. Or it is maliciously implemented freemium, for example someone spent hours entering their family and printing is only possible for a fee. Perhaps my wife is lucky and there is solid non-cloud desktop software which she groks. Then she is proud to have a family tree which she grew herself.
- brensmith 5y ago
  If you're willing to put in the time with LaTeX, there is a very good package for generating some exceptionally beautiful family trees with the https://www.ctan.org/pkg/genealogytree https://www.ctan.org/pkg/genealogytree package.

carlob 5y ago

My brother is very into genealogy and has tried several software and online services, however he has always done his wooden family trees for print and gifting in Illustrator. This makes me think that the problem of automatically generating a family tree that looks good enough to be put in a frame is not yet solved, though I haven't done the research myself. Someone should disrupt this field :)

_nalply 5y ago
But then someone surely has the genius idea to offer this as a cloud solution for free. Then we have ads such that suddenly I have a sister called Coca Cola. Or it is maliciously implemented freemium, for example someone spent hours entering their family and printing is only possible for a fee. Perhaps my wife is lucky and there is solid non-cloud desktop software which she groks. Then she is proud to have a family tree which she grew herself.
brensmith 5y ago
If you're willing to put in the time with LaTeX, there is a very good package for generating some exceptionally beautiful family trees with the https://www.ctan.org/pkg/genealogytree https://www.ctan.org/pkg/genealogytree package.