We are pleased to announce to all our English-speaking friends the launch of a revolutionary family tree printing service, particularly suited for very large families with several hundred individuals.
Revolutionary? Yes, because the developed representation allows for both dense and aesthetic depiction of links and information about ancestors, descendants, cousins, and collateral relatives without limits and without loss of readability.
Each tree takes root from a root-individual or root-couple to be specified: it is the family tree of this root.
All individuals are represented by circles approximately 25 mm in diameter, bearing names, first names, possible titles, dates of birth and death, as well as the generation number and the degree of cousinship with the root.
Level lines, like on a geographic map, elegantly separate different generations.
Marriages are represented by smaller circles bearing the date of the wedding. Arrows connect individuals to marriages according to family links. A particular treatment highlights agnatic lineages. A judicious choice of colors – to be developed together – allows distinguishing branches or any other relevant sub-groups.
Our standard service includes the design and printing in PDF format (file) of your family tree based on your genealogy database in GEDCOM format. But we are also able to provide additional services such as database manipulation (cleaning, merging, deduplication, etc.) and additional formatting (such as thumbnails with photographs or coats of arms). This can be specified together each time.
Our standard service rates are $400 for setup plus 33.3 cents per represented individual, for example, $600 for 600 individuals, figured out on an double-A0 poster.
The manufacturing process is as follows: you send us your database in GEDCOM format as well as the identity of the root individual or couple, then you receive a quote. Once this is validated by the payment of 50% of the amount, you receive a first proposal of design a few days later. After some exchanges to adjust the printing area and colors, we send you the final PDF file, ready to be printed on paper and displayed by you. You then pay the remaining 50%.
This service was developed by Pierre-Emmanuel, an architect in France, initially for his own family tree printing needs and now for everyone.
We are welcome to come and see our works on grafitre [dot] com and write to us at contact [at] grafitree [dot] com for any information.
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