Is it possible to revolutionize family trees?
How can we represent all the complexity and beauty of family ties on a single family tree occupying a reasonable area?
How can we completely renew the representation of family trees by making them both bearers of a maximum of information in a readable way, capable of reproducing the complexity of family connections and more decorative?
How to represent ascendants, descendants, cousins, collaterals… all on a single « displayable » tree?
Especially for very large families?
This is the challenge that the Grafitree team has successfully taken up!
Our 1st intuition was to free ourselves from the rigidity of traditional trees where the position in space – in fact on the plane – encodes information: the father above on the left, the mother above on the right, etc.
Then, it became necessary to fine-tune a combination of topology, graph theory, mechanical simulation and state-of-the-art computer graphics… and voila 😉
Grafitree is a revolutionary genealogical database layout service.
Contact us at the address below:
Our offer is particularly suitable for very large trees of several hundreds of individuals
Here are some of our creations:
- 200 individuals on an A1 poster (84×60 cm), with coats of arms (optional):
- 600 individuals on a poster in double A0 format (120×160 cm):
- 575 individuals on poster in double A0 format (120×160 cm):
- 1660 individuals over 14 generations on a 260 x 175 cm wall poster (clickable to compare the dimensions with the others):
- the family tree of Elizabeth II of England: 275 individuals on a 90×90 cm poster:
Have a closer look at this tree here: the family tree of Queen Elizabeth II of England, not completely up-to-date but with 275 individuals and their many connections 😉
Our model allows to visually represent a lot of information
Our model allows to represent in a visually readable way:
- the individual or the marriage « root » of the tree
- the direct ascendants and descendants of the root
- collaterals with no limit of degree
- the first names, surnames, title or profession, sex, date of birth and date of death of each individual and the dates of marriages when this information is entered in the database
- for each individual: the generational distance to the root, and with generation level lines
- for each collateral individual: the distance from the individual to the root
- subgroups of individuals identified by colour
The legend of our trees is available on this page. In addition to the trees, we may add a small QR Code linked to this page.
Our standard offer starts at $449 for a family tree in Acrobat or Illustrator file
This price corresponds to our basic offer for a tree of 128 individuals.
Our rates apply for a database in GEDCOM format (standard working and export format for the majority of genealogical database management software and services) that you will provide by you and depend on the number of individuals in your genealogical database.
Depending on the number of individuals in your database, your family tree will be displayed on an A2 (60×42 cm), A1 (84×60 cm) or A0 (120×84 cm) poster or even more if necessary, without size limit, according to your needs.
You will receive a Acrobat (.pdf) file ready to be printed and an Illustrator file (.ai) as well.
A tailor-made service
We also offer tailor-made services for processing your genealogical database: database conversion, duplicate cleaning, error correction, etc., and formatting: adding coats of arms, highlighting some of the individuals, etc.
For a standard solution or for specific needs: contact us and we will do our best to find a solution with you!
What would your tree look like?
Send us your database and the name of the individual or couple you want to use as the root to
and we will provide you with a quote – including an image of your tree – before any order is placed.
We are committed to using your genealogy database only for editing your tree and will not make any other use of it.