How To Display Your Family Tree

Nearly all of us have made some progress on our family tree.  After you’ve gotten a couple of generations worth of names, a natural question would be “What am I going to do with this?”  You could keep it all in folders or boxes, or stick your tree and documents into a notebook, but that’s difficult to share with your family and friends.  I wanted something to hang on my wall, something interesting and attractive to show others, but I didn’t have any talent in layout, design or computer programs skills.  Then it dawned on me, I have kids for that!  And what better way to initiate discussions with your children about genealogy, than working on a family tree project together?  So my son, Kyle, and I are going to show you how we created our tree using PowerPoint. There are other ways to do this.  YouTube has videos about making trees with Excel or you can purchase programs with family tree templates.  But we decided to use PowerPoint so we’ll center our discussion on how we used it to create our Chew Family Tree.

After his mother’s passing in 1991, Gary Leach began searching for his Chinese ancestral background.  A native of Los Angeles with Malaysian roots, Gary’s search has taken him to his ancestral village in Guangdong province and connected him with relatives in Australia, Hong Kong, and London.  A retired pharmacist, Gary volunteers in the medical industry and with the Chinese Family History Group