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How can I make a family tree with my cousins, aunts and uncles?

I want it to look like this:

No matter what style or artistic form you want (I have seen some pretty interesting family tree formats), you have to understand that there are TWO different forms of family trees – no matter what the artistic style.

One is called an ancestor tree. In this, you start with a person (maybe you) and work BACKWARDS in time. An ancestor tree ONLY contains direct blood relatives (your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc.) No aunts, uncles, cousins, 5th cousins 4 times removed, etc. are in an ancestor tree. Only direct blood relatives.

The second is called a Descendant tree. In this tree, you start with a “historical” person and work FORWARD in time, towards the present. This is the type of tree that contains aunts, uncles, etc.

Say you start with your great-grandfather. He (and maybe his wife) would be at the top of the tree. Under him would be all their children (your grandfather and grand aunts/uncles), then under each of them would be THEIR children (your father, your aunts/uncles), then under each of them would be THEIR children (you, your cousins, etc.)

So to have a tree with your uncles, cousins, etc., you have to use a DESCENDANT tree, not an Ancestor tree. Unfortunately, while there are tons of pre-formatted, often highly artistic ancestor trees, there really can’t be descendant trees “pre-made”. The reason is that an Ancestor tree is FIXED. Each person has 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents….so the number of boxes at each level is known.

But nobody can know ahead of time how many children someone will have, or how many children each of those children would have. So having a “pre-formatted” descendant tree is pretty much impossible.

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