Your Characters Need Family Trees Too!
The question is how do you make them?
I can answer that!
First, you have to decide how much info you want on it. Myself personally, I have when they were born, when they died [if at all], who they're married to [if at all], and who their kids are [if at all].
What I did was get myself a huge sheet of paper. You know, about the size of those poster boards you can get in craft stores Hobby Lobby? You can buy notebooks full of that, but I already had some because when my family moved, we used some of it for wrapping and what we didn't use got folded up. :)
So, anyway. If anybody will get married or have kids or anything between the beginning and end of the book, base it off the end of the book. That's what I had to do. I got an old gift card and a pencil and a ruler and traced around the gift card for each character. I used the ruler to make line connections (marriage, kids, siblings, etc). After I made boxes for all the connections I tabled them in pencil and double checked them- birth dates, names, family connections, I wrote in small letters under the names in the boxes. After I was sure everything was right I went over it with a set of 36 colored Bic markers I have. I color coded everything and drew a key on the bottom of the page.
As far as I know there's no way to make a digital one with full control over what it says on each character.
I can answer that!
First, you have to decide how much info you want on it. Myself personally, I have when they were born, when they died [if at all], who they're married to [if at all], and who their kids are [if at all].
What I did was get myself a huge sheet of paper. You know, about the size of those poster boards you can get in craft stores Hobby Lobby? You can buy notebooks full of that, but I already had some because when my family moved, we used some of it for wrapping and what we didn't use got folded up. :)
So, anyway. If anybody will get married or have kids or anything between the beginning and end of the book, base it off the end of the book. That's what I had to do. I got an old gift card and a pencil and a ruler and traced around the gift card for each character. I used the ruler to make line connections (marriage, kids, siblings, etc). After I made boxes for all the connections I tabled them in pencil and double checked them- birth dates, names, family connections, I wrote in small letters under the names in the boxes. After I was sure everything was right I went over it with a set of 36 colored Bic markers I have. I color coded everything and drew a key on the bottom of the page.
As far as I know there's no way to make a digital one with full control over what it says on each character.