* recommended diagrham / reports for initial contact

[Fergus]

Hello all

I am asking your advice on what basic method to share information with relatives. I make contact with a cousin that I have not spoken to for years and say 'look I'll print / .pdf you some work that I have been doing on the family tree for your interest and comments'

What do I send? There is so much choice in reporting in the program that I do not know where to turn. Initailly I was thinking of an 'all relatives' diagram made into a .pdf using a little printer I have installed called CutePDF writer.

Then perhaps print Family sheets or something else that produces narritive - however these tend to me to be often only one person per sheet of paper - and if there is not much information on that person - a lot of wasted space.

I basically want someone to say - look if you stick to this diagrham & these three reports you will get most information without having to customise at all. That will do your for a start!

Ideas welcomed - thanks Fergus

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[gerrynuk]

Hi Fergus,

First of all V4 has its own pdf printer driver so you don't need to install a separate one just to produce FH reports etc in pdf format.

Second, the first report I send is usually an outline Descendant or Ancestor Report in pdf format. This is a fairly compact report that has all the basic birth/baptism, marriage, death/burial information. It can be customised to hide or show images and other facts. I can then elaborate at a later date if I want to provide additional information about specific individuals.

Gerry