Nearly all of us have made some progress on a 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. 

Chinese Family History Group (CFHG) volunteer Gary Leach wanted something to hang on a wall, something interesting and attractive to show others, but didn’t have any talent in layout, design, or computer program skills.  Then it dawned on him, he had kids for that!  And what better way to initiate discussions with your children about genealogy, than working on a family tree project together?

So Gary, with his son Kyle, are going to show you how they created their family 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 they decided to use PowerPoint, so they will center their discussion on how they used it to create their Chew Family Tree.