Thanks, Sue! It was a tough decision, especially for a kids book, but I figured they could read names of interest if really interested. Valerie Keep up with Nichole's recovery: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicholemaples ________________________________ From: Sue Stevens <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sat, January 21, 2012 7:47:54 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Family trees in children's books Valerie, My head is spinning, but you did a fantastic job in my opinion! Sue S. From: Valerie Maples Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 11:29 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Family trees in children's books Please let me know how my final description was. I ended up with this: [image: Family tree showing five generations with parents Daniel and Patience as parents at the top. They had two daughters, Martha and Ruth. Following Martha's side, she had a daughter, Patience, who had a son, Tom, who had a daughter, Patience. The second sister, Ruth, had a daughter, Grace, who had three daughters, Sarah (mom to Timothy and Priscilla), Susan (mom to Sarah-Jane) and Jane (mom to Titus). This chart shows that second Patience and Grace are first cousins, Tom is a second cousin to Sarah, Susan, and Jane, and the third Patience is a third cousin to Timothy, Priscilla, Sarah-Jane, and Titus.] Is that understandable? Valerie Keep up with Nichole's recovery: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicholemaples ________________________________ From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, January 19, 2012 2:12:41 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Family trees in children's books One way I've used successfully is to take each parent, and then do two ancestor charts, one for the mother and one for the father that are at the 'start' of the family, using the technique I came up with to describe pedigrees and ancestor charts for Bookshare. smile. Since I used the mathematical models invented to describe the "pedigrees" of royalty (can you believe there's an entire area of research devoted to that? grin) it works well for describing family trees, as long as you break them this way into what are really 'lineage pedigrees' or ancestor charts. Here's a link to the page in the volunteer manual on how to describe pedigrees. https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/4.8+A.+Creating+written+descriptions+of+Pedigree+and+Ancestor+Charts If you need any help with it, email me or give me a call and we'll see if we can figure it out together. I'd better throw in a caveat here, although it doesn't apply to Valerie. smile. The page and the technique are designed for sighted volunteers. So, don't waste your time reading this page in the volunteer manual unless you're sighted. It needs sight to use the technique because you have to look at an image of a specialized kind of graph in order to turn it into an easy-to-understand written description of the information in the graph. Judy s. Valerie Maples wrote: Hey, folks! > >I have a short children's chapter book (about 70 pages) with a portion of a >five generation family tree (through third cousins of two sisters from same >parents) and I have no idea how to describe or annotate it since it is a young > >reader's book. > >Suggestions greatly appreciated! > Valerie No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4754 - Release Date: 01/19/12