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Produce a Printable Family Archive

Export the chart with dossiers, photographs and supporting evidence.

Start with the selected family, a saved chart and reviewed privacy settings. The provided sample PDF is an actual export of fictional data.

All people and stories in these screenshots are fictional. Photographs were generated for these examples. The sample collection opens locally; changes to it do not save to your online collection automatically.

Watch Genealogy and Family Archives — Three Films for the family PDF, face tagging and the complete Person workflow.

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Review the chart

Check the starting Person, scope, labels and layout. Select a manageable family and a readable style. Save chart preferences before proceeding.

The chart ready for export.

Open Export

Choose Export and review the optional family cover and chart settings. Exporting a document does not save edits to the online collection.

Family archive export options.

Choose a suitable page

Select chart paper size and orientation. Enable the styled PDF border if wanted. Dossiers use A4 portrait independently of the chart sheet size.

Chart page size and orientation controls.

Select the dossiers and contents

Choose Starting person only or Everyone shown in the chart. Select biography, genealogy, relations, images and evidence as needed. Keep optional sensitive content excluded unless intended.

Dossier scope and selected content.

Choose evidence handling and export

Select appended pages, embedded originals or an index. Choose Export PDF and watch progress. Supporting PDFs are collected after the Person dossiers. Wait for the complete download.

Evidence settings and export controls.

Review the actual file

Open the PDF. Check the chart, Person sections, shared photos, appendix and navigation links. Confirm that the intended people and information are present before sharing.

An inspected page from the fictional archive PDF.

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