General ⇒ Drawing a Family Tree

[anta40]

Is there any LaTeX package that can be used to draw family tree (hopefully it's relatively easy)?
Something like this:

The rectangle means men, and rounded rectangle means women.
Oh the left, there are numbers which are meant to indicate the number of the generation.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use TikZ for that. Have a look at the TikZ tree examples. In the TikZ example gallery you can find many more examples.

Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I created an example. I used styles for rectangles and rounded rectangles and for color, of course you can change it to gray. Adjust styles and distances how you like it, you may use this as a start.

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{trees}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
  man/.style={rectangle,draw,fill=blue!20},
  woman/.style={rectangle,draw,fill=red!20,rounded corners=.8ex},
  grandchild/.style={grow=down,xshift=1em,anchor=west,
    edge from parent path={(\tikzparentnode.south) |- (\tikzchildnode.west)}},
  first/.style={level distance=6ex},
  second/.style={level distance=12ex},
  third/.style={level distance=18ex},
  level 1/.style={sibling distance=5em}]
    % Parents
    \coordinate
      child[grow=left] {node[man,anchor=east]{Jim}}
      child[grow=right] {node[woman,anchor=west]{Jane}}
      child[grow=down,level distance=0ex]
    [edge from parent fork down]
    % Children and grandchildren
    child{node[man] {Alfred}
      child[grandchild,first] {node[man]{Joe}}
      child[grandchild,second] {node[woman]{Heather}}
      child[grandchild,third] {node[woman] {Barbara}}}
    child{node[woman] {Berta}
      child[grandchild,first] {node[man]{Howard}}}
    child {node[man] {Charles}}
    child {node[woman]{Doris}
      child[grandchild,first] {node[man]{Nick}}
      child[grandchild,second] {node[woman]{Liz}}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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Stefan

[middlec000]

I'm working on a family tree project and found this helpful package built for the task:
https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros ... ealogytree