I have to make a family tree out of the elements in the group "Noble Gases" for school. It says, "This should include pictures of the elements in your family/group [noble gases] and at least two compounds formed by each element. I have no idea how to do this. Help, someone?

As I recall, that would be a tall skinny tree! The two largest members of the group have electrons so far out from the nucleus, that Fluorine can entangle them, forming genuine compounds, with actual medical uses as toxic to viruses. Two compounds each? Haven't heard of anything like that. But I haven't looked lately, either! Regards, Larry.

I'm doing a family tree for English homework on Queen Elisabeth (I live in France, but I'm English). I just have to put her parents, her (plus husband) and their children. I'm getting a bit stuck on Prince Charles, what do you put for Princess Diana? How can you show they were married – is there a symbol/sign?
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Thanks nottahobbit, I'll make your answer best answer when the question has expired.

Treat Diana as Charles's wife, regardless of whether she is alive or dead. She was the mother of his children, and that (the "genes") is what matters in GENEalogy.

I just finished reading The Red Tent (great book by the way.) And now I really want an excellent family tree that starts with Laban and all of his wives. It would be ideal if it ended with all of the great grandsons of Laban, like all of the children of Reuben and Simeon and Joseph and everything. Please help!

Except for what you see in the Bible, you won't find anything else.

There are some people who claim to trace their ancestry back to Adam and Eve or some Biblical person, but they don't meet documentation standards of professional genealogist. There just aren't any records that go back that far. A lot was oral tradition that the writers put in the Bible. Any documentation would have been destroyed over the years.

I have seen trees claiming to trace the British Royal family back to David's royal line but it is based on speculation.

You have to understand people write historical novels which are not the same thing as history books and in them there are a lot of speculation to make the story interesting.

My husbands parents are divorced and re-married. I would like to do a family tree and not sure how to handle that. Where do I insert them so that it makes sense? And step sister?
Also, he has an older half brother that was adopted by his father, so is that put under sibling like normal?
I don't plan on doing this on any computer program. I am filling out an art piece.

What are commonly referred to as step parents are actually multiple spouses of the same person. How it is represented (or IF it is represented) depends on what kind of tree you have.

If it is an ancestor tree, then the "step-parents" are not included at all because there is no relationship to the person at the bottom of the tree. Only direct blood relatives are included.

If it were a descendant tree, then depending on whether the source of the tree was on your husband's father side or mother's side makes a difference. If the descendant tree stared with an ancestor on your husband's father's side, then your husband's father is shown with two wives. The children he has with each wife is shown descending from the wife. Note that here, the second husband of his mother is not shows because they have no relation to the decendancy on the father's side.

Likewise, if the decendant tree was on your husband's mother's side, then his mother would show two spouses, and children from each spouse would be shown decending from the appropriate spouse. In this case, his father's second wife would not appear in the tree.

Remember, a descendant tree shows descendants (working past to present) from a single individual from the past and only their descendants and the descendant's spouses to show parentage. An ancestor tree starts with a person and works backwards in time only showing direct blood ancestors and their spouse related to the line.

Aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. are only shown on descendant trees. Also, your husband only has one ancestor tree starting with him. BUT, can be part of multiple descendant trees that end with him. Two (one for each parent), four (one for each grandparent), eight (one for each great grandparent), etc.

What are the ways to find a royal connection in a family tree?

Trace back your family tree one generation at a time and see if you connect. Be sure to document any and all sources. That is the only way to do it with accuracy. You can not just pick a person arbitrarily in history (royal or not) and know that you are connected without doing the proper research to get there.

I am looking for a way to organise all the information I have about relatives but would also look for more information about my ancestors. I have seen a few family tree maker software packages but would like opinions on which is best.
So far, I am leaning towards Family Tree Maker 2006 which comes with all sorts of records on disc.

Family Tree Maker 2006 is one of, if not the best i suppose you could call it the grandaddy of family tree software, i use 2005 at the moment but i am considering upgrading as 2006 has many improvements, best prices i have seen have been on Ebay. hope this helps

Can anyone give me a link to the largest single family tree ever recorded? I think mine's pretty big, 220 people and 12 generations.

I have over 49,000 people in my genealogical database in one tree alone. I have a friend that researches primarily only one surname and he has over 30,000 people in that database.

You are off to a good start, but I guess you are talking about direct lines and not the whole family tree. I stopped counting after I went back 14 generations as that only got me back to the late 1500's. There is only two of my family lines that I can't get back further than 6 generations and that is because for one of them I don't have the tiem or money to go to Germany and do more research at this time, the other is just a common name that I just haven't broken the brickwall yet but I will eventually.

I'm not sure what the largest tree is but I know for a fact that some of the Jewish genealogies are quite extensive.

I recently recieved parts of my family tree started by my grandmother, where do I go to get the best possible information?

Don't tell anyone I told you, but this is how you do it.
First, you'll need a software program to keep track of all of your information, because writing it down and trying to keep track of it all is consuming. Go to ebay.com, and search for "Family Tree Maker 16". This software includes a one-year free premium subscription to Ancestry.com at no cost, which includes access to all of the U. S. Federal Census images, Immigration listings, and other priceless reference materials, such as books on histories of the region, county, or even city, that you may be searching for an ancestor in. You'll be surprised what you can find in this free one-year membership. The cost for the software averages $19.99 online, with sometimes Free shipping. Always check the comments on the seller, though, to help make an informed choice whether to buy from them or go to the next one and buy from the next guy.
Second, install the software after you get it in the mail from the purchase, or if you go to a store and happen to find it and buy it. You'll have to give a credit card number that is current and valid to get the one-year free ancestry.com membership, but you can cancel before the year is up, and your credit card will not be billed. There is a link at ancestry.com once you log in to view your account, and it will show when your one year is up.
Best of Luck!

I'm not sure what's available for family tree software, or even if any free software exists (I'm assuming some does). So, if it does, I'm wondering what you'd recommend and where I can find it online. I was using Brother's Keeper a while ago, but I want to revamp with a newer and easier-to-use program.

PAF (Personal Ancestral File) (Maybe – everyone just calls it "PAF".)

Go to
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp
click on "Order/Download products"
Get a URL that is 300 characters long.
Keep clicking.

I use Roots Magic, $29. I know $29 is food for a week for some people, half a dinner tab for others if they skip dessert and stiff the waiter. Still- the RM folks couldn't make a living if their product wasn't much better than PAF; who'd pay for something that cost money if they could get just as good for free?