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I'm on my third attempt to draw a rough Family Tree on lining paper.
I'm attempting to do this on the table, which is under the living room window.

The first one was abandoned when a cat brought up a hairball on it.
The second destroyed by muddy footprints - my cats can walk through the kitchen, across the huge rug in the living room, up the (carpeted) stairs, along the rug in the spare bedroom, and onto the windowsill - and STILL leave muddy footprints.
I'm sure they 'prefer' the spare bedroom, as the furniture is white.
Muddy footprints on the bedhead, bedside table etc. - so you can imagine the mess, when they only had to walk across one rug :-( :-( :-(

I gave up on the third one, when I was trying to 'work around' Betty - who decided it was the perfect place to sleep - and managed to add siblings to the wrong ancestor :-| :-|

Can a person with two cats ever manage to make a family tree by hand?

Paws for thought :-D

I pinned lining round the wall in one of the spare bedrooms......then did a second one underneath it,gave a good area to have margins for notes etc.......also did it in pencil and had a rubber to hand. ;-) :-D :-D

Also had colour pens to mark what certificates there was for each person against name.,

red.blue and black dots,,BDM.

its now round 2 walls, :-D :-D

Barbra :-D :-D :-D

I considered that, Kay, but on the stairs.
I haven't enough 'wall space' anywhere else.
BUT, my loo is downstairs,
My 3am rushes downstairs are likely to result in the dislodging of the paper :-(
Also, 3 year old grand daughter....
Cute - but loves drawing on ANY piece of paper - she found my calendar...

Lock the cats up!

Kidding

I've tried that - well, closing them out of the room, but both doors to the living room open inwards, and have handles rather than knobs.
They just jump up, pull the handles down, and come in like bats out of hell - all pleased with themselves at opening the doors :-| :-| :-|

Treat them like kids...tell them they can roam at their will.....they'll ignore it then..

I remember trying to draft mine out the first time I did it for the village history exhibition.

I had bought a huge roll of cartridge paper at considerable expense and was able to use the big tables upstairs in the old record office because they were behind the exhibition.

However, I could not get the lines straight and it was a mess so my neighbour came with me an drafted it out for me.

As if that was not enough to make me feel inadequate, he was registered blind!

Ooo-err, Sharron.
I can get the lines straight - just can't see through the hairballs or muddy footprints :-(

:-D

K????'s seems to have come up with a good way of doing it :-)