Typically, the family tree starts with one person as the root, and this is usually the person who is creating the chart. Each box or 'leaf' represents an individual in the family, and lines or 'branches' are drawn between family members to illustrate their relationship to each other. As illustrated in the below family tree template, maternal and paternal grandparents always come on the top of the family tree design, followed by the parents and then the children. If you want to elaborate further, you can add the cousins, siblings, distant aunts, uncles, or in-law families to ensure the family tree diagram has all the correct information placed in a single space.
