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Yeah sorry, my laptop broke on Tuesday so I haven't been able to access the internet until now.

Family tree making is really trial and error.

Step 1
The first thing you need to do is go on source mode. It makes life easier since you're going to be doing a lot of pasting.

Type in your first family member. Eg. Karein Celestine. Now, put a single space before the name. This creates the grey scroll box you need. Eg.

(space)Karein Celestine

creates

Karein Celestine

If you forget to put a space before their name, there will be no grey box and it will look like this:

Karein Celestine

So you'll know if you've forgotten a space.

Step 2
A family tree has 5 components:

─ (used for joining two people together)

│ (indicates children/next generation)

┬ (connects the two symbols before it at the top)

┴ (connects the two symbols before it at the bottom- used when parents have more than one child) ┐ and ┌  (used when more than one child)

These aren't things found on your keyboard so you'll need to copy and paste them. Don't fall into the trap of thinking the │ and ─ above, are the same as the - and | you find on your keyboard.

Now piece your family tree together, by copy/pasting those symbols together.

Karein Celestine───────────────┬────────────────Mikage's Mother │                                   │       ┌───────────────┬────────────┴───────┬───────────────┐       │               │                    │               │ Kokuyou Celestine │                    │               │ Mikage Celestine         │               │ Kohaku Celestine    │ Rinka Celestine

Step 3
Correcting your family tree.

You can see that the family tree I've just made doesn't match up perfectly- but when I look at it through source mode, it looks perfectly aligned (just go on any family tree section, click edit and source mode- and compare it to the preview version to see what I mean). This is why it's trial and error, because you have to realign everything whilst constantly checking the preview to make sure it looks straight.

So if some things on the preview version are too far to the right to match, I just move them back that number of spaces.

Eg. The │'s below that 't' shape are too far to the right by 4 spaces, so I backspace by 4 before the │'s. So this:

Karein Celestine───────────────┬────────────────Mikage's Mother │                                   │       ┌───────────────┬────────────┴───────┬───────────────┐ Kokuyou Celestine │                    │               │ Becomes this:

Karein Celestine───────────────┬────────────────Mikage's Mother │                               │       ┌───────────────┬────────────┴───────┬───────────────┐ Kokuyou Celestine │                    │               │

Then the 'upside down t-shape' is too far to the right by 4 spaces. So I delete 4 of the ─'s before the t-shape. So this:

Karein Celestine───────────────┬────────────────Mikage's Mother │                               │       ┌───────────────┬────────────┴───────┬───────────────┐ Kokuyou Celestine │                    │               │

Becomes this:

Karein Celestine───────────────┬────────────────Mikage's Mother │                               │       ┌───────────────┬────────┴───────┬───────────────┐ Kokuyou Celestine │                    │               │

And so fourth. Just go through the whole family tree deleting some things and adding some things like that until it is perfectly aligned in preview mode. It doesn't matter if it looks a mess in edit mode (and it will look a mess in edit mode), all that matters is how it looks in preview.

Things to watch out for
Something like this may happen:

Karein Celestine───────────────┬────────────────Mikage's Mother │                               │       ┌───────────────┬────────┴───────┬───────────────┐ Kokuyou Celestine     │                │               │ Mikage Celestine         │               │ Kohaku Celestine    │ Rinka Celestine

That's because whilst realigning my family tree, I have deleted the space in front of Kokuyou's name, so the grey box has disappeared. Everything must have at least 1 space between it and the left side of the edit box.

If this problem appears then you just add a space in front of the name again, and that fixes it. Eg.

Karein Celestine───────────────┬────────────────Mikage's Mother │                               │       ┌───────────────┬────────┴───────┬───────────────┐ Kokuyou Celestine     │                │               │ Mikage Celestine         │               │ Kohaku Celestine    │ Rinka Celestine

Family trees are one of the hardest things to do, but I hope I have explained everything. If you have any questions please ask. :)