Generation Maps
In November Dan Lawyer posted about his 7' x 4' map from generationmaps.com. I liked the idea of displaying your genealogy, and had also seen a post from Randy Seaver in October displaying his calligraphy-written ancestry chart.
Since I am currently working on a cross-stitch of my family tree, I am not in the market for ordering one of these charts yet. But when thinking about Christmas gifts, I thought it might be a good idea for my parents and my in-laws. I decided to test out generationmaps.com (since I don't have very good handwriting for making a chart of my own). I ordered each of them a 6 generation fan chart with a picture of the Salt Lake Temple in the background (both of them having gotten married there). Uploading my gedcom to the site was fairly easy. The problem came when the price of my shopping cart didn't change. I uploaded my file 4 or 5 times before the shopping cart price finally changed and I was able to then check out. That was a little frustrating, but could have been my own fault.
Everything else went very smoothly after that. I ordered the charts and had an email from one of their workers named Janet the very next day. She verified the 5 files I had uploaded and said she would get a mock-up to me soon. When the mock-up came I approved and disapproved things very easily and fixed information I didn't know was missing. I also wanted birth places, in addition to dates, and Janet put those all in by hand. She was always quick to change things and mailed the charts to me priority mail so that I would have them in time to ship for Christmas.
Sometimes companies do not impress me with their customer service, but Generation Maps had wonderful customer service. I highly recommend ordering a wall chart from them. Both of my charts look very nice and hopefully were a nice Christmas present. Thank you Generation Maps!