I can see your difficulty if some are out of touch, but perhaps you have older photos you could include (which would be how your parents remember them, I assume?)
When I think family tree I dont think the one with the leaves- I imagine a diagram with the parents at the top, their children in a row below (oldest to youngest, left to right) and then next generation below, and so on.
It does get tricky in modern families though, when you have divorces and so on, and sometimes if middle children have small families or no kids you can get a bit of a hole in your diagram, but I would play around with it. For someone who is really into genealogy, the tree thing is not specific enough about who fits in where, although it is certainly pretty.
Last edited by noveltyjunkie; 07-26-2012 at 11:00 PM.