Hi, I've been researching for 25 years and use a computer program to store all their details. Is that what you mean? On the computer tree is everyone, 1,290 people (many are just distantly related names). The program stores all your source information, and in fact anything you want. There are several programs to choose from and I like Ancestral File because Family Historian seems complicated to me. The programs are fairly complicated so you have to keep using them daily to get familiar. But once you know how they work you can easily search for anyone.
For printing on paper I break the families up and print just one family at a time. I never attempt printing a whole tree. It seems over complicated and runs over several pages. I like the families broken into bite sized portions!
Does that answer your question?