a set of boxes to allow me to form a family tree

[david j hawley]

I am attempting to be able to form a set of boxes that will allow me to
construct a in 'word'family tree

 

[Mary Sauer]

Try autoshapes.
There are examples here in other Office products, might give you an idea.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=TC&Query=family+tree