Re: [LegacyUG] Tree

[Joan Kemp]

Dear Jerry, Basically, I want a chart which shows all - and I mean all - my relatives  (not sure what you mean by a 'fan chart') In practice, because I have 2534 individuals in 727 families (from Legacy test export), this is not practical on 1 sheet of paper or on one computer screen. A long time ago, I exported a gedcom of all individuals fromLlegacy & opened it in Genpro.  GenoPro is a bit like the old 'MacDraw' where you drag icons around. You can easily organise positions on the chart or select any group of individuals by drawing a box around them and copy and paste them onto another page (chart).  I set up one page with my direct ancestors - a classic diagram (chart) with myself at the bottom joined with lines to two parents above, 4 grandparents above that etc. My mother's maiden name is Skeet - (George Skeet married Rosa Mayo), so I created a page with all the Skeet family.  When the Skeet branch got too big, I split off the Mayo branch and copied them to another page. George Skeet's mother was Ellen Reavell, (Victorians - large families) so I have Reavell page as well. Etc. The lovely thing is that I can create hyperlinks from the main tree to the subsidiary trees.  So if I click on 'George Skeet' on the main page, I move to 'George Skeet' on the Skeet page, then if I click again, I go to the same George Skeet on the Reavell page, another click brings me back to the main page (the icons in blue below are hyperlinks) Essentially, I have created a large chart of all my ancestors, their sibs and their sibs' offspring, but split into manageable chunks.  The two main advantages of this over Legacy are (a) I can visualise how the families fit together and how generations match (or don't) and (b) it is very easy to select a family group and either copy them to a new chart of print them - usually to a pdf file. I've copied an example of the tabs & a chart (with hyperlinks in blue) - a diagram being worth 1000 words! Would that one could do something similar in Legacy. All the best Joan On 22/08/2011 02:38, Jerry wrote: Hi Joan. When you first asked this question, I wasn't sure what you meant and I still don't know. You said: Is there any way in Legacy of contructing a chart which shows all relatives from a given line rather than just ancestors. I can do this trivially by exporting data to GenoPro, but have never managed in Legacy. Joan I hate to be a pest, but can you explain what you mean by that? Are you talking about a variation of a fan chart that shows both ancestors and descendants? Sorry to be a bother, but I was just a little confused and it might be something I would be interested in. Jerry - MerriamFamilyTree.org On 8/21/2011 8:00 PM, Joan Kemp wrote: I have to say that this is probably Legacy's major, and most serious, drawback. I have all the different branches of my tree set up in Geno Pro (rather like tabbed Excel spreadsheets, with neat hyperlinks back to my 'master' tree), and although its a faff to keep the two programmes (Legacy& GenoPro) in tandem, anytime a relative wants to see where they fit it, I can print the relevant branch to a pdf file& send it off to them - which works brilliantly. I also find it very helpful to look at a real, visual, 'family tree', with all the relatives, on a screen (can zoom around) and see how the generations match and link together. All the best Joan On 22/08/2011 00:07, Ron Ferguson wrote: Joan, Apologies for my last response, I misread your post. However the answer is still, I am afraid, no. Tree Draw has been suggested as a possibility, but it would take an awful lot of messing around to get what you want ( if at all) Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Joan Kemp Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 9:31 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Tree Is there any way in Legacy of contructing a chart which shows all relatives from a given line rather than just ancestors. I can do this trivially by exporting data to GenoPro, but have never managed in Legacy. 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