Re: [LegacyUG] Tree Draw Legacy

[Carol Wait]

You can do this by choosing the youngest person in the family and do an 
ancestor chart.  It is automatic. A descendant report in Legacy and Tree 
Draw (unless there is something under preferences I am missing) show all 
descendants.  I do mostly descendant charts, but when I have a couple 
that is married and one of them has  only one or two ancestors, I import 
the ancestor tree.  You select the root person in both cases and how 
many generations you want to bring in, you can bring only one person in 
or many ( I am not sure what the upper limit would be, I only bring in 
1,2, or 3 generations in depending on how many people are involved).  
The descendant report is automatic as well, but as I said earlier, it 
brings in everyone who is descended from the root person.  It's hard to 
explain when to you when you haven't seen the program. Hope this helps 
though. I have the new v3 of Tree Draw.
Carol

John R. Bayle wrote:
Elizabeth wrote and asked:
 

John,
Does TreeDraw have an option for a direct line descendant chart or
rectangular-shape direct line plus siblings? As a family file grows, a
researcher needs to concentrate on the most important individuals. All
details about everyone related cannot fit in a single Legacy book report.
Generation reports of all descendants are hard to proof-read no matter
   

which
 

method is used to print them.
   

The version 2.2 that I (still) have does not appear to have the ability to
do a direct line descendant chart automatically.  By which I understand you
to mean that instead of showing all the descendants of a person (usually an
ancestor of interest) one shows only the direct line descendants from one
person to a particular descendant, with the option of showing siblings of
each descendent for each generation, but not for the descendants of those
sibs.  Whew!
However, it is a very flexible program and it would be pretty simple, if
a bit tedious to go through and delete all the folks who were off the "main
line".  In fact if you wanted to show that both you and someone else were
both descended from a common ancestor, (for example) you could do
that with TDL better than in FTM, I think.  But then, there are other
ways to do that in FTM and in Legacy too.
That's what I think anyway.  If any more experienced TDL users know of
more capabilities of the program, feel free to speak up (or post up!).
jr
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