I would be interested in advice and suggestions on using a family tree drawing program with Legacy. I want to be able to produce basic descendent trees - i.e., nothing fancy or picturesque, simply the basic genealogical information displayed like an organisation chart. I have been looking at TreeDraw, which seems to do this and works directly with Legacy. However, there seems to be one limitation, and I wonder if there is any program that provides a solution. I need to be able to show cousin marriages, but these are shown in TreeDraw by displaying the person twice in different parts of the tree: once as a son or daughter and once as a spouse. This fails to bring out the connections that run across the family. As far as I can see, the only way to cope with this is to manually (and laboriously) redraw the tree by moving elements and lines around. This seems to me to be such a basic and common occurrence in families that there ought to be a way of automatically generating the correct tree: the program ought to be able to recognise that someone has married a cousin and should draw the tree correctly. Of course, it would also help if a tree drawing program could recognise when a man marries or cohabits with a widow's sister - again, not an uncommon relationship, despite the prohibited degrees of kinship. This is a version of the same general difficulty tree drawing programs seem to have in recognising when the same person appears in two different positions in the tree. Does anyone know of an obvious solution to this basic and very common problem? Thanks in anticipation of your help, John Scott
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