Super Charts
Tips and Tricks
for Reunion and Generations
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Target audience?
• Family Reunion - sharing the information
• trying to get missing details from
relatives
• can see what's missing
• where they fit in
• special occasion eg birthday, wedding
• publication eg book
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Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004
Target audience?
• website
• CD
• images to use in your genealogy
program –multimedia
• Email chart as attachment
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Fonts
• fancy or plain - who are you aiming it to?
• font size - granny with the glasses
• beware of redrawing orientation
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Colours
• coloured boxes: generations, groups -
ancestors, descendants, one generation,
all
• coloured borders
• shadows
• no borders
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Coloured Lines
• lines of descent
• relationships
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Bold
• 1st line of text - easier to see changes in
surname
• larger fonts for name, smaller for details
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What details to include
• name only
• all - useful to see what information is
missing - not so good if you have a lot a
small children in the tree
• relationships
• pictures
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Orientation
• Top to bottom - typical form
• Waterfall - most efficient use of space for
Descendant charts
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Orientation
• Left to right - depending on the contents
will either:
- use as little vertical space as possible as
it moves across the chart, or
- fan upward and downward equally as it
moves across the chart
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Positioning Boxes - Dragging
• Single
• Branch
• Global
• Generation
• Generation+
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Layering
• Transparent
• Opaque
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Images
• pictures - preferred or selection
• scanned documents such as certificates,
maps
• could be a chart you have already
created, saved as a graphic and added
as an image
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Images
• Description and Memo in Reunion –
useful particularly when creating web
files if include option include Web Media
Pages
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Time Line Charts
• placing selected people with a particular
event
• customising “family” events
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Sharing Charts by Email
• share a chart as a graphic file
attachment to an email
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Web Media Pages
• All pictures in Multimedia can appear as
thumbnails if web media pages are
created
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Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004