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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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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