In terms of drag and drop charting, I think what is referred to is the sort of thing that comes with The Master Genealogist V7 which you can download and try for 30 days, which is what I did and found the charting superb, and intelligent, and you can buy the charting itself separately which will open Legacy files. I will wait for Legacy 7 to see what that contains but if it isn't as good I'll buy it. It allows you to lay the tree out however you want, and copy different parts of other trees onto it, and move and edit individual people, which is very nice.
I wanted to create a tree for my Mum, which included all her family, including her half brothers and sisters (both her parents had multiple marriages), and it was easy to do this, using drag and drop. Of course, normally the ancestors or decendant type charts don't show all these people up, and it seems hard to get a tree with everyone you want to appear on a single chart, however they are (or aren't) directly related to a specific person. For example, it would be nice to be able to produce (via a commercial printer) a huge sheet of paper with everyone on the tree for a family get together so everyone can find and examine their own part of the tree and this seems quite hard, yet it shouldn't be. Certainly the TMG visual chart editing makes this simpler though there is still a bit of work required. This would be my number one request to be able to do, so if anyone knows a program that can take my Legacy file and do this, it would be great to know. I've tried FTM since that does do an 'all-in-one' but it lays it out horribly and can't be edited. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2008 17:44 To: (LegacyUserGroup) Subject: [LegacyUG] a few questions 1) traditional top-down tree (what is it?) 2) drag and drop charting (since I don't do charting I have not idea) 3) number of data files (she lists 2 for Legacy and 35 for RM) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
