One more thought - my 23 year old son was never interested much in genealogy until he saw the fan chart. Maybe this is just what you need to pique your grandson's interest.
Dede Holden On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Dede Holden <deanbuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Chy Maen <chym...@start.ca> wrote: > >> /This question is similar to Diane's.... >> >> I'd like to print out a simple Pedigree line of Direct Line Ancestors >> (grandparents, no siblings etc.) -- the same sort of chart that appears on >> screen when one hits "pedigree" on the task bar. I did a trial run at this >> several times but when it comes to "preview" that mini-printer on the >> preview screen flies out what looks like hundreds of pieces of paper and >> after waiting a full five minutes the last time it was till tossing out >> pages and not '"complete".... Compared to some of your DB's mine is >> miniscule (only a bit over 20,000 folks) and not all direct line >> grandparents of course, tho some lines are back to the 700's (I know many of >> you are way past that too). >> >> So I wondered if anyone might tell me how to do this - horizontally, not >> vertically (have done those okay) using ordinary 8 1/2 x 11 " paper (glue it >> all together later????) >> Somewhere while reading "tips" I saw and now can't find instructions for a >> circular pedigree chart which was suggested as a good way of finding those >> straight line ancestors whose lines are shorter than the rest thus need >> working on - made sense but I thought the straight horizontal line Pedigree >> might show the same and I wanted to do this for my grandson (get him >> interested in history!) - and also for me to just be able to visualize >> things better. >> >> Thank you for any assisance. >> Kate >> >> To answer the last part of your question about the circular pedigree >> chart... > > Across the top menu in Legacy, choose Reports, then scroll down to Legacy > Charting. This will open the Legacy Charting program. Choose the Full Fan > report. I love this report for showing where the holes are. I've printed > the pages, and taped them together to hang over my filing cabinet, so I can > quickly see at a glance where my research ends. I do love the color coding, > so I can tell which line I'm seeing. > > Hope this helps. > > Dede Holden >
