Trent, You can try the shareware version of TreeDraw or buy $40 download-only Legacy TreeDraw to see if it meets your requirements. Extensive editing may be required to get the desired results. Small charts of non-bio parents could be saved as images and added to traditional charts.
A couple of $30 genealogy programs have automatic all-names box charts but they are not as easy to read as traditional ancestor charts starting with ONE person and the "selected" parents for each child. It is misleading to show non-bio parents "as if" they are bio parents in genealogy charts and reports. One program allows multiples of custom details to be printed on wall charts so a "Memo" can explain "Mary's son" who has a different surname in a descendant wall chart for his stepfather's family. Select the reports and charts you want for OUTPUT and then plan data entry to suit. Editing of the wording may be required for non-bio relationships in an ancestor report. Living people are usually recorded in blended families and individuals orphaned before 1900 are usually with their bio parents in my files. I've found several of the six children from an 1848 guardianship document in the 1851 census but a couple of them may have lived in a household with a different surname. I don't like reading ancestor reports with long notes. Grandmother's life goes from 1890-1980 then the next note is about a great-grandparent who lived 1850-1900 in a completely different part of the world. Several direct ancestors in my files were raised in blended households. A minister was a very kind father to a widow with six children so one branch of notes starts with his wife to include all her children. One of their own son became a doctor and politician mentioned frequently in Canadian history books. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trent" > Is there a way to show both Adoptive and Biological Parents on an Ancestor > Report? On any report or chart? Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
