I think you are asking for the impossible if you're looking for a
program to do this automatically. If you were only dealing with one
cousin marriage or one widower marrying his deceased wife's sister or
whatever, then it could work. But I have first cousin and second
cousin marriages all over the place. To rearrange to nicely and
clearly display one of them makes more of a mess of the others.
A program like TreeDraw gives you the flexibility to move the tree
around quite easily once you've learnt how it works. But someone has
to decide which cousin marriage gets displayed clearly and which
don't. I think some duplicates on a complex tree are inevitable - and
it's clear enough if they're flagged as duplicates.
Cathy
At 11:15 PM 15/05/2006, you wrote:
I would be interested in advice and suggestions on using a family tree
drawing program with Legacy. I want to be able to produce basic
descendent trees - i.e., nothing fancy or picturesque, simply the basic
genealogical information displayed like an organisation chart. I have
been looking at TreeDraw, which seems to do this and works directly with
Legacy. However, there seems to be one limitation, and I wonder if there
is any program that provides a solution.
I need to be able to show cousin marriages, but these are shown in
TreeDraw by displaying the person twice in different parts of the tree:
once as a son or daughter and once as a spouse. This fails to bring out
the connections that run across the family. As far as I can see, the
only way to cope with this is to manually (and laboriously) redraw the
tree by moving elements and lines around. This seems to me to be such a
basic and common occurrence in families that there ought to be a way of
automatically generating the correct tree: the program ought to be able
to recognise that someone has married a cousin and should draw the tree
correctly.
Of course, it would also help if a tree drawing program could recognise
when a man marries or cohabits with a widow's sister - again, not an
uncommon relationship, despite the prohibited degrees of kinship. This
is a version of the same general difficulty tree drawing programs seem
to have in recognising when the same person appears in two different
positions in the tree.
Does anyone know of an obvious solution to this basic and very common
problem?
Thanks in anticipation of your help,
John Scott
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