If charts are important for a family book or you want a wall chart for a family gathering, it is best to consider chart output *during* the early data entry. GEDCOM transfer from Legacy to any other program includes Master Locations [city, county, state, country] that may be too long for "compact" charts or include place holder commas. TreeDraw also shows place holder commas for areas that have no county.
Medium size family charts with pictures, occupations or medical information are far more interesting than "basic" charts with name bbbb-dddd. Legacy 4, 5 and 6 have a problem with the relationship chart for descendants of a common male ancestor with children from multiple marriages. I've recently added a Saskatchewan man with children from three marriages to my files. The Legacy customer who discovered the problem was calculating the relationship from first and third marriages of his common ancestor but there were no children from the second marriage. The best way to show cousin marriages is with a direct line box chart from a chosen ancestor to a selected descendant. eg. Queen Victoria and Albert had two different common ancestors according to the sources I used to enter their descendants so there are two different lines to the young people in the royal family. If all known ancestors are entered in a file for several generations, it is possible to create a circle or fan chart with some non-Legacy products. Home printed charts need a minimum number of pages with overlap to be taped together. Commercially printed charts must be planned to fit the paper size used by the equipment available at the service. They are usually a wide banner shape. Hand-made family charts and those edited box by box take a lot of time and need to be redone as new details become available. One extreme example was a needlework wall hanging created by a cousin with the wrong ancestor names. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott, John" 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. 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
