Genealogy Chat

Well like many on GR i'm doing a tree of my birth family,unfortunately (short of DNA testing) my fathers side will remain empty,so my tree looks like a victim of a severe gale,empty on one side and leaning beyond the laws of physics on the other side. Glen

Richard that sounds wonderful wish I was that clever

Depends on what software you're using - I use Family Tree Maker and in that, if you go into a tree view, you can drag the individual boxes around to lay out any shape you like. You click on a box and hold the mouse button down, and can then move a whole branch. If you hold the Control key down first, you can move a single box. When you have your desired layout, you can save the customised view which you can then open again in the future. If you have interlinked relationships (such as cousins marrying), by default FTM will show each interlinked person twice. By dragging the boxes around, you can place these repeated names on top of each other so that when printed, all the inter-relationships are shown correctly. I managed to arrange my tree with 6 generations of ancestors so that they all fitted on an A3 sheet, and is still readable when printed out. Richard

Mine's a monkey puzzle tree Jay

I havent got a tree, i've got a small thicket , in dire need of coppicing! jess x

spagetti anyone? or the knitting after the cats have been in it so many first & second cousin marriages - and an uncle in law marrying his nephew's sister... and this is just ONE branch LOL so much for bicycles - they didn't get about much did they!

Mines more of a bramble patch... or possibly a wiring diagram for a very complicated piece of machinery! L

Thank you all for the laugh. Richard.. Sounds Great, but unfortunately not my program. Will hunt around though.