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Family Tree Set Up
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Alison | Report | 18 Sep 2008 13:02 |
Thanks all and apologies for so late a reply. I really am such a novice that I forgot that I had to go to the community page to pick up new replies. D'oh! |
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Chica in the sun ☼ | Report | 14 Sep 2008 23:12 |
Ali & Heather I was just joking about the 5,000 names! I have only a tiny fraction of that amount on mine! |
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Ron | Report | 14 Sep 2008 17:12 |
I've nudged the thread up for you, it tells you all about software. |
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Heather | Report | 14 Sep 2008 11:48 |
Alison, big is not better - dont worry about numbers, concern yourself with quality. A string of names back to the Domesday Book is meaningless without each person having some flesh put on them. |
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Alison | Report | 14 Sep 2008 09:53 |
Thanks to you both for your help and encouragement Heather and Chica. Though I must say 5000 names seems a long way off right now... :-) |
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Heather | Report | 13 Sep 2008 23:34 |
Nite kid. |
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Chica in the sun ☼ | Report | 13 Sep 2008 23:33 |
I´ve also got FTM which is good, but I quite like this GR tree and find it easy to use. I shouldn´t worry about it looking messy Ali, as long as they are correct. There´ll always be bits going off in all directions, we´ve all got that! Mind I wouldn´t say no to a few more names on mine to make it look even crazier. And be consoled Ali ´cos it´ll look even worse when you´ve got 5,000 names in there! |
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Heather | Report | 13 Sep 2008 23:19 |
Well, most of us have Family treemaker. You can get the 2006 or who do you think you are versions quite cheaply now with a months ancestry thrown in. Try amazon or twr computing. Look at the charts of the various programs on twr. |
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Alison | Report | 13 Sep 2008 23:12 |
Thanks Heather, just looked on your tips - very helpful. |
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Heather | Report | 13 Sep 2008 23:05 |
Read the Tips for Newbies. |
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Alison | Report | 13 Sep 2008 22:05 |
Thanks Chica. I wasn't really that clear,was I? |
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Chica in the sun ☼ | Report | 13 Sep 2008 21:46 |
I´m not quite sure what you mean Ali. It is not possible to change the "look" of the tree on Genes as it is preset by GR. Could you have clicked the wrong box while adding spouses or siblings? Play around with it abit. Or give us an example of one of your strange branches and perhaps we can understand what has happened. You could of course delete what you have done and then re do it, checking carefully that each entry has gone in the correct relationships. Get back to us if you can´t sort it out. We all had to begin somewhere and it takes time to understand how the boxes work. |
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Alison | Report | 13 Sep 2008 21:19 |
Hi! I'm very new and was wondering if anyone can tell me how to change the look of the family tree. Mine seems to be set up quite strangely with both branches of the family going in the same direction and spouses linked in the same direction as siblings! |