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www.vicgum.asn.au Super Charts Tips and Tricks for Reunion and Generations

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Page 1: Www.vicgum.asn.au Super Charts Tips and Tricks for Reunion and Generations

www.vicgum.asn.au

Super Charts

Tips and Tricks

for Reunion and Generations

Page 2: Www.vicgum.asn.au Super Charts Tips and Tricks for Reunion and Generations

www.vicgum.asn.au

Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004

Target audience?

• Family Reunion - sharing the information• trying to get missing details from

relatives• can see what's missing• where they fit in• special occasion eg birthday, wedding• publication eg book

Page 3: Www.vicgum.asn.au Super Charts Tips and Tricks for Reunion and Generations

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Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004

Target audience?

• website• CD• images to use in your genealogy

program –multimedia• Email chart as attachment

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Fonts

• fancy or plain - who are you aiming it to?• font size - granny with the glasses• beware of redrawing orientation

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Colours

• coloured boxes: generations, groups - ancestors, descendants, one generation, all

• coloured borders• shadows• no borders

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Coloured Lines

• lines of descent• relationships

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Bold

• 1st line of text - easier to see changes in surname

• larger fonts for name, smaller for details

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What details to include

• name only• all - useful to see what information is

missing - not so good if you have a lot a small children in the tree

• relationships• pictures

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Orientation

• Top to bottom - typical form• Waterfall - most efficient use of space for

Descendant charts

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Orientation

• Left to right - depending on the contents will either:

- use as little vertical space as possible as it moves across the chart, or

- fan upward and downward equally as it moves across the chart

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Positioning Boxes - Dragging

• Single• Branch• Global• Generation• Generation+

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Layering

• Transparent• Opaque

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Images

• pictures - preferred or selection• scanned documents such as certificates,

maps• could be a chart you have already

created, saved as a graphic and added as an image

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Images

• Description and Memo in Reunion – useful particularly when creating web files if include option include Web Media Pages

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Time Line Charts

• placing selected people with a particular event

• customising “family” events

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Sharing Charts by Email

• share a chart as a graphic file attachment to an email

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Web Media Pages

• All pictures in Multimedia can appear as thumbnails if web media pages are created