HELP - TREE - DESCENDANT CHART

The "Descendant" chart will display the current Primary Person, all of their spouses, and then their descendants and their spouses below them.

*This chart takes the longest to create - please be patient!

 

OPTIONS:

1. GENERATIONS = Choose how many generations you want to go down:

• 1 = Children.
• 2 = Grandchildren.
• 3 = Great-Grandchildren.
  
• 4 = 2x Great-Grandchildren.

2. BOX SIZES = Choose what box sizes you want to display the descendants in:

• Optimize = Variable box sizes to minimize the amount of pages.

*The next generation down will never be a larger box size then the one before it.

• Large = Every generation will have large box sizes (4 per row).

• Medium = Every generation will have medium box sizes (4 per row).

• Small = Every generation will have small box sizes (8 per row).

3. PHOTOS ? = Choose if you want the chart to display profile photos.

• Yes = Will show profile photos.
• No = Won't display profile photos.

*Flags will not display on this chart.

4. SORT BY = Determines how the descendants are listed.

• Family = Generations grouped by their immediate families (Same color).
• DOB = Descendants in each generation will be listed in birth order. 

5. CREATE = Click this once you have the options set to create the chart.

 

 

HOW TO READ:

The chart will display the Primary Person and all their spouses at the top of the page.  Each generation of descendants will be displayed below them.

Each generation is separated by a title row showing the count and how to determine relationships.

This chart relies on color coordination from the descendant design scheme along with ID references.

1. Descendant spouses will show below their name in the gray range (A). This will automatically adjust to the number of spouses they have. The smaller the box size and the more spouses will result in less information displayed.  

*Print the index to get full details for each ID number on the chart.

2. Each descendant will have (3) ID numbers.

• Red = Their unique ID (D).
• Blue = Their Father's ID (B).
• Purple = Their Mother's ID (C).

You can trace the parent ID's up to the previous generation to see who they where. 

The color coordination will carry down from generation to generation to make this process easy.

Non-biological children will display an " * " after their parent's ID number. 

3. Each descendant will also show what # child they are in that immediate family (E). This is helpful for further down generations to differentiate when siblings and cousins have the same color.

*See CHART OPTIONS for more details on editing the default chart.