Working chart: Ancestor with siblings, 8-generation

[Virginia Blakelock 0]

 

First screenshot is chart before hand-editing. The second screenshot is of edited chart, with direct lines accented and sibling boxes moved closer to each other. The chart is printed on legal size (8.5x14) paper, landscape orientation. I usually do left-to-right ancestor charts, but I am working on this line from the top down, so right to left is easier to follow.

 

Legal (8.5 x 14.0) paper, landscape orientation.

 

Ancestor Box Chart, Report Options

 

Chart Style:

Orientation: Right to left

Chart Size: 8 generations

Diagram location: 3, 6

Gap between boxes 5, 8

 

Boxes: 152 pixels

Minimal height: 0

Box fill Color white

Frame: None

Box border: black - 1 pixel

 

Lines:

Connector: solid 1 pixel, black

Sibling lines: solid 1 pixel, dark gray

 

Text:

Tahoma, title 9; Names, Data, Manual, 8 R

 

Background and images - none

 

Data Types - none

 

Other:

ID Number

Surety: No threshold and Include blank surety

Text Alignment: Left

Places, none

Names, no caps

Miscellaneous: Include siblings, Remove blank lines

 

Virginia

[Linda Reinfeld 0]

Hi Virginia -

 

I am now working on this chart - Ancestor with siblings, 8 generations.

It's a great way to show families.

 

In my TMG data I use the flag Ancestor Interest=1 to identify my direct ancestors, and it works great. I have an accent where the font is green for directs, and everything works. However, when I translate that to VCF & try to get the chart -ancestor with siblings - no accent is shown. I created a custom flag, called My_Ancestors and that worked the first time! But no matter what I try I can't get the Ancestor Interest flag to work. Is there a problem with that flag? I also noticed in your example the first chart had no color, so presumably you colored your ancestors by hand.

 

Thanks for all the help.

 

Linda Reinfeld

[Virginia Blakelock 0]

Linda -

 

You have found an old and known bug - apparently related to the space between the words in the flag name. I don't think the Descendant Interest flag will work with chart Accents either. The workaround is to make a custom flag without spaces as you did.

 

As I recall the working charts are not accented. They are good for practicing hand-coloring.

 

Virginia