Super Charts

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Super Charts

• Tips and Tricks
• for Reunion and Generations

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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

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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