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Displaying exponentially growing family tree in practical way?
There are many ways in which a pedigree can be displayed, and there is always going to be a balance between the clarity and amount of information you can reasonably display. There's little point in ...
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Viewing Family Group Sheet using Ancestry.com?
In April 2016, as far as I am aware, the Family Group Sheet view has not been reinstated on the New Ancestry. However, you can access a Family Group Sheet as before by using the following URL ...
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Displaying exponentially growing family tree in practical way?
Printing all your ancestors for over 200 years on a single A4 sheet is not possible. Harry Vervet provided an excellent answer including the H-tree. I believe, however, that this format is hard to ...
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How to display sperm/egg donors or surrogates on a family tree?
There is no one correct method of displaying these types of complex relationships. However, for health professionals there are some conventions that are used when producing a genogram.
The following ...
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Displaying exponentially growing family tree in practical way?
You could break away from tree-type diagrams and use an Ahnentafel Report.
Most genealogical programs or online stores will produce one of these that can be output as a PDF.
Starting from an ...
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Working on pre-16th century German genealogy
There are a lot of things going on in this question. I'll try to untangle a few of them.
First, the word "ben" is Hebrew for "son of" (see eg https://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/...
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Software/tool to generate 'trial' family trees?
If you have Microsoft Powerpoint, you can open a new presentation and then search for "family tree" and they give you 8 different templates that you can choose from:
These use "Smart Art" so the ...
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Seeking software which displays (yet) unrelated persons and family trees for overview
You could use Genelines by Progeny Software.
It can produce almost exactly the chart you're asking for in its full descendant chart:
You would create your input data in another genealogy program and ...
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How do I visibly make people aware that a connection is only tenuous and further research is needed?
Take a look at these Downloadable Image Icons for On-Line Family Trees provided on the blog Genealogy Junkie. Sue Griffith created these to mark which lines were verified by DNA research and which ...
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Is there a space to collaborate to create a single family tree (for a surname)?
Several collaborative family tree websites do exist, such as:
WikiTree
WeRelate
OneGreatFamily
Geni
Family Pursuit
FamilySearch Family Tree
The problem with collaborative trees in my view is that ...
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Adding second set of parents in an online tree at Ancestry?
UPDATED VERSION:
Go to your family tree
Click the person you want to add to
Click "Profile"
At the top right of the profile it should have a "tools" button and an "Edit" button
Click "Edit" and three ...
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Finding Romanian ancestors from Sibiu, Gușterița?
Romanian vital records are stored in two types of institution:
The Town Halls, for (usually) records younger than 100 years; and
The National Archives, and churches, for (usually) records older than ...
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Software/tool to generate 'trial' family trees?
I have personally become a fan of LucidChart.com for anything I need to rough out or even formally do for smaller trees.
It has a few tree / family tree / genealogy charts that can handle small ...
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Making family chart with everyone in it?
Did you try Gramps' relationship graph (reports/graph/relationship graph)? If you want to see everybody in your database ("select all") make sure you set filter to "entire database" in the report ...
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Tracing family tree if grandparents moved to UK from Pakistan?
In the absence of a more specific question about your genealogy and family history, I recommend starting your research at the free FamilySearch.org site.
There you will find a Pakistan Genealogy page ...
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Is person who has lost family last name still considered Direct descendant
At the English Stack Exchange I found a definition for "direct descendant" at https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/61559/meaning-of-direct-descendant-as-opposed-to-indirect-descendant:...
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On FamilySearch, is it possible to find how I am related to someone more than 15/16 generations back?
If the Relative Finder app is limited to 16 generations, it is likely to be a limitation in FamilySearch Family Tree's API. The obvious clumsy workaround is to go back as far as FamilySearch will let ...
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Software/tool to generate 'trial' family trees?
Have you had a look at the SVG Generator by Tony Proctor? It maybe overkill for what you want BUT it will give you the graphical interface that you want and also allows you to record vital information ...
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Seeking computer-based family-tree software for Mac/PC?
There are several programs that should meet your needs. The one I'm familiar with is Family Tree Maker.
I have used it on the Mac for years. It had a separately done PC version. The company that ...
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Are there any tools that will display a complete tree
There is only one programme that I know of that will do this and that is Family Historian However as the comments say with 1500 people in your tree this is likely to be unwieldy to view and scroll ...
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Viewing Family Group Sheet using Ancestry.com?
Ancestry has reinstated the Family Group Sheet. See Ancestry Product update: Family Group Sheets are back! (Posted on the by Ancestry Team on June 26, 2018 in the category Website) for details.
Note ...
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Modeling family with unknown relationships?
Until you have evidence to establish a specific parent/child relationship, you should not link the people together.
If you are "quite certain" they were all related, then there must be a reason why ...
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Interpreting the Trussell Family Tree
The Trussell family tree correctly splits the two main lines of medieval Trussells, that helpfully bore different heraldic coats, but it is incomplete. For example the William Trussell who married ...
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How can I create a visual representation for a particular surname (and husbands/wifes) only?
You want a graphical representation of all descendants and their spouses in a single view. Apparently, opening collapsed branches detracts from your intended use of the family view of your tree at ...
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Viewing Family Group Sheet using Ancestry.com?
In May 2019 it seems to be possible to access the family group sheet feature through a person's profile page once again.
It is the bottom choice on the pulldown from the tree name at upper left of ...
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Updating Surname Chart of Male-Line descendants in form of tree?
A tree like this is likely to be a creative and original interpretation of the artist and researcher. The artist/researcher was trying to paint a beautiful picture of the direct line, starting from ...
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Finding ancestors on hand-drawn family tree?
Your example shows why, despite all the efforts of Ancestry and other companies to accommodate their customers who want to search by name, searching by name alone is not an effective technique for ...
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Ancestry showing wrong connection?
You could try using the Edit Relationships option to remove any incorrect relationships. It is found at top right of the Person page under the Edit pulldown.
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How do spatial analysis (GIS) and genealogy overlap?
I have to add my twopennyworth here for public viewing. One of my research difficulties, when making a case for whether two named people are the same or different, is the lack of appropriate ...
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