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What I like about GenoPro is its visual clarity (now that I've broken down the 1000+ ancestry to several pages)
Using vertical differences based on date of birth, for siblings and everybody else, gives me a good idea of their relative position on time scale.
I have tried to picture individuals lifespan by the height of his/hers age as the box shows the 8 handles other graphical programs use for the purpose of strethcing. This does not work in GenoPro?
If I get it done somehow, will the result be less clear? Would a vertical line be enough?
What I would like to see easily is, who were alive at certain time!
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This would be useful with a timeline as well. The issue of timeline was brought up elsewhere in the forum.
Danny
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I also find that using a time display is useful for working out possible family relationships. One possibility for displaying a lifeline is to create a text box and use this below the sign for the individual.
The text box does not have to include any text; You can resize it using the cursor, as you want; you can change the colour of both the line and interior of the box to create a distinctive feature; you can also change the thickness of the line if necessary.
Having created one 'life line' this can be copied and pasted to other individuals and then resized.
The only disadvantage is that it is not attached to the individual, so any change of position might mean that the 'life line' has to be moved separately - obviously not needed with a suitable selection and move
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The timeline is something to be done. GenoPro will support multiple types of objects in the "GenoMap". For instance, one "GenoMap" could be a timeline for one individual (or a group of individuals).
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i dont know if this helps but this is how i invision it
please excuse the crapy mspaint skills
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You can create the sort of diagram you describe using text boxes. This is not so useful as having GenoPro create them for you but you can see the effect.
Personally I find the use of date markers very useful in defining relationships between families. I do not finf the timeline so useful as it makes the diagram look very complicated. I use colour coding to indicate whether the information relates to a birth (red), marriage (green) or death (blue). The colours relate to the colours on UK certificates and the FreeBMD site.
We need to experiment with what is here to help decide what is going to be useful. However different people have different ideas
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I do not find the timeline so useful as it makes the diagram look very complicated.
I agree with you. I don't think that the timeline is really that useful.
I use the colors to see the generations in my family tree. It is often that you can find cousins who have 20 years differance between them. Personally I have a cousin who is in my mthers age and we have a differance of 31 years. In the timeline we will be on different scale although we are in the same family generation.
For that reason I use different color for each generation. Moreover when I build my own tree I'm trying to put same family generation on the same "line".
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I believe a timeline would be most useful. Particularly, if one can associate dates with well known events. My tree goes back to 870 - that is over a millenium ago. If I can associate the dates with the events, some information may make more sense. For example, who left what country, and why, would be easier to understand if I knew a war had taken place in that region at that time.
Closer to our time, a timeline is useful to understand where different parts of the tree actually belong. Given that there are many branches, and each of these branches have many leaves, the tree is not aligned between generations. If I can have the individuals set up in a particular date-associated horizontal level, I can get a better visual understanding of who may have known whom, and who may have been under similar circumstances.
In my particular tree the issue is more critical, as many times there are references in books as to a person being a descendent of another. However, there is no explanation of exactly how many generations previously is the anscestor. I need to find this out when someone lived from different sources. Again, lining up individuals in the date-associated horizontal line would help in understanding what exactly (or nearly exactly) is the relationship.
Danny
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