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I'm trying to setup my family tree in GenoPro in a certain way and can't see how to do it. Perhaps you could tell me how to achieve it or, if it's not possible, you could add the functionality...
I have a family tree with a dozen or so people 'below' my parents (i.e. their children, grandchildren, 'son in-laws' etc). Above each parent, their half of the tree extends upward and outward. Up until now, I've displayed all people on one GenoMap but I'm reaching the point where I want to split parts of the tree off onto separate GenoMaps. I've looked into the 'Help' and discovered the method of moving a branch of a tree to a separate GenoMap while keeping a hyperlink between them. However, that wouldn't allow me to do the following.
I want two GenoMaps, one with my Father's side of the family plus his descendents and a second GenoMap with my Mother's side of the family and her descendents i.e. my parents and their descendents would be duplicated in both GenoMaps. I could do this easily by cutting and pasting one half of the tree to a new GenoMap BUT (and this is the important bit), I would have to maintain the duplicated part (i.e. make any future changes) in two GenoMaps. I would want both copies of my parents and their descendents (i.e. the duplicated people) to be updated when I edit them in either GenoMap. So, if I change a detail in one instance of, say, my Dad, the same update will be seen in the second GenoMap. Also, if I add a new descendent to that duplicated branch, I'd want the new addition to appear on the other GenoMap automatically.
I'm hoping you're going to say this is already possible and tell me how (or point me in the right direction in the Help file) but if not, please consider adding the functionality as I think it would be extremely useful and popular.
Edited: Thursday, January 10, 2008 by
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At the moment, what you are asking cannot be done in GenoPro. We are working on a collaboration module, and one feature we want to implement is to separate the data from the display. We want to provide a mechanism for the same family tree to be displayed differently. We don't have a solution to this yet, however we are not giving up.
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If you have not got too many individuals to work on at present then try using hyperlinks on each one. The beauty of these is that editing in one frame alters all occurrences. I am not sure if it might lead to future complications but it works for me in a limited fashion.
Move the parents to the separate Genomap and then relink as Spouse. You can tick the Exclude from Report box on the Summary tag of the Marriage menu to stop the marriage being reported twice - if you use the reports. Repeat for children.
An example of this is on http://familytrees.genopro.com/appleshaw/SussexSteers/. If you can find James Steer b.1810 I have attempted to show the movement of the family to different places (ie Genomap=location). Different children were present at different locations.
Edited: Friday, January 11, 2008 by
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At the moment, what you are asking cannot be done in GenoPro. We are working on a collaboration module, and one feature we want to implement is to separate the data from the display. We want to provide a mechanism for the same family tree to be displayed differently. We don't have a solution to this yet, however we are not giving up. I'm sorry to hear it's not possible yet but happy to hear you're working on it  Another example that I didn't mention before but may help clarify the sort of thing I'd want to do is to have a main GenoMap displaying the whole family tree but have other GenoMaps with only certain parts of it (e.g. my Mothers side of the family or my Fathers) i.e. parts of the same tree displayed in various ways on different GenoMaps. It sounds like the thing you're working on might well allow for this - if not, please consider adding it in as I'm sure it would be very useful to many people. appleshaw (1/10/2008)
If you have not got too many individuals to work on at present then try using hyperlinks on each one. The beauty of these is that editing in one frame alters all occurrences. I am not sure if it might lead to future complications but it works for me in a limited fashion. Thanks for the suggestion appleshaw but I think I'll leave it for now. It sounds like it might be more trouble than it's worth for me at the present especially if they're working on a better solution.
Edited: Friday, January 11, 2008 by
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Often it is the way we look at the situation, a little change of thinking will allow you to use the software as it exists.When we have a famaily, grandparents....parents....children and then one child leaves the nest to join with a partner from another nest. The Genomaps properly allow for this representation. When we look at the Genomap from which the member leaves, she/he is there as a hypelink to say ...continued on another page. Now it might be great to have seventeen generations on one page, but it is most impractical, given the standard paper and screen sizes we use. Also, it may be nice to have your Mother Father and their Children , together with their parents on the one page, but with split Families common place, it is best that the reader only ventures to genomaps that will not cause them pain to read. I recommend you look at the Family evolving from Genomap to Genomap, and for the few occasions you need to show the amalgamation of maps, just copy and paste the information to a new Genomap for that purpose. If Genopro allow us to select more than 1 Genomap at a time for reporting or printing, that would allow me to adequately present my Family to readers.
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I agree with previous writer,If children are sons or daughters of the Paternal type of counting of descending line so they have to be shown at the father's GenoMap if maternal type - at the mother's. I encountered with such a problem and revised my own logic of handling information and structuring of the tree. For example the tree could be divided by Father and Mother as first writer did or (as I did) by my family line and my wife's line. In this way the question concerns another set of generations but since all Genealogical trees made according to the principles of inheritance we can see in which line individual has to be inserted.
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