Saved Hourglass Charts - editing
Posted: 10 Feb 2019 01:06
10 Feb 2019
I began with PAF on a tiny lap-top in 1989 to suit my travelling plans. My first PC, purchased in 1993 was soon loaded with PAF, but later I followed my friends' advice by changing to TMG.
Despite all of the things I liked about TMG, compiling large charts was a great disappointment. I disliked the appearance of the default settings and found them clumsy to alter.
Being introduced to Generations was the answer. I soon chose to GED-COM my data to Generations, solely for the purpose of producing charts in my preferred format. Simple to compile, super-easy for a reader to follow. With the two programmes, I had the best of both worlds.
Generations struck problems as operating systems advanced. My trusty original desk-top computer still works and I continued with charts on that, while keeping TMG on the new computers purchased over the years.
‘Family Historian’ attracted me greatly when TMG users were alerted to it. I have recently spent hours working through my well-presented hard-copy of ‘Getting the most from Family Historian 5’ and the Tutorials my computer-buddy helped me download, for we 6.2.7 users. My "12 generation saved hourglass chart", is almost the way I want it to be !
Question 1
I notice that the marriage detail sometimes appears in the husband's box, and in other entries, in the wife's box.
May I standardise my chart to always have marriage details in the husband's box ?
Question 2
I am used to being able to select and drag a whole generation up or down to save space. This has allowed me to get a ‘large’ chart just one A4 portrait page, deep. I don't mind how long it is.
I want to ‘set’ the top generation, then drag the whole of the 11 generations below, up to the twelfth, to close a gap there .
Then ‘set’ that, and select the 10th generation and those below, and drag up to close the gap as before.
Having customised my boxes to be a mixture of dimensions (according to the number of people in that generation) my current saved chart has lots of ‘wasted space’ between generatioions.
Thank you SO much, for reading this far !
Patricia NZ
I began with PAF on a tiny lap-top in 1989 to suit my travelling plans. My first PC, purchased in 1993 was soon loaded with PAF, but later I followed my friends' advice by changing to TMG.
Despite all of the things I liked about TMG, compiling large charts was a great disappointment. I disliked the appearance of the default settings and found them clumsy to alter.
Being introduced to Generations was the answer. I soon chose to GED-COM my data to Generations, solely for the purpose of producing charts in my preferred format. Simple to compile, super-easy for a reader to follow. With the two programmes, I had the best of both worlds.
Generations struck problems as operating systems advanced. My trusty original desk-top computer still works and I continued with charts on that, while keeping TMG on the new computers purchased over the years.
‘Family Historian’ attracted me greatly when TMG users were alerted to it. I have recently spent hours working through my well-presented hard-copy of ‘Getting the most from Family Historian 5’ and the Tutorials my computer-buddy helped me download, for we 6.2.7 users. My "12 generation saved hourglass chart", is almost the way I want it to be !
Question 1
I notice that the marriage detail sometimes appears in the husband's box, and in other entries, in the wife's box.
May I standardise my chart to always have marriage details in the husband's box ?
Question 2
I am used to being able to select and drag a whole generation up or down to save space. This has allowed me to get a ‘large’ chart just one A4 portrait page, deep. I don't mind how long it is.
I want to ‘set’ the top generation, then drag the whole of the 11 generations below, up to the twelfth, to close a gap there .
Then ‘set’ that, and select the 10th generation and those below, and drag up to close the gap as before.
Having customised my boxes to be a mixture of dimensions (according to the number of people in that generation) my current saved chart has lots of ‘wasted space’ between generatioions.
Thank you SO much, for reading this far !
Patricia NZ