>Something that would draw ot a family tree to include all the siblings in a >boxes on a family tree design? A Descendant Box Chart in Ver 2 is evidently not what you have in mind? The problem I struggle with (and I am sure all family tree programmers) is that there can be any number of children in a family and you can get constrained with paper size. Therefore, the Descendant Box chart shows children vertically where it will roll to the next page if number of children exceeds the space on page. I will try to improve this in Ver 3. Also intend on a Wall Chart type where there will be less constraint due to paper space since you then tape the next page to the right. But these type of Wall charts won't be good for books. >Some sort of Data page that could serve as a title page or an introductory set >of notes for a whole family - to save putting the same notes into all family >member files. I'd like to be able to have a sort of "all this family came to >-- from .. in .. because of .. searches reveal they were related to .. >employed .. where .. and blah blah" Well..... I think that there are things to cover what you want to do. I would have to know more about what you really wanted to do to offer a suggestion. For example, you could enter some text into a Document and tie that as a source to any number of people. However, that would be more viewed a source - such as a "will" or text extract of some source document. If you are talking about an "event" in a person's life - such as a family migration you will likely have to do some copying of notes (in an "immigration" event). There are "couple" events which are tied to two people and the data is not duplicated though it shows up on both husband and wife list of events. I had considered a "family" event for a time where an event would be tied to parents and all children, but after some long contemplation on this (even started programming it) I changed my mind. Became too complex - lots of issues - for example suppose you had a family "immigration" event - but the family immigrated before ALL children were born, then you create more complexities. However, there is now (Ver 3) the capability to copy and past events from one person to another, so you could duplicate the entire event quickly and not just the note (clipboard copy and paste). >Some more detailed way of organising sources into sub sets - One reference >book, then to different pages, or a header "Birth Cert" and then possible >different options - e.g. obtained date ? My source list is runing into >hundreds of entries now and, I'm worried it'll go bust, never mind the time it >takes. Yes. A definite improvement that has already been implemented in Ver 3. You have Source References (such as the book) and Source Details (the pages in the book). This way it has an heiarchy with some structure. Also you will be able to tie multiple sources to each individual or event. You can tie the Reference, the Source or even a Document as a source to an event or individual. ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com