On 27/05/17 17:51, Jordan Vandenberg wrote: > Thanks everyone for the responses. There are a lot of good suggestions to check out. One question that I have is, when you have ancestors that appear in multiple descents is there a way to have them appear once with multiple branches from them, rather than appearing multiple times. This would require for the lines to intersect. I am not sure if this is something that can only be done if you create the chart manually rather than generating one with software based an already inputted tree. > I suspect manual creation will be needed*. You probably have more constraints than simply showing the lines of descent. At the very least you'll want it to be aesthetically acceptable. In my example that I quoted (4 lines of descent) one particular requirement was to highlight the fact that all these lines were providing brides to 4 successive generations of one male line so I started out by drawing that in at one side and adding the multiple descent beside it. If that hadn't been a constraint an automated layout might have not made that aspect obvious. You might also need to decide what genealogical conventions you need to ignore. Running generations along one axis is probably the last to go but you may well need to choose between avoiding cross-overs and representing the various children of a marriage in chronological sequence. *It might also be a good deal quicker than hunting for a genealogical application that does it for you! -- Hotmail is my spam bin. Real address is ianng at austonley org uk