On 5/21/2017 8:43 AM, Jordan Vandenberg wrote: > Thanks for the responses. > > What I am trying to do is take for example, William Marshal and show multiple descents to a colonial ancestor, or a present day person. In this case the descents would be through more than one of his daughters. I do have family tree maker and am somewhat proficient with photoshop, so splicing lines together that way as suggested may work. > > Ian, you suggestion to colour code surnames or even when a line branches from a common ancestor is a good idea. > > I am looking for something that when produced would be visually appealing enough to display, so with the ability to change background colour/design, font, borders, etc. I would be very surprised if there is a satisfactory solution to this problem that does not somehow involve the manual editing of the tree, such as the splicing solution already suggested. Computers are not good at making the aesthetic judgements needed to make a good genealogical table. Stewart Baldwin