"Duncan" <duncantuna@yahoo.com> wrote: >I've always wanted a nice chart that prints out ALL my research on my family >tree. Decendant charts don't do it, since they start at the top of only >one part of your tree .. ancestor charts don't do it, since they leave out >things like uncles, aunts, and cousins. Hourglass charts are just a combo >of those two, but still leave out tons of info. > >I want to chart everyone. Try TreeDraw from Spansoft. It has two advantages over some programs: 1. Once you have created the initial descendant/ancestor chart, you can import the descendants/ancestors of further people. For instance, we are currently creating a chart for a client of the descendants of 10 linked ancestral lines. 2. Once the chart is drawn every element of it is addressable and can be moved around. That allows you to both condense the information into a manageable size and to ensure - if you are not printing on a banner sheet as we do - that information isn't lost at a page break. TreeDraw is available as shareware and is downloadable from the author's site at www.spansoft.org. Regards, Graham.

graham@jigrah.co.uk (Graham Hadfield) wrote in news:3ca5efd8.547519@news.ntlworld.com: > "Duncan" <duncantuna@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>I've always wanted a nice chart that prints out ALL my research on >>my family tree. Decendant charts don't do it, since they start at >>the top of only one part of your tree .. ancestor charts don't do >>it, since they leave out things like uncles, aunts, and cousins. >>Hourglass charts are just a combo of those two, but still leave out >>tons of info. >> >>I want to chart everyone. > > Try TreeDraw from Spansoft. It has two advantages over some > programs: 1. Once you have created the initial descendant/ancestor > chart, you can import the descendants/ancestors of further people. > For instance, we are currently creating a chart for a client of the > descendants of 10 linked ancestral lines. > 2. Once the chart is drawn every element of it is addressable and > can be moved around. That allows you to both condense the > information into a manageable size and to ensure - if you are not > printing on a banner sheet as we do - that information isn't lost at > a page break. TreeDraw is a great program for that *IF* you have a lot of time and patience! I've tried it a couple of times and thrown my hands up in disgust at the difficulty of using the program!! At least you can try it out before buying. For Legacy users, TreeDraw comes as an add-on that will read Legacy files directly without needing to do a gedcom. Sherry.