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Studly, Esq. paulstudly@studly.net Cleveland/Chesterland, Ohio 440-829-9207 Verizon Cell IRS Circular 230 - Any tax advice contained in the body of this correspondence was not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, by the recipient for the purpose of avoiding penalties that may be imposed under the Internal Revenue Code or applicable state or local tax law provisions. -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of James Ronnerud Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:19 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Large pedigree charts HI: I had my computer go down and wipe out one winters work. I did have it on paper for the most part. I don't have the gumpsion to type it back in. Since then I paid for an off site back up program and an external hard to back things up. It was cheap when figuring the time and effort to redo it. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:42 AM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Large pedigree charts When my computer crashed, taking my 17000 + with it, my sister mentioned that I had made a pedigree "fan chart" for her son when he was a 4th grader for his school project! Darned if the lovely young man knew exactly where it was (he is 22 now) and presented it to her with pride. Luckily I found an old, old backup, so I am now only missing 3,000 peeps. Sis has ironed that thing out and retaped it. I think it was 12 or 13 generations. It did not go all the way back to our Viking ancestors. I liked to use that to show who needed more research. Kathy Parkinson -----Original Message----- From: David E. Cann Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 4:54 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: [RMagic] Large pedigree charts Tom, Woops! Your are right, and I should have said PEDIGREE chart. That is what I get for asking this in a day such as this has been, but do you know of any means of printing a very large PEDIGREE CHART such as I described? Not many fourth graders have much need for descendancy charts. <eye roll> David E. Cann decann@infionline.net -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tom Holden Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:24 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Large descendancy charts I wonder if an ancestry or pedigree chart would be better for his purpose, starting with him. Else he would need two descendant charts just to cover the two early colonists. Tom On 2012-08-27, at 4:35 PM, "David E. Cann" <decann@infionline.net> wrote: > We have a 9 year old grandson about to begin the 4th grade in a week, > and he is starting to ask questions and show an interest in our family > genealogy that Grandma & Grandpa always talk about. Between my wife > and I, he has 2 ancestors who arrived on the Mayflower, 1 an original > settle at Jamestown, 1 who arrived with William Penn on the ship > Welcome, numerous kings and queens from both of us, and a lot of other > neat stuff that he learns about in school. The little squirt really > seems interested, and now wants to take some information to school > with him, which leads me to my question that makes it on-topic for > this list. :-) > > Does RM5 print out a descendancy chart that can be pieced together > with tape showing 12 or 15 generations? Either that, or else perhaps > save it to CD and take it to Staples or somewhere else for printing on > a printer with a larger platen than ours with letter or legal sized > paper? We found a blank > "15 Generation Descendancy Chart" on a trip once, and my wife has > begun the long and tedious task of filling in all of the information > BY HAND, but it is sure a tedious and time consuming task, especially > when your hands and eyes are as old as ours are. Any ideas along this > line would be very helpful. > > I've been using RM and FO forever, but I've not done many descandency > charts that took more than a single sheet of paper before. Based on > his questions, the little guy has figured out the connection between > his ancestry and the history he learns in school, and we want to > encourage him to study this if he does have the interest. If anyone > can offer any suggestions on how to approach this, hopefully allowing > us to print out a very large descendency chart, I would love to hear > from you. > > > David E. 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