Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Open up your genealogy family tree software (you do have family tree software, right?) and:
2) Create a timeline for one or more of your ancestral families. The design is yours to create - make it as intricate or beautiful as you wish. timeline" - you should be able to find detailed instructions.
3) Show us your creation in a blog post of your own, as a comment to this blog post, or in a note or comment on Facebook. Tell us which software you used, too.
Here's mine:
I used RootsMagic 4 to create this three generation chart for my great-grandparents (Frederick and Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver, his parents and their children.
In RootsMagic, I selected Reports > Charts > Timeline Chart and then chose "Select from list) on the "People to include" dropdown menu. I selected a highlighted person in the "Select People" screen (I chose Frederick Walton Seaver), checked his name, then in the "Mark People" dropdown list I selected "Family of highlighted person" and checked both "As a parents with spouse" and "As a Child with parents." Then clicked on OK > OK > Generate Report and the chart was created.
To create the image above, I did a screen capture with "Print Screen," pasted the image into MSWord, right-clicked the image and saved it as a PNG file, then brought the image into the Microsoft digital Editor program and cropped it, then saved it to a file, and imported it into Blogger.
As an alternative, I could have manually checked any number of names in the "Select People" list to include Frederick's siblings, other spouses, etc.
I wonder how many different software programs will be used to do this task tonight? Have fun!
Hmmm. RootsMagic did a great job. Legacy was more or less adequate but not as flexible. FamilyTreeMaker 2005 didn't give me options of how many generations etc. - maybe the 2010 version has that versatility. Interesting result on RM4 - lots of very long-lived women in this family of mine! Cheers - Celia
ReplyDeleteRandy, this was interesting. My program, The Master Genealogist (TMG) doesn't have a similar feature I could find, so I did one in RM4 also: http://hoffman-news.blogspot.com/2010/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-hoffman.html
ReplyDeletePut one together in Reunion, had a hard time inserting it into the blog. http://wp.me/pugQZ-eL
ReplyDeleteI also used Reunion, and was able to save my chart as a JPEG to insert into my blog: http://bit.ly/9cuhOO
ReplyDeleteHere's another chart using Reunion
ReplyDeleteI used Reunion. Was easy enough. Reunion saved the file automatically as a png. Then edited it in PSE and saved it as a jpg. Then placed it into blog. Had to use medium size in order for it to fit into blog. Roots Magic seems to have done a better timeline than Reunion.
ReplyDeleteDon't have a blog and didn't do a timeline, but thought some of you might want to have a look at this timeline software. I think it would work well for problem solving if your genealogy software doesn't have what you need.
ReplyDeleteI also used RootsMagic 4, it was between that and The Master Genealogist which doesn't have the capacity to easily create a timeline for an individual. I like RM4. It's easy to use and has lots of bells and whistles. Here is my post http://arnspiger.blogspot.com/2010/04/genea-musings-saturday-night-challenge.html
ReplyDeleteHere's mine for a project I am working on. Great directions Randy!
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