Fan charts

September 17, 2006
Filed under: en, family 

Gramps, the genealogy program I’m using, has a nice option for producing fan charts. (It’s just a shame it isn’t better at fitting the texts into the fields.)

I like the fact that two fan charts can be fitted together when one marries to produce a full circle. :-)

Comments

6 Responses to “Fan charts”

  1. Phyl on September 19th, 2006 16:27

    this looks great

  2. Thomas on September 19th, 2006 19:24

    It’s just a shame I don’t have information about all my great-great-grandparents (tipoldeforældre in Danish, btw). What about you – how far can you go back?

  3. Phyl on September 20th, 2006 9:02

    Have it on paper somewhere (my loft I think) – definitely further back than that though maybe not on all branches. Dad definitely put on his great grandparents. But it is linear because he goes down each branch too adding cousins and their kids etc, it doesn’t all fan out from one family/person.

  4. Thomas on September 20th, 2006 9:04

    Oh, sure, my genealogical database in Gramps contains lots of cousins, uncles, wives and so on. I just asked it for a fan chart for myself.

  5. Phyl on September 20th, 2006 9:31

    cool – different views for different needs…this is beginning to sound too much like being back at work!:-/

  6. Thomas on September 20th, 2006 9:32

    So long as you don’t have to design, write or test the program, it’s good fun! :-)

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