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Ultimate Genealogy Chart Design Guide for Family Reunions

Discover expert tips for creating stunning genealogy charts for family reunions. Learn about fonts, colors, lines, and images to beautifully showcase your family tree. Perfect for sharing missing details and celebrating special occasions. Ideal for websites, CDs, email attachments, and multimedia presentations.

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Ultimate Genealogy Chart Design Guide for Family Reunions

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  1. Super Charts Tips and Tricks for Reunion and Generations

  2. Target audience? • Family Reunion - sharing the information • trying to get missing details from relatives • can see what's missing • where they fit in • special occasion eg birthday, wedding • publication eg book

  3. Target audience? • website • CD • images to use in your genealogy program –multimedia • Email chart as attachment

  4. Fonts • fancy or plain - who are you aiming it to? • font size - granny with the glasses • beware of redrawing orientation

  5. Colours • coloured boxes: generations, groups - ancestors, descendants, one generation, all • coloured borders • shadows • no borders

  6. Coloured Lines • lines of descent • relationships

  7. Bold • 1st line of text - easier to see changes in surname • larger fonts for name, smaller for details

  8. What details to include • name only • all - useful to see what information is missing - not so good if you have a lot a small children in the tree • relationships • pictures

  9. Orientation • Top to bottom - typical form • Waterfall - most efficient use of space for Descendant charts

  10. Orientation • Left to right - depending on the contents will either: - use as little vertical space as possible as it moves across the chart, or - fan upward and downward equally as it moves across the chart

  11. Positioning Boxes - Dragging • Single • Branch • Global • Generation • Generation+

  12. Layering • Transparent • Opaque

  13. Images • pictures - preferred or selection • scanned documents such as certificates, maps • could be a chart you have already created, saved as a graphic and added as an image

  14. Images • Description and Memo in Reunion – useful particularly when creating web files if include option include Web Media Pages

  15. Time Line Charts • placing selected people with a particular event • customising “family” events

  16. Sharing Charts by Email • share a chart as a graphic file attachment to an email

  17. Web Media Pages • All pictures in Multimedia can appear as thumbnails if web media pages are created

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