The Treetops Sidebar

What Is the Treetops Sidebar?

Using Treetops

The Treetops Shortcuts

Sharing the Treetops Sidebar (Printing, Emailing, etc.)

Marking People in the Treetops Sidebar

Sidebars

What Is the Treetops Sidebar?

Treetops are the earliest known ancestors of a person. To see a list of treetops, click Treetops in the Sidebar list.

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A pair of tab buttons appears at the top of the list: one for the husband and one for the wife of the current family. To switch between a list of treetops for the husband and wife, click the tab buttons containing each person's name.

The Treetops list is divided by generation (from the source person). Each generation is labeled by a gray dividing line that also shows the number of people in each generation. For example, in the illustration above you can see at a glance that there are 4 people in generation 4 who are considered "treetops."

What Makes a Person a "Treetop?"

Treetops are the earliest known ancestors of a person. Thus, people in the Treetops sidebar could include any of the following...

Tip: Here are some handy shortcuts for showing treetops of a person...

Using Treetops

To navigate to anyone in the Treetops sidebar, single-click the name in the Treetops sidebar. When you do this, the contents of the Treetops sidebar won't change, which makes it easy to investigate other ancestors in the Treetops for a particular person.

However, the contents of the Treetops will refresh as you navigate to different people in your family file by clicking buttons (child or parent buttons) or if you switch to another sidebar and then switch back to the Treetops sidebar.

If the List color mode is set to Color lists by sex, entries in the Treetops sidebar will appear with color coding (by sex).

The Treetops Shortcuts

Here are two shortcuts to see a Treetops menu...

1. Click a Person menu button (little in a person's button) and choose Treetops.

2. Control-click (or right-click) any person's button in the family view or any name in any sidebar.