Relative Chart

What Is a Relative Chart?
Creating a Relative Chart

For Whom?
How Many Generations?
Pruning a Relative Chart
Layout

Hourglass Charts

Everybody Chart

The Create Chart Button


Editing Tree Charts

Pictures in Charts

Privacy Filter

What Is a Relative Chart?

A relative chart is a graphic document that begins with one person (the starting person) and includes all of the starting person's blood relatives. The chart moves backward and forward in time — up and down the tree for a specified number of generations in both directions. The relative chart combines elements of both descendant and ancestor charts. It does not include the blood relatives of the spouse of the starting person, such as his/her ancestors.

Creating a Relative Chart

To create a relative chart...

  1. Select Charts in the navbar.
  2. Select Relative in the list of charts.

A panel with options will appear.

For Whom?

When you create a relative chart, Reunion will start with a person selected in the Who section. By default, names of the husband/wife of the current family appear in the "Who" section when you select Charts > Relative. To create a relative chart for a different person, you can select (single-click) any name in any sidebar and the "Who" section will be updated. Or, you can return to the family view and navigate to the desired starting person and, once again, select Charts > Relative.

How Many Generations?

To set the number of generations up and down from the starting person, use the up/down arrows beside the Up and Down fields, or type numbers into the fields. Relative charts can move upward and downward, up to 99 generations in each direction.

Pruning a Relative Chart

As Reunion is gathering relatives for the chart, it will only include marked relatives if the Marked relatives only button is checked.

Ancestral duplication and descendant repetition are automatically omitted from relative charts.

Layout

A layout is a collection of settings that determine the content and "look" of a chart. To create or customize the layout for a relative chart...

  1. Select Charts > Relative.
  2. Click the Layout button and choose Define Layouts.

Most of the layout settings for relative charts are common to other charts and reports. Follow these links for more information...

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Below, we'll review the Hourglass setting which is unique to relative charts. 

Hourglass Charts

This setting lets you automatically trim a relative chart so that it only includes direct ancestors and descendants (i.e., omit cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.).

In addition, you can include the siblings of the source person and/or all ancestors.

The Hourglass example below includes only direct ancestors and descendants of the source person.

Everybody Chart

Reunion does not create an "everybody" or "everyone" chart. Such a chart has the potential to become immensely large and unwieldy. The most comprehensive chart Reunion creates is the relative chart which shows all the blood relatives (with spouses) of a person.

The Create Chart Button

When you click the Create Chart button in the Charts > Relative panel, Reunion will build a new chart and open the chart in a new window. To learn about editing the chart, click here.