Timeline Chart

What Is a Timeline Chart?
Creating a Timeline Chart
For Whom?
Span of Years
Name Format

The Create Chart Button


Editing Timeline Charts

Perspective Events

What Is a Timeline Chart?

A timeline chart is a graphic document that depicts the lifespans of people as horizontal bars, similar to a bar chart or a Gantt chart.


Creating a Timeline Chart

To create a timeline chart...

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

A panel full of options will appear.


For Whom?

When you create a timeline chart, you have the option to include all people, marked people only, or just the descendants of the current couple. However, timeline charts are limited to 1200 people.

Descendants of Current Couple
If you click Descendants of current couple, Reunion will start with the couple on the current family and look "downward" (forward in time). It gathers all the descendants of this couple until it reaches one of the following...

  1. The end of a lineage.
  2. The generation specified in the Generations box (2 to 99).
  3. 1200 people.

As Reunion is gathering descendants, it will only include marked descendants if the Marked descendants only button is checked. Similarly, you can include only people whose child buttons appear in bold by checking the Bold children only button. You also have the option to include spouses of descendants by checking the Include spouses button.

Duplication, caused when relatives marry, is automatically removed from timeline charts.

Span of Years

If you prefer, you can include only people who were alive during a range of years. To do this, check the Alive between button and enter a beginning and ending year into the two number boxes. If checked, this filter applies to any of the three choices in the Who section of this window.

Name Format

To set the format for names in a timeline chart, click the Name Format button.

The Create Chart Button

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