What Is a Timeline Chart?
Creating a Timeline Chart
For Whom?
Span of Years
Name Format
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.
To create a timeline chart...
A panel full of options will appear.
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 , 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...
As Reunion is gathering descendants, it will only include marked descendants if the
button is checked. Similarly, you can include only people whose child buttons appear in bold by checking the button. You also have the option to include spouses of descendants by checking the button.Duplication, caused when relatives marry, is automatically removed from timeline charts.
If you prefer, you can include only people who were alive during a range of years. To do this, check the
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.To set the format for names in a timeline chart, click the
button.When you click the here.
button in the panel, Reunion will build and open a new chart in a new window. To learn about editing the chart, click