What Is a Relative Chart?
Creating a Relative Chart
For Whom?
How Many Generations?
Pruning a Relative Chart
Layout
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.
To create a relative chart...
A panel with options will appear.
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
. 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 .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.
As Reunion is gathering relatives for the chart, it will only include marked relatives if the button is checked.
Ancestral duplication and descendant repetition are automatically omitted from relative charts.
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...
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.
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.
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.
When you click the
button in the panel, Reunion will build a new chart and open the chart in a new window. To learn about editing the chart, click here.