Color Tags

What Are Color Tags?
Where Do Color Tags Appear?
Using Color Tags

Editing Color Tags

Color Tag Tips
Using Flags with Tags

What Are Color Tags?

The Color Tags feature lets you use color to tag people in your family file. Color tags provide visual clues to distinguish different attributes or groups of people. For example...

And all of these color tags appear simultaneously, if you prefer.

Color tags are "automatic" — that is, once a color tag is assigned to a particular attribute (or "rule") then anybody who meets that rule will receive the appropriate color tag. For example, if the relatives of Leroy Brown are assigned a brown color tag, then subsequently adding a new person who is related to Leroy Brown would automatically assign the brown color tag to the new person.

Note: Y-DNA and mtDNA are also options in Reunion's Marking feature.

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Where Do Color Tags Appear?

Color Tags appear in several places...

Using Color Tags

To add, remove, edit, enable, disable, or list color tags, click Color Tags in the list of Sidebars.

This reveals the Color Tags sidebar, shown below.

Editing Color Tags

To edit an existing color tag...

  1. Select Color Tags from the list of Sidebars.
  2. Double-click the color tag (in the top list). This opens the Edit Color Tag window.

The Who menu is for specifying the group of people to be tagged.

As you select different items in the Who menu, the options will change accordingly.

Select a color and enter a name for the tag. A default name will appear when selecting items from the Who menu; however the name can be changed anytime, simply by editing the text in the Name field.

Color Tag Tips

Color tags in person buttons or in lists can be clicked, as a reminder of what each color means.

When viewing couples (in the Couples list, Results, and Treetops), the color tags from husband & wife are shown together.

When using the Advanced Find feature, color tags appear in the Find selection pop-up menus...


The Results sidebar can, at any time, show a list of people with any color tag.


Color tags do not appear in reports or charts, except when sharing the Tree View or Family View.

Color tags are not "static" — they are auto-updated as changes are made in the family file. Thus, you can't simply turn one person's color tag on or off.

While there are only 12 colors available for color tags, you may enter up to 75 different color tags by repeating some colors.

Using Flags with Tags

Here's an example of using flags with color tags to address a typical situation: a visual indication of uncertainty or uncertain relationships...

Add a new flag and name it "Uncertain" or "Uncertain Information" or "Uncertain Relationship."

Add a new color tag that will use the Uncertain flag. To do this...

  1. Select Change in the navbar.
  2. Select Color Tags.
  3. Click the + button.
  4. In the Edit Color Tag window, use the Who button to select People with flag checked.
  5. Select "Uncertain" from the bottom menu (appearing under the Who button).

In this example...