Addon:Family Tree

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Family Tree - Graphical Reports - Addon - example of results

The Family Tree report generates a graphical tree of a family with its ancestors and/or descendants.

Usage

You can choose the Family Tree report with Reports ->Graphical Reports -> Family Tree...

The Family Tree report starts with a center family and can print both ancestors (to the left) and descendants (to the right).

Features

There are a number of differences to the standard Ancestor Tree and Descendant Tree reports:

• Both ancestors and descendants are combined in a single report
• The report is colored, with various coloring options
• The whole report is centered on the page, the boxes are also aligned in a more centered than top-aligned way
• Marriage and divorce information is included
• The names are printed in a bigger font than the dates and places (birth date, death date, etc)
• This report has options to use the call name instead of the first name, or to underline the call name (only works with PDF output)
• This report has options to print occupation and residence
• There are 3 predefined ways of formatting the birth/death/marriage/divorce data: year only, full date, or full date and place
• This report makes better use of the available space for printing ancestors
• On the ancestors side, father and mother are combined in a box
• On the descendants side, spouses are included

Caveats

• The report uses <u>...</u> to underline the call name if the call name is a part of the first name. This only works with CairoDoc based output (direct printing, PDF export) and HTML output.
• Printing on more than one page doesn't work, you usually want to use the "scale to fit on a single page" option.

Issues

• help button wrong page
• 7018 : Family Tree report no longer underlines call name in PDF output
• To activate callname handling, you need to apply the patch in 8003 uncomment in the FamilyTree.py the line

# menu.add_option(category_name, "callname", callname)

See also

• Addon:DescendantsLines - generates vertical orthogonal graphical trees.