1. www.vicgum.asn.au Super Charts Tips and Tricks for Reunion and Generations

2. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Target audience? Family Reunion - sharing the information trying to get missing details from relatives can see what's missing where they fit in special occasion eg birthday, wedding publication eg book

3. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Target audience? website CD images to use in your genealogy program –multimedia Email chart as attachment

4. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Fonts fancy or plain - who are you aiming it to? font size - granny with the glasses beware of redrawing orientation

5. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Colours coloured boxes: generations, groups - ancestors, descendants, one generation, all coloured borders shadows no borders

6. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Coloured Lines lines of descent relationships

7. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Bold 1st line of text - easier to see changes in surname larger fonts for name, smaller for details

8. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 What details to include name only all - useful to see what information is missing - not so good if you have a lot a small children in the tree relationships pictures

9. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Orientation Top to bottom - typical form Waterfall - most efficient use of space for Descendant charts

10. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Orientation Left to right - depending on the contents will either: - use as little vertical space as possible as it moves across the chart, or - fan upward and downward equally as it moves across the chart

11. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Positioning Boxes - Dragging Single Branch Global Generation Generation+

12. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Layering Transparent Opaque

13. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Images pictures - preferred or selection scanned documents such as certificates, maps could be a chart you have already created, saved as a graphic and added as an image

14. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Images Description and Memo in Reunion – useful particularly when creating web files if include option include Web Media Pages

15. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Time Line Charts placing selected people with a particular event customising “family” events

16. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Sharing Charts by Email share a chart as a graphic file attachment to an email

17. www.vicgum.asn.au Prepared by Robyn Fisher July 2004 Web Media Pages All pictures in Multimedia can appear as thumbnails if web media pages are created