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Paul E
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I like it - and I'm resisting the urge to Google an image of Lonnie even as we speak  - if he ever appears on site you'll be credited as managing his intellectual property! 
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Paul E
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Thanks for that Sy. Adventuresome isn't a word I normally associate with myself when it comes to the technical aspects of PCs and programming - more 'foolhardy'! Those Googled links look interesting and I will have to spend a little time looking them over.
cheers
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Paul E
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Nice one, Julian! I'll have to see if we can get a copy of the manuscript!
cheers
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Comosus
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Personally I use KStableau ( http://home.zonnet.nl/KStableau/ ), mainly because it keeps the boxes really small and simple. I like to have a look at my tree as a whole rather than having to click arrows to see the next 2 generations, because if I then want to look at a different part of the tree, it can take a while to get to the right page. I know some people use PHPGedView ( http://www.phpgedview.net/ ) but I haven't tried it.
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Leeds - HOLMES (also at Boston Spa, Thorp Arch), SCHOLEY/SCOREY/SCHORAH (also at Stanley, Wakefield), TURVEY (also at Birmingham), WARD, WHITE, WOODHEAD (also at Halton, Whitkirk, Templenewsam). Dewbury - CRAWSHAW, GLEDHILL, SPEIGHT Great Horton - RAMSDEN, SHACKLETON, WOOLER Woolsthorpe by Belvoir - SMITH Barrowby and South Stoke, Lincolnshire - PARKER Derby and Newhall - STREET Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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julianb
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can anyone recommend a program to display my family tree on my website, i have family tree builder 2006 but still havent got the hang of it really.Ive built my tree on genesreunited but obviously only paid members can view it...hence my need for one on my site.
Thanks
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Try KStableau - http://www.home.zonnet.nl/KStableau/index.html - you can use just selected parts of your gedcom file for this, or the lot.
When andrew beat me to it!
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Essex - Carter, Danns, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrill, Surry, Theobold Kent - Luetchford Nottinghamshire - Baker, Dunks, Woodward, Price, Priestley Suffolk - Rose Surrey - Baker, Bedel, Bransden, Carter, Coleman, Gibbs, Luetchford, Quinton Sussex - Gibbs, Langridge Wiltshire - Brice, Rumble http://genbires.blogspot.com/http://genbires-networking.blogspot.com/Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Berlin-Bob
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I'm still using Excel for the time being, but I'm having some rethinks about how to draw a tree.
The original had the siblings on the same horizontal line, with a box for everybody, which meant it gets a bit wide if there are lots of siblings
I am now trying this approach:
The siblings are presented in a vertical line,
the direct descendents get a box, the siblings don't !!
and I include sibling families, too, if they are important to me
I am also colouring the background for every second generation, in the hope that it the generations will be easier to recognise.
I haven't put it on my site yet as I would like a bit of feedback
I am including part of the excel spreadsheet, and part of the "finished product" here.
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« Last Edit: Saturday 09 December 06 08:56 GMT (UK) by Berlin-Bob »
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site http://boco.rootschat.net All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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julianb
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Good concept - I like the shading of alternative generations. The problem, as ever, is scale/legibility. I assume people will have to scroll across the screen.
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Essex - Carter, Danns, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrill, Surry, Theobold Kent - Luetchford Nottinghamshire - Baker, Dunks, Woodward, Price, Priestley Suffolk - Rose Surrey - Baker, Bedel, Bransden, Carter, Coleman, Gibbs, Luetchford, Quinton Sussex - Gibbs, Langridge Wiltshire - Brice, Rumble http://genbires.blogspot.com/http://genbires-networking.blogspot.com/Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Gadget
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Scrolling is the major problem that I have, Julian, even with single line trees.  It really restricts how many generations you can include in a page without losing legibility.
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kerryb
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Did anybody crack the problem of adding gedcom family trees to websites in NOF? ie webpages generated from a gedcom file.
I had problems, the only way to add it was to download it as a separate website and then link the two which was not really suitable.
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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