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Topic: SmartDraw: a chart program, also for Family Trees (Read 359 times)
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Berlin-Bob
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by My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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I have several family trees on my web-site. I produced them as Excel spreadsheets, which I then printed and scanned in as images.
I am still looking for a better way of doing it !!
While in Britain recently I bought a computer magazine PC Plus #229 for May 2005.
One of the freebies on the CD is a general chart-drawing program (organisation charts, floor plans, etc). I thought I would try it and see if I could produce a family tree. Imagine my surprise when I opened the magazine and found that the 2-page tutorial to go with the program was about ..... making a family tree, complete with HTML export and hyperlinks !
So I did !
It took about 30 minutes to produce a simple tree. I added three hyperlinks to existing web-pages of my G-Grandparents and my Grandfather (Rose Elvina Breeze, Henry Frederick Coleman and John Henry Coleman), and uploaded it to my web-site and that was it !!
You can see the results at http://tutorial.rootschat.net/rc/coleman.htm
I haven't tried the print facilities yet, but the print preview looks OK. I
Obviously a complex chart would take a lot longer, but you can save simpler charts as templates and add them together to make bigger charts, so this does seems to be a possibility for anybody looking for a cheap chart-drawing program.
The magazine is on sale till the 10th. May so if you feel like trying it out, get down to your newsagents quick !
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« Last Edit: Friday 19 May 06 18:43 BST (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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Steve Ley
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Hi Bob, It does sound interesting, One question though is a complete or trail program ?
Steve.
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Census images Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk  Researching LEY, MEATS, LEVER (Nottingham) KERRIAGE/KERRIDGE/CARRIAGE (Norfolk, Cambridge,Lincoln) WISEMAN (Cambridge) UNWIN (Staffordshire,Derbyshire) FRANCES/FRANCIS (Norfolk) And BELL, McKENZIE and GRAY in Scotland. |
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Steve Ley
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Nice quick answer Bob, where you waiting for my question 
Steve.
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Census images Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Researching LEY, MEATS, LEVER (Nottingham) KERRIAGE/KERRIDGE/CARRIAGE (Norfolk, Cambridge,Lincoln) WISEMAN (Cambridge) UNWIN (Staffordshire,Derbyshire) FRANCES/FRANCIS (Norfolk) And BELL, McKENZIE and GRAY in Scotland. |
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