GDBChart – producing charts from the GDB

You can easily produce the common genealogy charts – Ancestors, Descendents, and Hourglass (combination) from the GDB: -

1. Click the link “Genealogy Charts” and a small Windows program is downloaded to your computer.

2. With this program you search the database, and select the person on which the chart is based. This does not have to be your own record. You choose the chart type, and click [Get Chart Data].

3. The program then displays the chart: -

4. Charts may be displayed and printed at scale factors from 10% to 100%. Low scale factors are great for showing the structure of the chart, but the details of names and dates are not readable

5. Charts are “live” –clicking a cell opens the corresponding web page, while a right-click menu lets you display new charts based on the person you’ve just clicked, and you may be able to add ancestors and descendents to a chart.