Even though my Legacy database contains up to 6 generations including myself, I find that the Ancestral Tree and Wheel Chart each only plot 4 generations. I have tried both the "All" and "6 generations" options on importing the Legacy data. Descendant trees plot fine. What is the problem?
This is my first day with TreeDraw. (Win2k, TreeDraw 3.03, Legacy Deluxe 6.0.0.73)
Thanks
Generation limit of 4 for Ancestral Tree and Wheel Chart
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I tried that, and sure enough, by choosing a parent of my original key person as a new key peson, only 3 generations get plotted! So yes there is a "break" in the chain, but seemingly only in that direction. As I said before, the Descendant Tree is plotted correctly right from the earliest generation.
Given that Legacy charts work fine, and Tree Draw Descendant Trees look fine, what I am I to do? Is it my Legacy data entry that is done wrong, or a Legacy/TreeDraw programming glitch?
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Given that Legacy charts work fine, and Tree Draw Descendant Trees look fine, what I am I to do? Is it my Legacy data entry that is done wrong, or a Legacy/TreeDraw programming glitch?
Thanks
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Hi Nick
I have found my own answer! For some reason the earliest husband and wife plotted each had more than one set of parents in Legacy! The husband had 3 sets, one set reasonably named and the others were couples each named "Unknown". The wife had 2 sets, one reasonably named, and the other couple each named "Unknown". I expect TreeDraw was confused by the multiple sets of parents!
On reflection, I think this came about because I started building my Legacy database without knowing much about how it worked and invented "Unknown" as a sort of name place-holder. Then I discovered a relative had done lots of work, so I imported her PAF data via a Gedcom file, but clearly I never identified my naively created "Unknown"s with her real people.
It all goes to show what software-users get up to! Anyway, thanks for your super-prompt earlier response, and we may disregard my earlier response to it.
BTW, this Forum is a very nice one to use (feel, appearance, utility, etc).
Thanks heaps
I have found my own answer! For some reason the earliest husband and wife plotted each had more than one set of parents in Legacy! The husband had 3 sets, one set reasonably named and the others were couples each named "Unknown". The wife had 2 sets, one reasonably named, and the other couple each named "Unknown". I expect TreeDraw was confused by the multiple sets of parents!
On reflection, I think this came about because I started building my Legacy database without knowing much about how it worked and invented "Unknown" as a sort of name place-holder. Then I discovered a relative had done lots of work, so I imported her PAF data via a Gedcom file, but clearly I never identified my naively created "Unknown"s with her real people.
It all goes to show what software-users get up to! Anyway, thanks for your super-prompt earlier response, and we may disregard my earlier response to it.
BTW, this Forum is a very nice one to use (feel, appearance, utility, etc).
Thanks heaps