I’m new to using this program, and I can’t figure out if this is possible. Is there a chart that looks like the standard Hourglass Chart that shows everyone in my family tree database? There are maybe 80 people in my database. Thanks!
Generally speaking, an hourglass chart is based on the concept of a single person (and their spouse) at the center (thinnest proportion) and cascades outward in both ancestor and descendant directions for direct blood relatives only. If your database has any other non-direct relatives, they would not appear. The Hourglass chart in RootsMagic 10 is a selection under Reports and Charts of the Publish screen.
Is there a chart that DOES show everyone in my database that looks like the Hourglass Chart? The people in the database are all related in one way or another. If it does not look like the Hourglass Chart, is there a chart that does show everyone? Thanks!
No. If everyone is linked, then a Kinship List report would show everyone but not graphically.
Charting companion (not by RootsMagic) connects directly to RM and produces a “Trellis Chart” which can show everyone … (its paid software if you do not have a licensed copy)
OK. Thanks for everyone’s help on this. I found a solution yEd Graph Editor which can take a GEDCOM export and create a basic chart with everyone. So I’ll use RM as the main program and the other to do the basic chart.
Progeny’s trellis chart looks to have its origin in Geneaquilts
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More than likely Geneaquilts has its origin in Progeny’s offerings. Progeny was putting out charting software back when I worked at Broderbund/The Learning Company about 1999-2000. I did tech support for Family Origins and FamilyTreeMaker among others and Progency had licensed their product to our genealogy group to sell alongside they genealogy software.
Progeny’s trellis chart looks to have its origin in Geneaquilts
Definitely look nearly identical … not sure of the history of the two..
From the Geneaquilts page, it clearly states that Progeny’s Trellis Chart is the derivative.
GeneaQuilts has been integrated with Puck (Program for the Use and Computation of Kinship data).
GeneaQuilts has been implemented by the commercial software Progeny Genealogy and renamed Trellis Charts.
GeneaQuilt is also available in Généapro, a web-based genealogical software distributed under GPL2.
GeneaQuilts is available since 11/11/2016 in The Gramps Project, a free software project for genealogy, as a third-party addon called “QuiltView”. Install it in Gramps via addons.
I was basing solely off the provided website stating their nomenclature had been changed by Progeny. The Wayback Machine only shows the company’s web presence back to 2006, but mentions for Trellis charts start about 2017. Progeny Trellis Chart - 2016 Youtube
Trellis Chart™ is based on GeneaQuilts, by Bezerianos, A.; Dragicevic, P.; Fekete, J.-D.; Juhee Bae; Watson, B.; , “GeneaQuilts: A System for Exploring Large Genealogies,” Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.16, no.6, pp.1073-1081, Nov.-Dec. 2010, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.159
GeneaQuilts was also mentioned in Dick Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter (Nov. 2010
Source:
https://progenygenealogy.com/products/family-tree-charts/trellis/
Geneaquilts can claim what they like. Progeny was doing something not all that different prior to to Geneaquilts even existing. As I recall, their first product was Genelines or something like that and that was all pre-2000. We (the support staff) got various demos of their products to play with. Of course then The Learning Company spun off their genealogy division to Genealogy.com at which time the association with Progeny went away so I stopped following their releases.
Of course as we all known, everything we find posted on the internet is the God’s Truth, right?
And Progeny can credit GeneaQuilts authors as the origin of its Trellis Charts product but you know better…
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