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Explore One Family in Six Charts

Switch between every available family chart without rebuilding the people.

Open the sample Family Tree with Anna as the starting Person and All family selected. Keep the same scope while comparing layouts. See Choose a Family Chart for export compatibility.

All people and stories in these screenshots are fictional. Photographs were generated for these examples. The sample collection opens locally; changes to it do not save to your online collection automatically.

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Begin with Branching Tree

Choose Branching Tree and use Fit. Follow parent links upward and inspect the siblings beside or below their main family member. Pan and zoom to read a card.

The Linden family in Branching Tree.

Compare Radial

Choose Radial. Read the ancestor sectors and generation bands around the focus. Empty positions show missing parents. This view does not use the rectangular portrait cards of Branching Tree.

The same family in Radial.

Compare Lifespans

Choose Lifespans to compare overlapping lives. Look at the horizontal year axis and the difference between known endpoints and incomplete dates.

The family in horizontal Lifespans.

Compare Birth Timeline

Choose Birth Timeline. Read vertical birth positions and family groupings. A family layout does not move a recorded date to an artificial generation row.

The family in Birth Timeline.

Compare Relationship Timeline

Choose Relationship Timeline to see family connections against dates. Recorded partnership dates and chart-only placement assumptions have different meanings.

The family in Relationship Timeline.

Compare Map and save a preferred view

Choose Map for the birthplaces. Inspect the place counts and Person names, then return to your preferred layout. Save chart preferences and save the collection or export your local .ca copy.

The same selection plotted by birthplace.

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