Creating a Chart

Each chart has a 'focal' or 'root' person, that is the person which forms the base of the ancestor or descendant chart. For a ancestor chart this will be the first generation of the chart. For the descendant chart this will be the person that is the highest generation.

There are a number of ways to select a focal person, depending which window is the front window

• The current person in a family window will become the focal person of a new chart

• The selected person of a table of individuals will become the focal person

• The currently selected person of a chart will become the focus person of any new chart

To create a chart,

• Select a focus person in one of the ways described above

• Choose the menu Chart-> New Chart->(selected chart type)