On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:01:58 +0100, Peter J Seymour
<mozng@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>[...] causes me to think about how useful such multi-page charts are in
>practice. Do people often ****e over a grid of printed sheets? [...]
I have twice done multi-page-charts, printed as a booklet as though
fan-folded paper. The sheets are A4 ****trait. (For circulation, I
reduced them to A5, so that each booklet was cheaper.)
The first was descendants of a marriage in 1856 down to 2005 - 7
generations. I endeavoured to keep each set of more recent close
relatives together on a double page - this meant that the number of
pages increased slightly, but gave (as one readers commented) the
feeling one was looking at a series of connected stories.
I headed each page with the name of the person (child of the first
couple) from whom those displayed on the page descended. I also did
an index to accompany the 19 chart pages.
The second was a transcription of the 19C scroll tree, giving most
male lines, and quite a pro****tion of female lines, from a couple
marrying in 1595, down to mid 19C for most and late 19C for some. 17
chart pages, 10 generations.
In each case, I did the charts with Powerpoint (which allowed me to
include the notes and rough working from the transcribed scroll), and
ensured that the generations were in the same positions on each page,
which helps the eye to follow across the pages and makes counting
cousin****ps easier.
(Luckily I had no cousin marriages to link - it will be more
complicated when I update (correct) the scroll, and show where those
already connected married.)
Most people that look at them have commented favourably.
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