The following announcement was written by Millennia Corporation, the producer of Legacy Family Tree:
New family tree charting software now available for download. Create ancestor charts, descendant charts, mother’s trees, father’s trees, fan charts, hourglass charts, bow tie charts, and DNA charts.
Surprise, AZ – March 4, 2008 – All genealogists are invited to take a free test drive of the newest wall chart software. Compatible with Family Tree Maker, Personal Ancestral File (PAF), Legacy Family Tree, RootsMagic, and GEDCOM files, Legacy Charting takes publishing your family tree to a new level.
Developed by the makers of the popular software, Legacy Family Tree, Legacy Charting adds new ways of seeing and printing your family relationships. Legacy Charting will be one of the new features with the soon-to-be-released Legacy Family Tree version 7, but until June 15, 2008, this special pre-release edition of Legacy Charting is freely available to everyone.
“Visualizing and printing large-scale family tree charts is something that all genealogists can appreciate,” says Millennia Corporation President, David Berdan. “These charts even get the non-genealogists of the family interested in learning about their heritage. Legacy Charting creates amazing charts, is incredibly flexible, and so easy to use. I believe it is the first genealogy software to create large-scale DNA charts to help DNA researchers. We invite everyone to take the pre-release for a test drive.”
Sample Charts
To see what the charts look like, visit www.LegacyCharting.com/samples.htm.Key Features:
- Creates 18 different types of family charts
- All charts are easily customizable
- Choose the number of generations to be displayed
- Select the contents of each box
- Pick from a variety of color themes, including the popular 4-color coding system
- Select from a variety of beautiful backgrounds and page borders
- Insert your own pictures and clipart
- Easily email any chart to family members
- Export to .pdf, .bmp, .jpg, .png, .tiff, .psd
- Order a wall chart and have it delivered to your front door
- Includes a thorough help reference system for easy reference
System Requirements:
Windows 98 or higher (including Vista); 20mb free hard disk space; 256mb RAMPricing:
FREE for the pre-release editionDownload now:
http://www.LegacyCharting.comMillennia Corporation, based in Surprise, Arizona, is the producer of Legacy Family Tree and other software products.
I'm impressed by the quality of the charts - far better than those of other software programs. But I'm unable to find a left-to-right descendant chart rather than a top-to-bottom one as offered. A left-to-right descendant chart is ususally more economical in terms of spacing and paper and is what I would prefer. Is this option available?
Posted by: Robert Wells | March 05, 2008 at 08:28 AM
Robert, this option is not yet available but is high on the To Do List.
Posted by: Geoff Rasmussen | March 05, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Hmmmm. FREE Quality charts? It sounds almost anti-American, but I'm grateful. I really appreciate that it accepts GEDCOM files. Kudos to Legacy! I'm on my way over there to secure my copy.
Happy Dae.
http://www.ShoeStringGenealogy.com
Posted by: Happy Dae | March 05, 2008 at 11:15 AM
There are some nice options included in this new package. Unfortunately, I don't see a combination bowtie-hourglass chart -- which seems to the most popular request lately.
Posted by: Athena | March 05, 2008 at 11:44 AM
I love this program! It is a perfect companion to digital scrapbooking!
Finally a program that allows you to create a chart that can be imported into another program to create a scrapbook page that can be printed to fit into your photo album. I'll definitely be purchasing this!
Posted by: Linda Ritchey | March 05, 2008 at 02:42 PM
You state that Legacy charts are compatible with Family Tree Maker, but no mention of which versions of FTM. Is it compatible with Version 11?
Posted by: Helena Howell | March 06, 2008 at 04:30 PM
Helena, it is compatible with all versions of FTM except FTM 2008. For people with FTM 2008, a GEDCOM could be created with it, and then used in Legacy Charting.
Posted by: Geoff Rasmussen | March 07, 2008 at 09:54 AM
I'm a Mac user - if I create a GEDCOM in Reunion, will it be usable in Legacy Charting?
Posted by: R. Faulkner | March 09, 2008 at 01:49 PM
Yes. GEDCOM was designed to exchange genealogy information between dissimilar computers and is operating system independent. You can create GEDCOM files in Windows, Macintosh, Linux, UNIX or perhaps other operating systems and then be able to read the files on any of the other operating systems.
Posted by: Dick Eastman | March 09, 2008 at 02:44 PM
I use Legacy 6 and this charting add-on is really good
BUT...
in one branch I have cousins marrying. The decendant chart duplicates every decendant since. Very frustrating!
Posted by: Chris H | March 28, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Suppressing duplicate lines is one of the items still on the to do list for Legacy charting.
The following is an extract of a post by Geoff Rasmussen on 26 March when an update to the Pre-Release Version of Legacy Charting was issued.
"Still to come
Thank you for all your suggestions of new functionality. We are listening and will implement your suggestions as Legacy Charting evolves. These are among the top requests:
Add the left-to-right Descendancy chart
Add the all-in-one chart
Add the option to not split boxes at page breaks
Add the Undo button
Suppress duplicate lines
Complete the chart ordering service
Option for short-location names
Improved "quoted" names
Many more..."
Posted by: Brian | April 03, 2008 at 12:09 AM