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Thanks, that should do it, its a shame that you cant have local access to each individuals box, as you dont want to have the same template for everyone

I can add extra boxes with extra info and attach to a given person in a diagram , but i cant see how to add exrtra lines of text to a given diagram box, also inserting extra lines of text between existing lines, like all things obvious when u know how, have read manual but still none the wiser, can ...

thanks for that, picked a value at random and was a perfect fit!!

the question arises from something we have found out about my wifes family, and were wondering if anyone had an answer. My wifes grandmother left her mother and grandfather when her mother was about 5 in 1927, In 1928 she had another child by an unknown father, not a clever thing to do in those days...

In my chart, which i create from a gedcom file, output from ancestory, The boxes dont always allow all the info to be displayed without a wrap around on some lines, I can correct this in some cases by stretching the box, this however leaves whit space at the bottom of the box, which can be shortened...

please forget above , started to use my brain and solved my own problem

In my wifes tree , she is the root person, I am there as her husband, all her ancestors show the marriages in the female line as we want but for myself and our childrens marriages these are not being shown, I'm sure its simple , except i dont know how, can anyone please help

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Hi Tatewise,

Is their anywhere i can read about the syntax that makes up templates, so that i can experiment myself

thanks, works like a dream, I have one small conumdrum, I have a male married a lady and had 2 children, she died and then he remarried again and had 5 other children. I can like u say put ancestor to any in text box, but like u say this affects all marriages, obviously the new wifes children are no...

sorry for being blind, comes with getting older

hi fatewise, Thanksforyour help so far, i am going through your suggestions line by line, have started with creating marriage1, have put the following as template Marr:%IND1.FAMS>MARR.DATE:ABBREV% in %IND1.FAMS>MARR.PLAC:SHORT% to %IND1.~SPOU>NAME% when i come to test or save it says it doesnt recog...

Hi Tatewise, Must admit i am a bit confused , should I replace the atrtribute jane defined as child;, with a series of child, marriages as u have defined. I have one lady with 3 husbands and several men with two wifes, so as new to the program finding it all a bit confusing what i have to do

Spoke too soon, sorry to be a pain but whilst its nearly there as using ancestor + descendant diagram , ladies multiple husbands who have died etc are not display as they are on a all ancestors diagram, have played around with text editing with no success, have u any idea how these can be displayed ...

Used my brain for a change and changed from a all ancestors diagram to anc and dec diagram and looks good, not bothered that my direct ancestors are repeated looks good thx

Hi Jane,

Have done what u suggested and it puts all the siblings in the mothers box and is just waht i want , however the siblings are still displayed, obviously i want to remove all the ones that aren't a direct ancestor, ie just leave that one in place. Any suggestions

I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction for my display problem for all relatives. like a lot of family's my relatives years ago had numerous children, some up to 12, when these are displayed going back 5-6 generations the diagrams become very large, is there a way of compressing all ...

Mny thanks for all the help, just printed out a nice diagram of
both our families on a3, I'm sure i will be back with more questions

I have merged my family with my wifes and the combined .ged file seems to be the correct size, I have made myself the root of the combined file, I can see and display my side of the family, by selecting myn wife I can display her side of the family, unfortunately i cant see both familys together, an...

thanks for that will try and follow your instructions

my apologies if this is an old question , but being new to the software find it quite daunting with all the different options. I have created two families mine and my wifes in both we are down as married how can i create a third family that combines the two families as us as a married couple, hope t...