{"id":2087,"date":"2016-02-15T18:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2016-02-15T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:40:50","slug":"not-a-bigger-chart-i-want-the-multiple-relationship-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"Not a Bigger Chart–I Want the Multiple Relationship Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

[opinion alert]<\/p>\n

Legacy Software had the “World’s Largest Family Tree Chart<\/a>” at Rootstech in Salt Lake City recently. I wish they’d find a different type of family group to display instead of printing a chart that extends “as far back as possible.” It tends to make some think that the goal of research is simply to get back as far back as you can and that if your tree doesn’t go back that far then you simply must be doing it wrong or haven’t tried hard enough.<\/p>\n

There has to be a way they can make a “big tree” without extending a pedigree back several thousand years. I get the impact a “big chart” makes in a convention center. But there has to be another way to put that many names on a chart without going back to the beginning of time to do it.<\/p>\n

I’ve never been impressed with “large” charts, especially charts that claim to go back to Adam and Eve or even to the early Christian Era. There are a variety of issues with the accuracy of genealogical connections\u00a0extending that far back.<\/p>\n

A few random thoughts:<\/p>\n