Identify direct ancestors

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Pauline May Sykes said: This may not be possible but would love if we could custom colour code our direct ancestors or bold them for underline them. Just the grandparents and great gp. I always find it confusing to identify them especially when they have so many siblings. I have capitalized the last name to identify them in the family but I see that is not a good option. Any suggestions?

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Brett said: Pauline

Just a thought ...

Our DIRECT line Ancestors, namely our, Grandparents; and, Great Grandparents, (etc), are very EASILY identifiable in the "Pedigree" view; especially, the "Landscape"; "Portrait" and "Fan Chart", views in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch".

Brett

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ATP said: As Brett says re: pedigree view.

And, especially in the Landscape view where with one click it lists the names of the children who have been attached to the parents, thus showing the family, either completely or in part, depending on the thoroughness of the research.

The Landscape Pedigree helps to keep a keener focus on the family in my view, and I find it better helps in the completing the family units in the ancestral lines. In the end, completing and sealing family units is the real purpose of FSFT. Everything else is designed, however faulty the design, to accomplish this.

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Brett said: ATP

'Yes', my preference is the "Landscape" 'Pedigree' view; but, I did not want to impose my preference - did you notice I did not mention one view, that will remain 'nameless'.

Brett

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Jeff Wiseman said: Since in the shared tree all of your ancestors are also other people's ancestors, so although it might be possible, it would definitely not be real easy.

If you were using a third party application like Ancestral Quest to back up all the work you do in the FamilyTree, you would already have the capability that you want. AQ allows you to color the ancestral lines of ANYONE in your database, and you can even use custom colors for different branches. Here is an example from AQ. Other tools might give you the same capabilities:







Of course if you had this tool, you could also do other things like backup the work you do in the family tree, compare versions of records that you know were correct with changed records to quickly see what changed, and you have a myriad of very flexible charting capabilities.

And the basic tool is FREE