
Once you have created your chart, you can: To create a family chart, click the “Charts” button and select “Chart wizard.” You can also select the root individual from the profile list on the left, right-click, hover your cursor over “Charts,” and select “Chart wizard.” Follow the instructions to select the design and style of your chart and to generate it. High-resolution PDFs produce higher-quality prints, but lower-resolution images are easier to share online and can be more easily uploaded to a personal website.
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Additionally, while on the MyHeritage site all charts are saved as high-resolution PDFs, on FTB you can choose whether to save your chart as a high- or low-resolution PDF or JPEG. On the MyHeritage site, you can’t edit a chart once it’s been generated, but on FTB, you can. Charts and reportsīoth the MyHeritage site and Family Tree Builder offer a feature that allows you to create beautiful family tree charts, but the FTB version is easier to use and more flexible. Click here to read more about Tribal Quest. Using Family Tree Builder offline, they were able to document local tribes’ family histories straight from the heart of the Amazon, the Namibian desert, the Siberian tundra, and the remote island of Papua New Guinea - helping these tribes preserve that information for future generations. This feature allowed the MyHeritage team to build detailed family trees from remote locations as part of the Tribal Quest project. This allows you to work on your family tree even when you have no internet access or while traveling. Family Tree Builder, however, allows you to edit your family tree normally while you are offline, and the changes are saved locally on your computer - and then synced to your family site the next time you’re online. The MyHeritage mobile app and your family site on are only accessible with a functioning internet connection. Just click on one of the names to bring that person’s profile into focus. It gives you a bird’s eye view of your tree, making it easy to find profiles and jump from one to another. That’s where the left-hand profile list comes in handy. This helps you focus your research, but may make it hard to see the big picture. Profile listįamily Tree Builder displays only 1-2 profiles at a time. You can also add a person to an existing task by selecting the task and clicking “Add Person to Task” in the “Manage To-Do Tasks” window. When a person has an assigned task, a task icon will appear in their profile card. You can add a new task by opening the “View” menu, selecting “To-Do Tasks,” and clicking “New task.” To assign a task to someone, click “Add” in the lower segment of the New Task window and select their name from the list.Īlternatively, you can click the “Edit” button in the profile card of the person to whom you wish to assign the task, hover your cursor over the “Person” menu, select “Tasks,” and click “Add task.” The person whose profile you entered from will be automatically assigned to this new task.

If you want to focus your research on a specific person, you can easily open the tasks list and view the tasks that are associated with that individual.

This way, when you have some time to work on your family tree, you can simply take a look at the task list.

In Family Tree Builder, you can set tasks and assign them to yourself. Keeping a list of tasks can help you stay on top of your research and fill in the blanks later.

When managing a long-term research project, you may start adding information to your family tree without having all the details in place. These lesser-known tools can help you better research your family history and maintain your family tree. This article focuses on useful tools available in Family Tree Builder that you may have missed. MyHeritage offers three different platforms for working on your family tree: the online website, the mobile app (for both iOS and Android), and our software, Family Tree Builder.
