I run a team of workers supporting families. We have to draw genograms (family trees) and there's hundreds of fancy programs out there that will do database-dense stuff. But my staff just type and want a simple tool that can draw a simple family tree.
I was pleased to see a free 'simple family tree builder' on this site: http://jdmcox.com/ ; but interestingly, although it's very good for amateur geneaologists, it's no good for family workers. For a start there's only squares to use and the relationships are automatically generated -which is fantastic-brilliant-except we deal with incest sometimes and that throws the automatic logic loopy! To be honest, a pop-up that could link squares, circles and triangles with a combination of dotted and continuous linked lines would be just fine. So long as you could write in the shapes, that'd be fine too. So I guess a very simple flow-charter that worked on the fly and pasted image file into main program would do the job wonderfully. I know there's a variety of flow-chart programs too, but believe me, they are all a bit clumsy for our use. Come to think of it -a lot of team leaders would like an on-the-fly f.charter anyway. Anyone interested might like to look at the proper rules at http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/commstud/galvin/Genograms/Basic%20Genogram%20Components.htm ; but we don't need that level of sophistication.
thanks for thinking about it.
hh
I was pleased to see a free 'simple family tree builder' on this site: http://jdmcox.com/ ; but interestingly, although it's very good for amateur geneaologists, it's no good for family workers. For a start there's only squares to use and the relationships are automatically generated -which is fantastic-brilliant-except we deal with incest sometimes and that throws the automatic logic loopy! To be honest, a pop-up that could link squares, circles and triangles with a combination of dotted and continuous linked lines would be just fine. So long as you could write in the shapes, that'd be fine too. So I guess a very simple flow-charter that worked on the fly and pasted image file into main program would do the job wonderfully. I know there's a variety of flow-chart programs too, but believe me, they are all a bit clumsy for our use. Come to think of it -a lot of team leaders would like an on-the-fly f.charter anyway. Anyone interested might like to look at the proper rules at http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/commstud/galvin/Genograms/Basic%20Genogram%20Components.htm ; but we don't need that level of sophistication.
thanks for thinking about it.
hh
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