By default, a descendant chart starts with the selected person, and continues down 7 generations, or, if there aren’t 7 generations of descendants, will stop earlier.
The number of generations to include, can be set from the “General” tab of the “Chart Properties” panel:
It is also to have more fine-grained control of stopping who appears on charts. For example, on a particular chart, you may not want to include the descendants of a particular person, even if they are in the database. There are various ways that this can be done.
Starting with the following chart, we will look at ways various ways to stop the chart from show William’s descendants, or reduce the levels of detail on him or his wife (and her other spouses).
First, make sure that the person who you want to stop at is selected (in the above case, William Smith who married Lucy Evans), and go to edit the “Chart Properties” panel, and select the “Person” tab.
If we enter text in the “To Text(stops)” box, the chart will not follow William’s spouses/descendants at all, but will instead draw a down arrow and the relevant text:
This is useful if you want to break a large chart into multiple smaller charts.
We can also use the “Stop at me:” drop down box to set various other ways in which the chart should stop with William.
Default: Stops with William, but shows his wife folded into his entry and the symbol used to indicate that there were children not shown here.
Leaf: Just shows information on William, ignores any spouses or children.
Quiet: Includes the spouse (folded), but ignores children.
No children: Includes the spouses and step-spouses, but ignores children.
Ignore: The selected person is completely ignored, as though they don’t exist. The person in question, nor any spouses or children, is not shown on the chart at all (no picture, as William isn’t included at all!)