I've got a frightful one in the case of a ggmother who had 4 lines of
descent from a couple living in the C17th including the fun complication
of one intermediate ancestor having married twice with descents via
children of both marriages.
I invented my own notation & drew it in LibreOffice Draw. My
representation of a family is in the form of
Father
= Mother DoM
Child 1 DoB
...
Child n DoB
with boxes drawn round each individual and lines to the children where
they in turn appear as parents in the next generation of families. In
order not to overcrowd the dates are years only. Thus the first couple are
Thomas B(eardsell) I
= Mary Armitage 1655
Joshua I 1662
Arthur 1665
I don't have a marriage or wife's name for Joshua I so I've omitted the
mother line & his family is just
Joshua B I
Joshua II 1692
Joshu II is the one with two marriages. I don't have the marriage or
maiden name for the first wife, just her burial:
Joshua B II
= Leah d 1732
Joshua III 1720
= Grace Taylor 1734
Thomas II 1738
In addition the boxes are colour coded for each surname that extends for
more than one generation so all Beardsells are coloured yellow, all
Croslands are cyan etc. This gives me a diagram with 14 families.
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Ian
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