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The Program in Pictures

Click a picture to enlarge it. All of them show the fictitious demo family tree “Familie Falkenrath”.

Program

Source manager: on the left 204 sources with author, repository and number of citations, on the right the Celle baptism register with repository, call number and all the people who cite it — Source manager. On the left all sources with repository and number of citations, on the right the selected source with repository, call number, media and all the people and families who cite it.

wtWin on Windows: Navigator with Heinrich Falkenrath, his children and four generations of ancestors — Navigator. Children on the left, the central person with their marriages in the middle, the ancestors over four generations on the right. A click makes another person the center.

Person sheet of Frieda Behnke in wtWin — Person sheet – events as a table, the family next to it, print or save as PDF.

wtTux on Linux: Navigator — wtTux on Linux – the same program, here with the demo family tree.

Tree in the centre layout: person list, family tree of Frieda Behnke, person panel — Tree in the centre – list, tree and person panel side by side.

Tree in full screen over six generations — Full screen – just the tree, here six generations.

Family view: Georg Mohwinkel and Catharine Schulze with the parents of both sides and five children, the person panel on the right — Family view – the parents of both partners at the top, the couple in the middle, the children below; the person list on the left, the person panel on the right.

Person table with 492 people: columns ID, name, sex, birth, birthplace, death, place of death, occupation — Person table – all people with sortable and filterable columns, can be saved as CSV.

Life story of Heinrich Falkenrath: godparents at the baptism, witnesses at the marriage, below them his own godparent and witness roles — Godparents and witnesses – under baptism and marriage, linked ones underlined, ⓘ shows the note, the symbol next to it the source; below, where Heinrich himself was godparent or witness.

Edit godparents dialog with a linked godmother including a note and a godfather without a record — Entering godparents – from the tree or without a record, with role, note and order.

Start screen: Connect to webtrees on the left, New family tree on this PC on the right — The first start. On the left, connect to a webtrees server; on the right, create a family tree on this PC or import one from a GEDCOM file.

Help window: chapter Charts, search for plotter with highlighted results — The help window. Table of contents, text and search – here with the results for “plotter”.

Chart window Descendant chart with the explanation for Only name bearers expanded — Explanation on hover – here “Only name bearers” in the settings of the descendant chart.

Check

Plausibility check window: the rules with number of findings on the left, the findings on the right — The rules on the left with number of findings, the findings on the right with the data that do not fit together.

Check report as PDF — As a report – print it or save it as PDF, to work through at your desk.

Charts

Create chart window with Ancestor circle — Create chart. The chart type on the left, the settings in the middle, the preview on the right.

Ancestor chart over five generations, colored by grandparent lines — Ancestor chart – starting person at the bottom, ancestors above, Kekulé numbers; colored by the four grandparent lines.

Page from the ancestor chart on pages — Ancestor chart (pages) – four generations per A4 page, with references “→ p. 5” – for a binder.

Fan chart over six generations — Fan chart – the half circle, here six generations with a frame.

Ancestor circle over seven generations — Ancestor circle – the full circle, seven generations.

Timeline of the ancestors — Timeline – life bars over a year axis – who lived when, with historical events.

Paternal line — Paternal line – the line of fathers.

Maternal line — Maternal line – the line of mothers.

Line to the oldest ancestor — Oldest ancestor – the line to the oldest known ancestor.

Descendant chart over four generations — Descendant chart – all descendants on one sheet, here with oval boxes and round photos.

Page from the descendant chart on pages — Descendant chart (pages) – a few generations per page, page overview and index of persons.

Descendants of the grandparents — Descendants of the grandparents – uncles, aunts, cousins of both sides; the parents side by side on the inside.

Hourglass chart — Hourglass chart – ancestors and descendants of one person.

Couple hourglass — Couple hourglass – the ancestors of both partners, the common descendants below.

Relationship chart — Relationship chart – the descendants of all root couples of one ancestor generation – all blood relatives.

Relationship path of two people — Relationship path – how two people are related, with the relationship in words.

Assembly plan of an ancestor chart on six A4 sheets — Large print – assembly plan for the sheets to glue together; size by width or number of sheets.

Person card — Person card – photo, life dates, parents, marriages and children, notes, sources.

Lists

Ancestor list — Ancestor list – up to 12 generations, pedigree collapse as a reference.

Descendant list — Descendant list – up to 10 generations, numbered by d'Aboville, Henry or consecutively.

Pedigree completeness — Pedigree completeness – how many ancestors are known per generation, with pedigree collapse.

Earliest ancestors — Earliest ancestors – where each line ends, ordered by grandparent lines.

Anniversary calendar — Anniversaries – births, marriages, deaths as a calendar, with place filter.

Surnames — Surnames – family names with count, period and places.

Places — Places – which families lived where and when.

Baptisms and godparents — Baptisms and godparents – the godparent roles of a whole tree.

Books

Title page of the ancestor book — Ancestor book – the title page.

Page from the ancestor book — One chapter per generation, the grandparent lines in color in the margin.

Index of names — Index by entry number: names, places, occupations, sources.

Title page of the descendant book — Descendant book – with a portrait of the progenitors.

Page from the descendant book — Numbered by Saragossa, d'Aboville, Henry or consecutively.

Page from the family book — Family book – one entry per family, alphabetical or chronological; as a local family book with place filter.

All pictures: the fictitious demo family tree “Familie Falkenrath” (CC0), photos of unknown people from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (CC0). webtrees is a project by Greg Roach and contributors; wtWin, wtTux and wtMac are independent of it. This English version is a translation by the author, not by a native speaker. Corrections are welcome as a GitHub issue.