What is Charting Companion on Mac: FTM Support Center?

If you are looking forward to knowing more about the ‘Charting Companion on Mac’ then this is just the blog you must read. Well, it doesn’t matter whether your database holds a handful of people or thousands. The Chartings Companion for Mac is specifically developed to provide you with some amazing tools which will help you to quickly find any individual, view their family information as well as to navigate through their tree.

Family Tree Maker Charting Companion on Mac Computer:

• Go straight to the FTM menu and just click on the ‘Tools Charting Companion’ tab.
• Nevertheless, if you are looking for other genealogy programs. Then you will have to click on the ‘Charting Companion on Mac; go to the ‘Menu’ then to the ‘File Open’ tab.
• After that, you need to browse your file. But if in case, you cannot find your file then you should click on the ‘Scan Disk’ after which the Charting Companion for Mac will find your genealogy files for you.
• You now need to find a person; for which you should click on the ‘Name List’ icon or click on the menu ‘View Name List.’
• Next, you must enter a surname and a given name (optional) then click on the ‘Go to’ and ‘View’ options.
• Charting Companion on Mac – All you must do is click on the ‘Charts & Reports Ancestors Fan Chart’ and then you need to also click on ‘Preview.’
• Printing or Publishing the Chart. Once you have reviewed the chart you should click on the ‘Printer’ icon and then ‘Publish or Print.’

The Reports given in the following can be create with Charting Companion on Mac:

Family Reports

1. Family Group Record – This is the printed version of the family group view in LDS format.
2. Standard Family Group – With this variable format you get to print all user-defined events.
3. Kinship – This can print all relatives of an individual along with their relationships.
4. Hourglass Chart – With this amazing box chart you can print both ancestors and also descendants of an individual.
5. Trellis Chart – This chart lets you see everyone in your family.
6. Dandelion Chart – This helps to show everyone in your family.

Ancestors

1. Pedigree Chart – This is a traditional LDS pedigree chart of an individual’s ancestors.
2. Ancestor Chart – This shows the individual’s ancestors also it has an optional variation where you can include your siblings.
3. Ancestor Fan Chart – This is a unique ‘Fan’ presentation of individuals’ ancestors. Moreover, you can also print a full-circle or quarter-circle chart.
4. The Bowtie Chart – Now this box chart lets you an individual’s paternal line (ancestors) from the left side and the maternal line to the right side.
5. Ancestor Book – This is an individual’s ancestors that are prepared in a book format together with an index. Now even though this is simply different compared to other charts and reports. The Ancestor Book also outputs to your word processor directly so that you can do further editing as well as printing.

Descendant Reports

1. Descendant Chart – Now this box chart of an individual’s descendant lets you choose from top to bottom or left-to-right formats.
2. The Descendant Fan Chart – This is a ‘Fan’ presentation, it is of an individual’s descendants. You even get to print a full-circle or quarter-circle chart.
3. Outline Descendant – With this, you get an outline report of an individual’s descendants indented by generation. Moreover, this is also a useful summary report because only one line per person is print out.
4. Descendant Book – having this individual’s descendant can be prepare in a book format together with an index. Besides just like the Ancestor Book. The Descendant Book is also the outcome directly to your word processor for further editing and printing.

Moreover, the Charting Companion for Mac also allows you to easily print the chart or reports on any size of paper that you want.

NOTE: Remember that you should upgrade your old version of FTM software because Charting Companion works best with the latest version of FTM 2019.

It’s a great thing to know that the Descendant and Ancestor books are the output to the word processor of your choice such as Microsoft Works, WordPerfect, Lotus Ami Pro, Microsoft WordPad and Open Office. So from here, you can easily perform added editing, like adding graphics to your report before you print them out.

Also can’t forget to mention that the Charting Companion on Mac lets you preview your charts in reports before you take printouts. So you can say that this helps you to save a lot on printing costs. In addition, the fast ‘Go To’ and search functions also help you to find individual records easily. You will find this especially useful for large files.

Conclusion

We hope that you enjoy reading this blog and find all your queries answered here. For further guidance contact us at the Family Tree Maker Support Number +1-800-697-1474 or Live Chat. You will surely be assist with the most eligible team of techs who are available 24/7 round the clock.