What's your favourite way of looking at your online family tree? For me, it's the vertical view on my Ancestry tree. There I can see how far back I've added my direct lines. It also reminds me that one of my tasks is to concentrate on adding collateral lines. That's not going very well.
Today when I logged onto my Ancestry account, I check out one of the hints which showed me the hinted tree information in a vertical manner which I found hard to read. It was disconcerting too, as I couldn't get back to my own family tree right away. But everything went back to the way I liked it after I hit the right buttons.
That was when I took a closer look at the view options and chose "Fan". That gave me a fan view of the tree with me as the centre and the generations back to my 2 x great grandparents showing. What's more, it included the dates for every person including the outer tier with those 2 x greats. That highlighted the missing years in the outer edge of my fan chart. Something else to work on.
Changing my family tree view showed the possibilities a new perspective can bring to the same old data. Maybe there was something to those charts we drew up back in the old days before genealogy went online. I'll try to remember to look at my data in different ways going forward.
* The tagline for Julia Creet's The Genealogical Sublime is: Public History in Historical Perspective
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