Example Descendant (Indented)

Indented descendant charts are familiar to most genealogists. They pack a lot of information about descendants into a relatively compact format. The density of the information may be a little daunting to non-genealogists.

The Second Site Indented Descendant Chart includes controls to open and close sections of the tree. As with other chart types, the chart may be filtered to include a subset of the people who would otherwise qualify, and you may use accents to modify the appearance of selected members of the chart. In this case, my direct ancestors are highlighted in yellow using the accent feature. If you use the Collapse All button to collapse the entire chart, you can then use the yellow accent as a guide to open my direct line of descent from Timothy Houghton.

Generation numbers are shown in this chart; they are optional and may be placed before the name, after the entire name, or after the given name, as shown here.

Spouses may be included in the chart or not. When included, they appear under their partner as an additional level of indentation. Spouse names are italicized by default, and they do not include a generation number.

The dynamic controls are available on modern browsers when JavaScript is enabled. They will not appear if you are using IE7 or previous, or if JavaScript is disabled.