At first I thought this comment was saying that he should make Bob Ross' family tree.
@agrama.45434 жыл бұрын
@@StarTheTripleDevil omg m2
@leiladekwatro31474 жыл бұрын
He just loves making those happy big ass trees
@whyguy124 жыл бұрын
@@StarTheTripleDevil he should
@joshygoldiem_j27993 жыл бұрын
The Joy of Charting - Season 37
@brunog37685 жыл бұрын
This is actually really nice for us Alternate History Nerds to do alternate dynasties
@petrvilimek60415 жыл бұрын
It sounds weird, but I´m kind of excited for what you´ll come up with
@Yitewewoteli-dQw4w9WgXcQ4 жыл бұрын
That means you're the only one who could make a family tree of those creepy fanfics that some people do. I salute to thee
@JoaoGabriel-et4kq4 жыл бұрын
I like to do that
@KateHistoryMysteries4 жыл бұрын
João Gabriel I have made family trees for both fanfics and essays using Wikipedia’s sandboxes.
@rachelevil4 жыл бұрын
Or those of us who spend way too much time on our D&D settings
@jasonzurlo15433 жыл бұрын
I'm almost more impressed by your charts after seeing how primitive your methodology is. Truly a testament to patience and dedication.
@TheBanjoShowOfficial2 жыл бұрын
what's primitive about it, this is how I would think anyone would do it. If anything this requires more thinking than if you just plopped names into a webpage algorithm and it did it for you. This is how I'd do it.
@jasonzurlo15432 жыл бұрын
@@TheBanjoShowOfficial I moreso meant the use of the OpenOffice software instead of something like illustrator, and also not utilizing some sort of template with all the common shapes and colors.
@WatchOnYT2 жыл бұрын
As a LibreOffice user, here's a tip if you want to mess with images only once - copy an existing image, place it where you want, make sure it's selected, and then just paste (or insert) the new picture. That way you don't need to spend so much time sizing and moving.
@layoverbear5 жыл бұрын
was not expecting my prime minister to be the unofficial subject! so happy you finally made this video.
@nicko59455 жыл бұрын
An hour long video from useful charts, sign me up regardless of the topic!!
@mikhailjoshuapahuyo14314 жыл бұрын
Now I'm making my family tree it's very useful, that's why this channel is called USEFULcharts
@alexandertan85922 жыл бұрын
This tutorial finally allowed me to draw my own proper family tree from my ancestor during the Song dynasty until today, summarizing decades of research of my roots. Thanks matt!
@lminecraft73172 жыл бұрын
1:01 Can we all appreciate that he does all the work manually and considering the size of the chats he makes, must take a lot of time. He has to resize and type every single thing by himself. Wow.
@GregorSchafroth Жыл бұрын
Yes this is fantastic. It does give him an opportunity to think through the whole story again tho, so that's not just boring technical work I'd say :)
@RH-vr7cs4 жыл бұрын
I bought several of your charts. They are amazingly accurate and impressive. The work , effort, knowledge you are giving us is extremely valuable and saves on us the thousands of hours you spent preparing them .
@luxor3145 жыл бұрын
you should do a harry potter family tree and do the peverell family because almost every major harry potter character is descended from the three peverell brothers
@spirituallyours64whengnats694 жыл бұрын
Craft.
@trashvideoboi12204 жыл бұрын
That’s Actually a good idea
@sparksbet4 жыл бұрын
while there is a lot of very detailed info out there which you could use to make Harry Potter family trees, the Peverells are so far back in the relevant characters' histories that you'd have to skip a great number of generations between them and the oldest descendants we know any information about. also, as far as I'm aware from my own research into the Harry Potter family trees, only the Potters and the Gaunts are directly descended from the Peverells. This ties into the Weasley family by Harry's marriage to Ginny, but still most Harry Potter characters do not have any blood relation to the Peverells that we know of -- it's just Harry and Voldemort specifically. If the other major Harry Potter characters are descended from the Peverells, this isn't documented within any Harry Potter material that I'm aware of.
@luxor3144 жыл бұрын
@@sparksbet yes I phrased that poorly The Potters and the Gaunts are the only ones who are actually directly descended from The Peverells but as you said that ties the Weasleys in with Harry's Marriage to Ginny but since most of the Pure-blood families are related (either by marriage or blood). you could connect other Pureblood families from the Weasleys. I think It would be cool to see how all the Pure-Blood families relate to one another.
@redera95603 жыл бұрын
I made a pretty accurate one but there are no generation skips so none of the peverells are there but yeah
@Macion-sm2ui5 жыл бұрын
Great video. When I was younger I was making my own royal family trees, but they was ugly. Now if I want to return to my old hobby or make nice tree of my familly I know how. Thanks :) (sorry for my english)
@michaelsmullen98913 жыл бұрын
Impressed with your patience and attention to detail in what is essentially a laborius task. You must love what you do!
@junolee88265 жыл бұрын
aaaahh thank you so much for this video!!! im working on a historical novel that spans 15 or so generations and ive never been happy with how their genealogy chart looks when i draw it by hand, so im 100% gonna use this!!!
@robertfraser59942 жыл бұрын
Back in 1988 before the existence of flow charting software, I designed a gigantic chart using MacDraw in the same way you describe here. To avoid drawing each element from scratch, I created templates. I created a storage form with my most commonly used elements arrayed on the storage page. Then I could copy and paste them into the new chart I was creating. The colors of various boxes and lines were already created, so all I had to do was click on the text within a box and type in my new label. If a line wasn't long enough, I would slide the element where I needed it and then grab the line and extend it or change its length by entering a length number. You have so many charts drawn now that it could be that you can reuse most of it for a new chart that is similar. In that case, you could save a copy of the original, retitle it as the new chart, and then proceed to enter the new data. It might be best to backspace out the data from the original chart so that an orphan from the original does not remain in the new chart. I know that for tutorial purposes you were demonstrating how you would start with a blank file. Maybe you are already reusing elements and groups of elements, or have an even better system for saving yourself from having to start each new chart from scratch.
@andybawn14 жыл бұрын
Hi ya. nice video thank you, hope you don't mind but I have a couple of point.1. there is a crop tool in Libre just right click the image. 2. Select the box and the image, right click and group them together they will then move as one and finally 3, use connectors not lines to join the boxes, the connectors will glue to the box and will follow the box where ever it goes. Hope this helps and speeds up your wonderful charts
@tompov2275 жыл бұрын
The charts you make are already impressive but seeing the process makes it all the more impressive. What did you use to record the whole screen in Ubuntu??
@UsefulCharts5 жыл бұрын
Kazam
@mukarramali2 жыл бұрын
@@UsefulCharts currently what software/app do you use record the screen in Mac Matt?
@John-qo9hw2 жыл бұрын
@@mukarramali command+shift +5 should do the trick in Mac
@mukarramali2 жыл бұрын
@@John-qo9hw I do that, but whenever I am screen recording I have to be very careful with my cursor otherwise my whole PDF just randomly moves. This annoys me a lot, plus there is added distraction of scrolling tab visible on the right side of the screen. Matts video’s not just have High quality and detailed view of the posters but also very good animations associated with the particular topic he is recording over.
@Xcerptshow2 жыл бұрын
7:25 Where does Castro fit in?
@arrtemfly4 жыл бұрын
it's always great to see your favourite content maker use free and open source software!
@nugget7236 Жыл бұрын
Foss is over rated
@nannerz19945 жыл бұрын
I love this, and how you're overly detailed in your explanations. I had assumed you were a Photoshop extraordinaire
@UsefulCharts3 жыл бұрын
Post your creations on our subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/UsefulCharts/
@Njoofene4 жыл бұрын
As someone who have been working with family tree software for years, this is the best way of customising your family tree - exactly how you want it. Family tree software that I've used (and `I have used many over the years) are pretty basic and did not give me the option to customised the tree exactly how I wanted and planned to right from the beginning. As such, I have transferred my family tree to Libra Office Draw manually. It is pretty time consuming though expecially if you have have over 3000 people in your tree like I have.
@Britishgeohistorian2 жыл бұрын
how did you reasearch all of them?
@Njoofene2 жыл бұрын
@@Britishgeohistorian Family documents; interviews with elderly relatives - most of whom have died now (I would advise you do this first before looking at documents and before it is too late); birth, marriages and death records, etc. My family history is well documented and it goes on for centuries. The reason why the tree is so large is because it includes cousins and their descendants. There were lots of cousin marriages especially in the old days for dynastic and cultural reasons.
@Britishgeohistorian2 жыл бұрын
@@Njoofene Ok. Thanks for your help I think I will look in my country's national archives to start my own
@gforceneonaxetake23452 жыл бұрын
Dude, the amount of time it must take you to create a FULL family tree, especially a royal one MUST BE EXHAUSTING, and very time consuming
@powerfulaura51663 жыл бұрын
Great to see such a big creator using free/libre & open-source software.
@syamilmohamad20245 жыл бұрын
Hi there, please do the family tree for Kedah Sultanate, they are one of the oldest monarch which is still exist today.
@MrAntonla5 жыл бұрын
Great video, just a small correction: Actually, James Sinclair was an MP until 1958, but his riding (electoral district) was redistibuted in 1947, and thus changed riding in 1949. BTW, Justin Trudeau's 5th great grandfather, Major-General William Farquhar, was the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore.
@cheerbozz4 жыл бұрын
@Anton Lindequist Ariens Justin Trudeau is a Trudeau, the relevant people are his paternal French Canadian aka Acadian side not his mom side who were among the first French settlers in Canada Next time don’t waste your time on useless crap !
@MrAntonla4 жыл бұрын
@@cheerbozz Why would his maternal ancestors be less relevant than his paternal ancestors? I was merely pointing out a mistake in the video and giving what I thought was an interesting factoid. Besides I would say it is you who "waste your time on useless crap" by attacking a more than a year old comment which was simply stating facts.
@drswag00763 жыл бұрын
and this videos is the reason why there are fan made charts in your style. people watched it, and took note and went to town.
@thebluegrassgenealogist13005 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for doing a video on this. :) I have always liked the simple, but straight forward charts you do and always have wondered how you went about doing them. They do look good framed on my wall and my wife told me I should do my own charts for our families like yours. I know there are genealogy chart programs, but I usually do not like how they are formatted and are less manageable, at least the ones I've used.
@thebluegrassgenealogist13005 жыл бұрын
I wanted to do a follow up comment. I have figured out you can do this exact thing also in Microsoft Publisher as well as LibreOffice Draw. I have started doing my own family tree starting with me and going up the tree. This is really neat. :)
@bujin19775 жыл бұрын
Have you been spying on me? Only last week I was actually looking at your videos to see if I could work out how you draw your trees as I wanted to create one for the medieval Welsh Princes & Kings!
@JorgeHernandez-bl2ms5 жыл бұрын
I've always been curious about this
@togamac4 жыл бұрын
The speed and clarity of your presentation is just right! It allows me to easily toggle back and forth between my project and your tutorial. Great job! Thank you! I have one problem though. I've lost my sidebar and although I've managed to get it back, I can't get it to look like the original, i.e., the one with the text fonts, sizes, line, paragraph,area, etc.
@togamac4 жыл бұрын
Forget it! I figured it out.
@feliciagaffney1998 Жыл бұрын
This is perfect! Thank you!! I'm working on a specific family group of my ancestry, and want to diagram it with a simple descendancy chart. I'm mainly tracking 2 generations (some on the 3rd lvl down, as well) and just want to show the connection to my great grandmother. (Her great aunts and uncle is what I'm working on.) I can't find any descendancy charts I can just plug my stuff into (and make simple modifications for each generation) like the Word version ancestral charts I've been using forever. And I can't just flip the charts around to use for descendants. I'm not opposed to creating my own, I just wasn't sure how to go about getting started. So, thank you very much!!!
@theportuguesehistorian60935 жыл бұрын
If you are to run out of room, how do you make the work space bigger?
@ocbee61754 жыл бұрын
The Portuguese Historian squish the family tree. Make it smaller. That works best
@saskiaviking94475 жыл бұрын
Yes finally I know which software to use! I was using Keynote on Mac (not very efficient but doable) for family trees (I made one of Poland) so thanks so much for informing me!
@Gamer-lq6zy4 жыл бұрын
Your family looks awesome
@hackenlee34357 ай бұрын
Good tutorial!Easy to understand.
@lorraineaylward81672 жыл бұрын
Thanks late this. I joined the subreddit and bookmarked your site. Great work.
@mateodo86694 жыл бұрын
Doing this kind of stuff manually makes you a true Legendary.
@GurenGaaze5 жыл бұрын
This is way easier than I first imigined! Thank you for this! :D Love your videos btw :)
@kamroz05025 жыл бұрын
Can you please do a polish royal family/ kings/queens chart!!!
@victormezynski97275 жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for poland since I got here from the Who would be king of america video
@faithhope18824 жыл бұрын
Really good lesson thank you...I just came across your videos which is going to save me a great deal of time as I was using MS Word to create my charts. Thank you
@mai_world3 жыл бұрын
Amazing tutorial! Thanks, Matt!
@patricksmith31355 жыл бұрын
This was a great video: super subject: interesting technology and well presented. Bravo.
@applepieke69702 жыл бұрын
If it already took one hour to make that, I don't want to know how long it takes when you make one of those very big ones
@loganplayz36092 жыл бұрын
Probably like 30 hours + 20 hours research
@matheanotmafia98113 жыл бұрын
fun fact: Justin Trudeau is a direct descendant of william farquhar, one of the founders of my hometown, singapore. When Justin trudeau visited Singapore a while back, he even took a selfie with the grave of Esther Bernard (originally Esther Farquhar), his great x4 (i think) grandmother.
@ceckataceckata53574 жыл бұрын
Cool. How would you put in the chart birth parents together with adoptive parents, when they're all known?
@erikaheck8261 Жыл бұрын
This takes some serious patience omg. This is not your typical family tree tracker. Sheesh
@ugcheleuce2 жыл бұрын
OpenOffice was originally called Star Office, and it was not originally made for Linux. It was originally made for MS DOS, but by 1997 had a version that ran on Linux as well, after a commercial Linux distributor created a Linux version of it. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are associated with Linux mostly because it is opensource software, and many people think that all well-known opensource programs all started out as Linux programs.
@TheJoshtheboss7 күн бұрын
Wow, didn't realise it was such a manual process. Thought a specilised software for genealogy was used. What if you find out toward the end of the project that you you're missing some important data and need to rearrange everything?
@abdulzaher89814 жыл бұрын
Matt your voice is so soothing
@Aima9524 жыл бұрын
Some how knowing that you don't use software that makes things easier than I could do it on Microsoft Publisher makes your charts even more impressive!
@MaJetiGizzle4 жыл бұрын
Really cool that you use Linux and particularly what seems to be Ubuntu as your distro. Nice. 🙂👍🏼
@gabrielbryangalope37104 жыл бұрын
I really like your charts. Hope you continue to do these content!!! God bless you!
@Richard-zm6pt4 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for the demonstration. I have downloaded LibreOffice now and have begun a descendancy chart for one of my own family lines. I'm not sure it is the most efficient way to do it, but to have a chart designed in a particular way for presentation, it is a great tool. Now, how do you create such large charts. I need to do that with this very large family.
@GregorSchafroth Жыл бұрын
I used to look for some kind of drawing software for a totally different purpose and suddenly your charts came to my mind. Thanks for sharing so much! (before I just used Apple Keynote and made a big page there, but Keynote now keeps crashing and apparently is just not made for so many objects on a page)
@collinssportstalk75044 жыл бұрын
@UsefulCharts can you tell me what four cut double click means plz
@redera95603 жыл бұрын
When you aren’t explaining things, how long does it take to make a family tree
@chileanywayso2 жыл бұрын
I currently use this to make family trees, and now my Elizabeth II and George Washington Relationship tree is one of the most popular from this week.
@OwenB112611 ай бұрын
yo i think we relate does it also have Robert E Lee
@irishdawn83873 жыл бұрын
love this demo, wish we could see move of these of how you do an actual tree WIP in the future!
@wunnatxj9885 жыл бұрын
You should do who would be king of Greece if Alfred,Duke of Edinburgh-and later the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha(second son of Queen Victoria and Albert,the Prince Consort) accepted the throne and succeeded Otto I in 1862.
@evileyeball2 жыл бұрын
My main tree that I have made Is in a spreadsheet and goes back from me (using data sourced from my mothers work on our tree) to my 9th great granparents. As what I did is made one sheet that goes from me back to my Second great grandparents and then made a seperate sheet for each of those families with 2-9th great on it because the fan was much too large otherwise It takes 256 Spreadsheet rows to properly display my 9th great grandparents on a chart with 2nd through 9th... you can imagine how much more it would be if I started at Me
@danilapolesciuk43162 жыл бұрын
A spreadsheet? Like Excel?
@junramos2002Ай бұрын
Hi Sir, after creating the charts, what software do you use to turn them into videos (and how do you navigate thru the chart and make lines move to highlight boxes and paths)? Thanks a lot!
@StarTheTripleDevil5 жыл бұрын
I didn't even know LibreOffice and OpenOffice were the same thing until this video. I always thought they were separate things since my laptop has always had LibreOffice and my PC has always had OpenOffice.
@jesuschrist81785 жыл бұрын
I’ve always used Family Echo for my family trees. Very easy to use.
@bewarebeware76585 жыл бұрын
Me too. I've been trying to make a Warriors family tree, but I want there to be colors for each Clan. That is impossible in FamilyEcho. (I'm talking about the book series by Erin Hunter.)
@Weesperbuurt5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to share
@Mahinique4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see Family Trees featuring Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and DARK characters.
@oscardrawsit5 жыл бұрын
Is there a video with the kings of Belgium ?? If not could you make one pls ??? :)
@NayanKale14 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt, this video has been very useful, I created one for my own family :)
@gothenix5 жыл бұрын
I needed this so much Bloody hell mate, thanks
@DougVandegrift4 жыл бұрын
How do you animate the line during the videos? Like when you’re highlighting something and a line draws down in real-time?
@maximilianorojas8352 жыл бұрын
Excellent tutorial, congrats With this information, I'll be able to do my family charts
@bared4733 жыл бұрын
My main question is : how do you do for very large family tree, because the page isn't that big...
@CJMapping11 ай бұрын
Are you thinking about making a section on the useful charts website for people to make their own custom family trees like this?
@CJMapping11 ай бұрын
But it’s like where they just put in names and it automatically makes the boxes
@jellybumfruitcakes4 жыл бұрын
I have a question...for the lengthy family trees, do you fit it all on that one page or is there a way of making the page bigger?
@ginadewenter49684 жыл бұрын
On the top under page and then properties (where he also changed the orientation to landscape) you can also edit the width and height of the page to whatever you want
@144Tropical Жыл бұрын
Very fascinating. Thank you for sharing. MANILA, PHILIPPINES
@thelittletyrant55394 ай бұрын
That's something I didn't expect from this channel. I wonder if you still use it today?
@Doctorwhotrucking777 ай бұрын
You could group and ungroup box and photo so nothing moves less u want it to. Saw that on another video.
@stellarconcealment5 жыл бұрын
What do you do if the family tree gets so big that you need to make the background larger?
@hottubmobileneil5 жыл бұрын
I am not Neil , It might be interesting to see the Castro family tree as well ?
@snigdha84045 жыл бұрын
Will you ever do a video about the royal family tree of Hawaii?
@slamwall90574 жыл бұрын
He did that
@theahagamer51303 жыл бұрын
What format do you use for your royal family trees? I think it’s A1 but I wanna be sure. Please respond, Love your charts
@panzertorte5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing, that auto-align trick will be a life-saver for me this coming term ;) I already use LibreOffice's writing program, but I think I deleted Draw in the belief that I didn't need it. I'll definitely give it another go! Making your interconnected charts like this must be a nightmare, though! ;)
@elijah6135 жыл бұрын
Awesome cant wait to try it out!
@ctplanning81375 жыл бұрын
Have you ever made a family tree where the generations are not in "swimlanes" but instead the y value for a person is their birthdate?
@randomstranger87055 жыл бұрын
This is what i have been waiting for... Yeyyy
@baskywater7794 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this!
@WaluigiPlushBros2 жыл бұрын
Dang that Western European monarchs chart must’ve been a nightmare to develope
@gibsoncash79324 жыл бұрын
How would you do it like for the European chart do you use one document or copy and past some together?
@UsefulCharts4 жыл бұрын
One big document.
@gibsoncash79324 жыл бұрын
Ok thanks. I have been using it for a thing I am a friend of mine do. And it seems to be small so are you suppose to extend the doc more or keep it the way it is?
@HebaruSan5 жыл бұрын
I like "copy image to clipboard" in my browser followed by ctrl+shift+v in GIMP to paste to new image, saves having a bunch of temp files sitting around
@jacobscrackers984 жыл бұрын
There are special folders especially for temporary files in MacOSX ($TMPDIR and /tmp), Windows (%Temp% I think) and Linux (/tmp).
@rafaeljohnvillaruz21005 жыл бұрын
@Usefulcharts This Is Amazing!!! I Think I Can Make My Own Family Tree.
@gilgalbiblewheel63135 жыл бұрын
What length and width do you make your posters in the program?
@UsefulCharts5 жыл бұрын
24x36"
@gilgalbiblewheel63135 жыл бұрын
@@UsefulCharts And what is the length and width of the boxes of people and fonts used? I want to compare the size of the posters in relations to the writing.
@daumkila3 жыл бұрын
My family is big and it doesn't fit in this How to make fit in one page?
@ead67434 жыл бұрын
Hey! I've been loving your videos! Amazing work, but quick question, when you make those hyper dotted lines, your rectangles go up vertically, and mine lay down horizontally. Is there any way to switch that around?
@samuelbousfield43424 жыл бұрын
HE HAS TOLD US THE SECRETS I WILL MAKE MANY FAMILY TREES
@samuelbousfield43424 жыл бұрын
@Coolninja 7011 uhhhhhhhhh your moms haha
@shastagoldminer Жыл бұрын
hey matt..new to channel...juts found it,,,very awesome stuff,,love it...watched some of the bible family tree...pretty cool..but am in to doing family tree research n have always used family tree maker,,but the charts are not as good as yours...plus ive used ancestry n others...but havnet rsearched extent of graphs,,are charts,,,but couple questions,,,your printing these out in formats,,i see which is cool.. have you ever did a chart on canvas??????
@danieltoth-nagy50974 жыл бұрын
@UsefulCharts, I couldn't find this in your blog, have you posted it? Where can I download it? Thank you!
@Gaby-sc6il3 жыл бұрын
Waouh ! There is à Big difference between french time names and canadians ones. Sorry for my english. In France, Justin is newer and xavier for exemple is à bit old
@evileyeball2 жыл бұрын
Hahaha Ater watching one of your videos I headed into draw and made some charts relating to my own family which is funny
@gearoidp5 жыл бұрын
Great video, very detailed on your process.
@LongChâu-t7y5 күн бұрын
what does the free stuff on your website do? do you download the charge or you just get them physically for free?