TreeDraw imports a tree starting from the root person. For a descendant tree this person will be at the top and the tree will display all his/her descendants. For an ancestral tree the root person is at the bottom and the tree will display all his/her ancestors. For a wheel chart the root person is in the middle and his/her ancestors are displayed around the wheel.

The root person list allows you to find the person you want to use quickly.

If you know the RIN of the person you are looking for simply type it into the RIN box (RIN stands for Record Identification Number). As you do so the list will scroll to that person (assuming that the RIN is valid). The RINs are the same as those used in the Legacy database.

If you want to scroll through the list, first select the field which you want the list sorted by. The currently selected sort field is the one with the bold name at the top of the list. To change it, simply click on the field name you want the list sorted by.

Some sort fields allow you to enter a search string below the list which will scroll the list automatically to entries beginning with that string. For example, to go straight to all the people whose surnames begin with GO, click on "Surname" at the top of the surname column and then type GO into the "Surname" box at the bottom of the form.

The "Birth date" column will show either a person's birth or christening date depending on which is available in the Legacy data. A "b." denotes that it is a birth date and a "c." that is a christening date. Due to limitations in the Legacy database, if you select the "Birth date" column for sorting the list, all christening dates will be shown before all birth dates. Note that the "Birth place" column shows only the data from the Legacy Birth Place field, even if a christening date is displayed in the "Birth date" column. This is also due to a limitation in the Legacy database.

Import profiles let you store a particular style of setup for importing trees; eg. fonts, line styles, etc. Select a profile for this tree here if you do not want to use the current settings.

Set this option if you want to include dates, places and other information for individuals. The data included in the person's details is defined in "Options | Preferences | Import fields | Person details".

Set this option if you want to include dates, places and other information for families. The data included in the family's details is defined in "Options | Preferences | Import fields | Marriage details". If this option is not set, the "Marriage indicator" data type is used instead of the "Marriage details" data type.

Set this option if you want to include data from events for individuals and marriages. The data included in events is defined in "Options | Preferences | Import fields | Events".

Set this option if you want to have the marriage details of people who have more than one marriage linked by a dashed line. This option is not available in Ancestral trees. The style of line used can be set in "Options | Preferences | Import visuals | Marriage line style".

Set this option if you wish to exclude the birth and christening dates of people who are still alive.

Set this option if you want to include people, events or addresses which have the "Private" or "Invisible" flag set against them in Legacy.

Set this option if you wish to have associated tree elements (such as a person's name and details) automatically grouped together. This is very useful later when you will want to move the tree elements around.

Set this option if you wish to have a stamp/statistics box added at the bottom of the tree. The statistics include the name of the imported tree file, date created and number of people, families and generations. The stamp is your personalised mark which may be your name and address or whatever information you wish. To modify your stamp, see "Options | Preferences | Import visuals | Text to include in statistics box".

Set this option if you wish TreeDraw to check for duplicated branches (eg. where cousins have married) or invalid relationships (eg. someone is his own grandfather). "DUPLICATE" in red will be added to all people which appear more than once in the tree. TreeDraw will also truncate the tree at the duplicated person except on the first occurrence so that branches of the tree are not duplicated. If this option is not set, any invalid relationships will cause TreeDraw to loop endlessly and not complete the import.

Set this option to have TreeDraw automatically put boxes around the text for descendant/ancestral trees or circles around the wheel chart. The line style and fill pattern/colour for the boxes can be set in "Options | Preferences | Import visuals".

Set this option if you wish to automatically join the linking lines together.

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If you set All Generations, every descendant or ancestor will be included. If you require to limit the depth of the tree, clear the All Generations box and enter a number in Expand to ... generations. Entering 0 will produce a tree with only the root person, 1 will include his/her children or parents (depending on the tree type), and so on.

Four formats of Descendant or Ancestral tree are available and the selected layout is displayed in this box. Select Extend generations vertically if you wish children to proceed across the page and generations from top to bottom and Extend generations horizontally for the opposite arrangement. Select Align tree left (or top) to justify the tree to the left or top (depending on the Extend generations option) and Align tree centre to produce a centred tree.

For wheel charts you can include some Extra width which makes each band of the wheel wider than required by the text so that the outer bands can accommodate all the text.