Chart layout example
The process of creating a chart using this system has the following steps:
1. Specify the structure of the chart by listing its components.
2. Have the system generate a skeletal chart from the component list.
3. Edit the skeletal chart by entering the actual data for each individual in the appropriate box.
These steps are illustrated below. 		Return to LineageCharts.com home
1. Component list:
ChartStart
MarriedCouple
SplitBegin
SplitConnectionFemaleSpouseFirstPosition
MarriedCouple
FemaleConnection
MarriedCouple
MaleConnection
FullWidthPerson
SplitSeparator
SplitConnectionMaleSpouseLastPosition
MarriedCouple
FemaleConnection
MarriedCouple
FemaleConnection
MarriedCouple
FemaleConnection
MarriedCouple
MaleConnection
MarriedCouple
FemaleConnection
MarriedCouple
FemaleConnection
MarriedCouple
FemaleConnection
MarriedCoupleNCS
SplitEnd
ChartEnd		 2. Resulting skeletal chart before editing:

Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Person's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
Husband's name, data.
Wife's name, data.
3. Chart after editing:

Elisha Jones (1710-1775) of Weston, Mass., magistrate, member of the General Assembly, militia officer.
Mary Allen (1714-1751).
Rev. Asa Dunbar (1745-1787), Harvard graduate of 1767.
Mary Jones (1748-1830).
John Thoreau (1787-1859).
Cynthia Dunbar (1787-1872).
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862).
Ephraim Jones (1750-1812), native of Weston, Mass., Loyalist soldier, Upper Canadian judge, politician and businessman (Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, pp. 456-58).
Charlotte Coursolles (1756-1803).
John Stuart, Jr. (1777-1829) of Brookville, Upper Canada, son of Rev. John Stuart, "Missionary to the Mohawks," and Jane Okill.
Sophia Jones (1785-1837).
Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Bt. (1798-1862), Prime Minister of the United Canadas, 1854-56, legislative leader, promoter of Canadian railroads.
Mary Stuart (1812-1846).
William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle (1832-1894), British M.P., 1857-65, 1868-74, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Canada, 1854-56, Treasurer of the Queen's Household, 1859-66, British Under Secretary for War, 1878-80, 1885-86.
Sophia Mary MacNab (1832-1917).
Hon. George Keppel (1865-1947), army officer.
Alice Frederica Edmonstone (1869-1947), known as Mrs. Alice Keppel, social leader, friend and confidante of King Edward VII.
Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe (1899-1962).
Sonia Rosemary Keppel (1900-1986).
Maj. Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (1917-2006).
Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921-1994).
Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland and Earl of Chester (b. 1948).
Camilla Rosemary Shand (b. 1947), formerly married to Brigadier Andrew Henry Parker Bowles, OBE. 
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