The little icons and buttons on person profiles and trees help you navigate between different family views.
Pedigree Chart
This is the all-around "friendliest" family tree view. It's the first one you see when you click the green Family Tree tab on a profile.
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Ancestor List
This ancestor list uses the handy ahnen numbering system, i.e. it's an "ahnenlist" in geneaspeak.
It displays seven generations along with birth and death dates and locations, but no images or fancy stuff. This makes it the most information-packed view, and well-suited for printing when you're doing offline research.
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Printer-Friendly Tree
This view parallels the pedigree chart view but it is optimized for printing.
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Family Group Sheet
This illustrates nuclear families based on marriages. It's especially handy when an ancestor had children from more than one marriage. A limitation is that children won't appear in a family group if their parents were not married.
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Descendant List
This shows five generations of spouses and children.
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Wikid Shareable Tree
A public family tree view designed for sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites.
This icon will only appear if the profile's Privacy Level is "Private with Public Family Tree" or higher. Otherwise their tree is not shareable.
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Family Tree Widgets
This leads to a selection of "widgets" to enable bloggers and others to embed the person's family tree inside any blog post or web page.
Widgets only work if a profile's Privacy Level is "Private with Public Family Tree" or higher.
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Relationship Finder
This will search for a relationship between you and the person whose profile you're viewing. For example, it might tell you that the person is your "first cousin twice removed".
This icon will not appear when viewing your own profile page, for obvious reasons, but you can click to the Relationship Finder at any time and look-up the relationship between any two people.
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DNA View
Displays up to ten generations of the direct paternal and maternal ancestor lines. Other tools for genealogists who have taken DNA tests are being developed and will appear here when ready.
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Cousin Bait
Click the fish hook icon for quick and easy ways to lure cousins to the profile.
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Search for Matches
This finds potential duplicates on WikiTree.
Location Map
If the person's place of birth, marriage, or death is known, clicking this icon will pinpoint the location on a Google Map.
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See How to use WikiTree or the Help index for more tips.
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