Selected person relationships

What it does. Colours the chart around one person. Direct relatives

have solid colours: spouses and partners, brothers and sisters (full or

half), ancestors, descendants, and the partners of brothers and sisters.

The wider family is striped in the same colour as the direct relatives

it is reached through:

• Ancestor branch: everyone descended from the person's ancestors who
  
  is not a direct ancestor, such as aunts, uncles, cousins and their
  
  families.
• Descendant branch: a child's other parent and that parent's
  
  ancestors.
• Partners of branch relatives: their husbands and wives. Their own
  
  families are not followed.
• Connected through both branches (lime): someone reached both through
  
  the ancestors and through the descendants, for example after a cousin
  
  marriage. This is not an error in the records.

Why you might use it. To see at a glance where one person's family sits

in a large chart, or how two branches of the family meet.

Where to find it. Overlays › Selected person relationships, then

click one person. It can also show while the Arrange pane is open

(Layout › Arrange › Behaviour › Show Arrange overlay).

What to expect. Each person has exactly one colour, and the legend

counts them. Colouring never changes the chart or what Arrange moves, and

it is never printed. With no one or several people selected, the chart

keeps its own colours.