Fan View joins the 3 views already available: Family View, Pedigree View and List View.
Fan View provides a useful and attractive visualization of your family tree. Similar to Pedigree View, it includes a root individual and their ancestors for several generations, without siblings, spouses, or anyone else who is not a direct ancestor. Fan View looks like a fan chart that many genealogists are familiar with. However, you can navigate in it, view more information about any individual, and even add more people to the tree using it.
Like all other views, Fan View comes with the left-hand panel which conveniently displays more information on one individual in the tree. You can now switch easily between the four different family tree views using icons in the top right corner of the page.
How can I access it?
Once in your family tree on MyHeritage, click on the fan icon to access the new view, as shown below.
The root individual is displayed in the center, and each generation of ancestors is represented by another ring, growing outbound from the center. Each ancestor appears with a full name along with their years of birth and death.
The rings containing the next 3 generations (the root individual’s parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents) are thinner and their names and dates are displayed with curved text:
All subsequent generations are displayed in a fan format:
The cards have a colored outer border that indicates the relationship of the ancestor. The father’s paternal side is blue, the father’s maternal side is green, the mother’s paternal side is yellow, and the mother’s maternal side is red. The colors darken as the relationship distance from the root individual grows.
To change the root individual, hover over any ancestor to highlight that person. A shadow will appear around the card and a fan icon will appear. Click on the fan icon to change the root individual to that ancestor.
Settings
By default, Fan View shows 6 generations: the root individual and 5 generations of ancestors (up to the 3rd great-grandparents). You can choose how many generations the Fan View will display, between 4 to 10.
To set the number of generations in Fan View, use the generations dropdown menu to the left of the search box.
Ancestors in the last generation shown in the fan who have parents in the family tree will have small arrows next to their cards.
Clicking an arrow will add another generation to the Fan View.
To zoom in and out, click the + and - buttons in the toolbox at the bottom right of the screen, and to switch to full-screen mode, click on the zoom icon in the same toolbox.
For further details on the new Fan View, visit our blog post: Introducing Fan View for Family Trees.