Not really. The problem is that most of browsers are badly suited for printing wide web pages, such as the one produced by Family Map. Multiple overlapping branches are not well shown during printing. Of course, you can print a small map, when it all fits onto a page in a row (use of landscape page setup comes handy), but to be honest, for such small maps, regular genealogical software gives better result, anyway.
No, it does not work under Netscape 4.*. It does not work under Opera, either. Unlike the rest of the www.tyoma.com web site, it is designed to run under Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or Gecko browsers (Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape 6 and higher).
Yes, with Gecko browsers. Internet Explorer on Mac is not supported even in the legacy mode.
32 MB RAM, Windows 95, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01.
button makes the new family map open in the same window. When I
return to the previous screen, I see that all branches are
closed. Is it possible to have several windows open at the same
time?Absolutely!
button is a regular HTML link. Click on it with the RIGHT mouse
button and select "Open in new window".Well, the Family Map is quite different from geographic maps. Genealogical map is a particular case of topological maps - the mathematical term for all sorts of maps. It is theoretically impossible to show all the information for all people without lines intersecting and nodes overlapping. You can space nodes apart, use complicated routes from point A to point B (like on electrical schemes), and use all other sorts of tricks. However, you have to stop at some point, because even if something can be presented, it does not mean it can be understood from such a scheme. Family Map Viewer is designed in such way that a relation between any two relatives, no matter how complicated, can be presented on one screen without overlapping nodes and intersecting lines. You can often show more, but not always. If you want to explore the relations of one particular person in more detail, just click on
button to
re-build the map around him or her.No. Closing a branch does not close sub-branches. Reopening the branch at a later time will return the branch to the state identical to that just before closing.
Simply because we did not think they were important. Please send an e-mail to tyoma@tyoma.com with the name of the relation, for example "greatgrandstepfather" and explain what it means in simple words, and we will be happy to add it to the relation detection subroutine. Thank you!
You have control over the privacy of your Family Map. If you decide not to share the Family Map name with anybody, it is all yours. If you do share - it is up to you. Tyoma.com does not take any initiative in sharing your data, so please provide your visitors with a correct URL or at least the FamilyMap name.
No, you cannot. The original data you downloaded is stored in some secure location outside our web server. You do not need to have your data back, because you keep the original. Your visitors do not need the original, because they get a nice Viewer from us.
Basically, to be able to delete your data from our server.
Upload your new data with the same login and password, new data file will replace the old data set.
Send an e-mail to tyoma@tyoma.com with some description of what your password looks like. We will manually delete your data.
Some advice:
- Do not give your ATM card PIN code as a password, just to be safe.
- Keep it simple and easy to remember, because that password is not as important as your financial passwords.
- Do not oversimplify your login name - if you are George, you do not want to see some other George's Family Map.
Thanks, but we do not expect any material benefits from running Family Map Viewer on our server. It is all just for fun.