What other option would you suggest?
If a different color is used for each island and you have a large file, there aren't enough colors in the rainbow to distinguish all of one's islands.
If you were to use connecting lines to connect the various islands, there would be so many that the chart would look like one of those scenes in a movie where there is a million wires in a wall cabinet.
If you have a father and mother and siblings of a father - and the father and mother and siblings of a mother - and these two parents have children with spouses where you have parents and siblings - the "island" for each group of people seems to be a necessity. How else can you arrange the boxes representing people and get them all in one report (suggesting the old name: all-in-one report)?
This is one reason that FTM puts a person locator in the bottom riight of the screen. Of course, this isn't available to a reader of this report printed on paper. I would have to agree that with more than several hundred people, if this report is printed on paper, it is rather mind-boggling.
If you see that the chart is including everyone in your file and you only want people connected by blood or marriage to the selected person - you can uncheck the box in the right panel "Include everybody in this file".
If it is too complicated, I suggest to use various descendant and ancestor reports or charts to show just relevant pieces of the picture.
If a different color is used for each island and you have a large file, there aren't enough colors in the rainbow to distinguish all of one's islands.
If you were to use connecting lines to connect the various islands, there would be so many that the chart would look like one of those scenes in a movie where there is a million wires in a wall cabinet.
If you have a father and mother and siblings of a father - and the father and mother and siblings of a mother - and these two parents have children with spouses where you have parents and siblings - the "island" for each group of people seems to be a necessity. How else can you arrange the boxes representing people and get them all in one report (suggesting the old name: all-in-one report)?
This is one reason that FTM puts a person locator in the bottom riight of the screen. Of course, this isn't available to a reader of this report printed on paper. I would have to agree that with more than several hundred people, if this report is printed on paper, it is rather mind-boggling.
If you see that the chart is including everyone in your file and you only want people connected by blood or marriage to the selected person - you can uncheck the box in the right panel "Include everybody in this file".
If it is too complicated, I suggest to use various descendant and ancestor reports or charts to show just relevant pieces of the picture.