On the main Tree tab there is Tree options button. All tree options are organized in groups on the following tabs: Content, Apearance and Persons in the tree options window.

On the Contents tab you can choose the set of relatives that you want to see in the tree. You can choose to show or hide non-blood spouses, adopted children and parents, and their relatives as well:
For example, Only direct relatives allows only direct ancestors and direct descendants of the tree root person. The root of the tree can be changed: select another person in the Persons table or in the tree and build a new tree. The selected person becomes the root of the tree.

When building a tree only on the male line, no descendants of the women are displayed in the tree. Similarly, when building a tree only on the female line, no descendants of men are displayed in the tree.

If the Spouses option is ticked, in the direct relatives tree you will also see the spouses of your children and other spouses of your ancestors (although they are not your direct relatives). Same about the blood relatives tree: if the Spouses is ticked, you will see all wives and husbands of your blood relatives although those are not your blood relatives.
If you do not want to see any ex-spouses, tick the option Do not show ex-spouses.

You can also choose how to see the adopted children and adoptive parents in the tree. If you choose No adopted children, no adopted children are shown in the tree. If you choose Adopted children as blood ones, you will see the descendants of the adopted children in your blood relatives tree. Same about the adoptive parents. If you choose Adoptive parents as blood ones, in your blood relatives tree you will see all blood relatives of the adoptive parents.

You can use the active filters of the Persons table in the tree: tick the option Apply active filters of Persons table in the tree. The tree will include only the persons who correspond to the active filters of the Persons table. If Break at filtered out persons is active, the branch of the tree is stopped at the person that does not satisfy the filter condition. If the option is off, the person that does not satisfy the filter condition is shown as a blank square and the branch of the tree continues.

Title is shown above the tree in the chosen font, and Caption under the tree is shown under the tree, by default the captions font is smaller than title font, you can change the font at Appearance tab.

If you tick Statistics, you will see the family tree statistics under the tree and statistics for each generation on the left from the tree.

If you want to build a family tree on a separate tab, tick Each tree on separate tab. It can be helpful when you want to compare the two different tree views (with different options, for example, or different backgrounds).

Auto rebuild means that the changes that are done in the tree are shown immediately. If you want to edit information in the tree tab and the tree rebuilding takes a lot of time, you can turn off the automatic rebuild, then the Rebuild button appears.

Appearance tab contains options to design your family tree chart appearance. The combination of family tree chart appearance settings (tab Appearance) and of tree nodes contents (Persons tab) is called a tree style. To save your tree style and to download a tree style (standart, compact or your own saved one) use the Load style button or Save style button over the example tree which shows the current style design.

In the left upper corner there is a drop-down list where you can choose the direction of branches in the family tree. Ancestors can be at the top of the tree, at the bottom (vertical family tree), on the left and on the right (horizontal family chart):

When the option Optimize spouses position is ticked, the spouses are located one above the other if it is possible. In some cases it is not possible to place spouses one above another, for example, in both spouses have their parents displayed in the tree, etc.

When the option Place spouses close to their parents is ticked, then in the tree of all relatives the non-blood spouses will be in the subtree of their blood relatives.

When the option Mourning ribbon on the photo of the deceased is ticked, a black ribbon mark is placed in the top left corner of the photo of deceased persons. To show the mourning ribbon for persons that do not have a photo, tick the Show contour if no photo option in Persons tab of this window, the ribbon will appear on the contour.

Distances between nodes of one branch, between branches and between generations, and also line thickness are indicated in pixels, if other units are not indicated.

The lines in the tree can be limited in their length. If the option Limit length is on, it is possible to set the maximum length: 2000 or more. The lines that exceed the set max length are replaced with arrows pointed to each other and numbers.

A tree can have No background, Two-color background (two background colors, one for even and one for odd generations) or Background image. As a background image can be used any picture of similar proportions, .jpg is recommended. In Agelong Tree you can download any of the 17 suggested images. Press the button to open a file of background, to download a background picture from our website, or to set the standard background. The button is available only if the background option is set as Image.

Please look through our designer's suggestion for the colours with our background images.

This tab provides configuration of family tree chart nodes. In the upper left corner there is a drop-down list that allows you to determine which type of nodes the settings apply to: all persons of the tree, blood relatives of the tree root, to direct relatives of the tree root, to the parents and children of the root or to the root itself:

In the Text group, you can choose the font, alignment, text interval, text margin, set the text wrap around the photo, enable selection of favourites in bold.
The button opens the list of data fields displayed in the tree chart node. For each field, you can set a word wrap, a bold or italic font, a prefix and a field suffix (for example, parentheses for life dates), and for which persons this field will be displayed: men or women, living or dead:

Relation degree name, Life date and Marriages can only be displayed it the tree by adding them to the list of the displayed fields. Any custom fields can be displayed in the tree node, they appear in the list of fields in alphabetical order. ID is a unique code in the current data file given to a person by the program. It can be shown in a tree and in a lineage list. For Relation degree name there is an option All possible names that displays all possible relations degrees of a person if there are some.

In the Photos group, you can find settings of the photo displayed in the tree node. You can set the alignment and size of the photo, turn on the frame display if there is no photo.

In the right part of the window there are settings for the colour of the tree nodes, the colour and the shape of the frame of the node.