{"id":10939,"date":"2025-09-21T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=10939"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:26:27","slug":"exploring-the-family-circles-diagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/exploring-the-family-circles-diagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Family Circles Diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently we learned about a new type of free online family tree diagram, authored by Michael Fagan. This diagram is unlike traditional ancestor and descendant diagrams: it uses a circular approach to show and print your relatives, from living back to deceased ancestors. The website is called Family Circles, at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/diagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/faganm.com\/diagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make a family circle diagram, you supply a GEDCOM file with information about the people you want to include. You can also add photos and update titles, etc. to the diagram. Here is an excerpt from a sample diagram on the website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-1024x675.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-1024x675.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2.png 1142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more about the Family Circle Diagram tool in <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/05\/1186\/\">this blog post<\/a> by Michael Fagan. Note that this was written before the GEDCOM upload was supported, which is now an important feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we learned about a new type of free online family tree diagram, authored by Michael Fagan. This diagram is unlike traditional ancestor and descendant diagrams: it uses a circular approach to show and print your relatives, from living back to deceased ancestors. The website is called Family Circles, at&nbsp;https:\/\/faganm.com\/diagram. To make a family circle diagram, you supply a GEDCOM&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-10939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-charts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10943,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939\/revisions\/10943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}