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CHAPTER 7 ADDING/MODIFYING A PERSON'S INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION...
For someone who is typing in their genealogy by hand from
scratch, the Person Area will be the area most frequently
used. The Person Area is used for creating a person and/or
editing information about a person. To get to this area from
the outside in:
Run GIM
Select the desired folder in the Folder Area
Open the folder (and go into the Multi Area)
Select the desired person as the target person
Edit that person (press <F1> or <Enter>)
DESCRIPTION...
The Person Area is reminiscent of a specialized form to be
filled out, but on the computer. There are spaces and fields
which can be filled in, or the information which is already
there can be changed. Information which is typically
associated with a person is:
Name (given and surname)
Gender
Birth (date, place, and notes)
Christening (date, place, and notes)
Death (date, place, and notes)
Burial (date, place, and notes)
Baptism (date, place, and notes)
Endowment (date, place, and notes)
Sealing to Parents (date, place, and notes)
General notes
Ancestral File number
Reference number
A person in GIM is a very specialized thing and is a record or
collection of information about a real person, but is strictly
limited to that individual. For example, a specific birthdate
is uniquely associated with only one person (excluding any
coincidence). A marriage date, on the other hand, can pertain
to two people, and that marriage date in GIM is located in a
family record (a "GIM family record"). So if the information
which you are looking for is not in the Person Area, go try
looking in the Family Area.
LAYOUT...
The appearance of the Person Area is like a form on the screen
with various empty or filled in areas/fields. You can move
around between the different fields by pressing the arrow
keys. There is more information in the Person Area than can
fit on one screen (when the diplay is in the 25 line mode).
To look at more fields, press either the up or down arrow many
times.
When you have used the arrow key to get at and select the
field in which you are interested, you may do one of the
following:
Look at the contents. (Nothing more.)
Delete the entire contents of that field (press the
<Delete> key).
Completely replace the contents of the field with new
information.
Selectively edit/change certain pieces of the information
in that field.
MAKING CHANGES...
To delete the entire contents of the selected field press the
<Delete> key and then answer yes to the "Delete: are you
sure?" question.
To completely replace the contents of the field with new
information simply begin typing the new information. When
complete, press <Enter> for the computer to accept the new
information (and replace the old).
In order to edit/change some of the information (but not all
of it) in a field, first press the <Insert> key to bring up
the information in a special editing window. Then use the
arrow keys, the <Backspace> key, the <Delete> key, and the
regular typewriter keys (A-Z,0-9,!,@,#,...) and change the
information to what you want. Finally, press the <Enter> key
to accept the new changed information.
NOTES...
To look at or change notes on a particular event, move the
highlighted area (cursor) over to the notes column for the
specific event then press <Enter> to open up the notes for
editing. Please refer to the Note Chapter (Chapter 9) for
more information on editing or looking at notes.
FINISHED...
When you have made all of the desired changes or are through
looking at the information and wish to return to the Multi
Area (which you came from), simply press <F10> to return to
the previous area.