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CHAPTER 8 LINKING INDIVIDUALS INTO A FAMILY
INTRODUCTION...
If you are computerizing your genealogical data you will
probably use the Person Area to create new individuals within
the currently opened folder. (Refer to Chapter 7 about
creating and editing individuals.) After these individuals
have been entered into the computer, you will want to use the
Family Area to join them together as a family unit.
DESCRIPTION...
The Family Area lets you join a bunch of individuals into a
family relationship. You may create a new family, delete an
existing family, or change or add members of a family. The
family area also includes information associated with a couple
(i.e. husband and wife)--such as marriage date and place.
The pieces of information which you may add, change or delete
are:
Husband (link to person)
Wife (link to person)
Marriage Date
Marriage Place
Marriage Notes (Source and Research)
LDS Sealing Date
LDS Sealing Place
LDS Sealing Notes (Source and Research)
Progenitor number (which child is in direct line)
Child #1 (link to person)
.
. (the number of children is variable)
.
Child #32 (link to person)
LAYOUT...
The layout of the Family Area contains three areas:
A Couple (or single parent)
Marriage (and Sealing) information
Children (with an indicator of progenitor)
You can move around the Family Area by repeatedly pressing the
arrow keys. For example, if you are at the marriage date, you
may move to the husband by pressing the up arrow twice.
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.