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CHAPTER 10 GENERATING PRINTED FORMS
PART A: THE PEDIGREE CHARTS
Generating a pedigree chart from your folder data is easy; we
can describe it completely in just a couple of paragraphs.
After that, we'll discuss the different things you can do to
customize your pedigree charts. Because there are so many
things that you can customize, describing them may take a
little longer.
GENERATING A PEDIGREE CHART: The Basics:
Be sure you have selected a printer and a print device from
the Printer Setup Area. See Chapter 6, "Setting Things Up"
for details.
Enter a folder. Navigate to the person who will be the
youngest (leftmost) person on the pedigree chart that you
want to create. If you're just interested in experimenting
with the pedigree chart's abilities, any person will do.
From the Folder Area, press F3 to get to the Forms Area. You
can also navigate to the person you want after you have
entered the Forms Area.
From the Forms Area, press F3 to generate a four-generation
pedigree chart, or press shift-F3 for a five-generation chart.
At this point if your computer is capable of displaying
graphics, you will see the image of what the form is going to
look like when printed. If your computer does not have
graphics capability, (for a variety of long and terribly
complicated reasons) the GIM Authors have elected to represent
the text of all of the forms as a set of dashes on the screen.
What you will see will give you a general idea of what the
form will look like, and you can use the arrow keys to modify
your view of the form, but to really see it, you'll need to
send the form to the printer. Once again if your computer can
display graphics, the preview show look normal.
To send the pedigree chart to the printer, make sure that
your printer is turned on, and is connected to the same
print device -- usually LPT1 -- that you selected in the
Setup Area. Then press F8. The pedigree chart will then
appear on your printer.
READING THE PEDIGREE CHART
The Pedigree Chart includes the date and place of birth,
marriage, and death for each person. If birth information is
not available, christening information is substituted if
available. If death information is not available, burial
information is substituted if available.
The Pedigree Chart also includes submission information and
the date the chart was printed.
GENERATING A PEDIGREE CHART: A Maintenance Checklist:
When you start to use GIM's pedigree charts as a serious
research tool, you'll want to make sure that the following
things have been taken care of for each of your folders.
You should only need to take care of them once per folder,
and they'll remain taken care of from then on; but you'll
want to examine each of them at least once:
1. Have you entered your submission information? See the
first section of this chapter for details.
2. Have you set your typesetting options -- your margins,
your vertical zoom, your number of copies, your printer
fonts, and so on? See the first section of this chapter
for details.
3. Have you set your numbering, connector, and LDS ordinance
preferences? See the rest of this section for details.
STYLES: Optional Configuration Settings:
The Pedigree Chart can be configured to accommodate a number
of stylistic preferences concerning:
- the use of LDS temple information
- numbering systems to use
- the use of connecting lines between persons
- the use of graphics characters
- the inclusion of LDS ordinance notes
Each of these preferences can be specified by pressing F1
from the Forms Area. The resulting Styles menu includes
preference settings for both the Pedigree Chart and the
Family Group Record. We will discuss the Pedigree Chart
preferences here, and the Family Group Record preferences in
Part B of this chapter.
STYLES: LDS Temples
Each pedigree chart optionally includes information about
LDS temple ordinances. You can turn this off in one of
two ways. You can either set the LDS/Generic setting on
the Styles menu to Generic, or you can set "No LDS
ordinance information" as described below.
The difference between these two methods is that setting
the LDS/Generic setting to Generic turns off LDS temple
information on both the pedigree chart and the family
group record form, regardless of the other LDS-specific
settings on these forms.
STYLES: Numbering Systems
Each pedigree chart contains room for fifteen persons:
a leftmost or "root" person, his or her parents, grand-
parents, and great-grandparents. Each of these fifteen
persons is identified by a number.
Also, if the ancestral lines continue beyond the edge of
the chart, there can be up to eight "continued on chart"
indicators, one for each great-grandparent.
In addition, there are other numbers used on the chart,
to identify the number of this chart, and to tell how to
connect this chart to charts of younger ancestors.
In all, there are 27 numbers on the Pedigree Chart that
help to identify the information on the chart, and the
numbering system preference tells GIM what to use when
these numbers are required.
STANDARD The simplest of these preferences is called "Standard
numbering (1-15)". It means that the numbers 1-15 are
used to identify each of the individuals on the form,
and that empty underscores are used for all others.
Try this, and you'll see what we mean.
This option provides the most uniformity between the
different Pedigree Charts that you produce -- each of
them will produce the same set of numbers, no matter
which ancestors are the subjects of the chart.
This can be advantageous when you are sharing printed
forms with someone who isn't related to your ancestors
in the same way you are, and who therefore wouldn't have
the same GIN numbering system associated with those
ancestors.
On the other hand, it is also a lot less automatic, and
it requires a lot more work on your part, filling in all
those blank spaces.
All other things being equal, we, the GIM Authors,
prefer the other two options.
ENHANCED The next option is called "Enhanced numbering (GIN/
Ahnentafel)", and is the most automatic of the three
preferences, but it is also a shade less flexible than
the "Prompt for numbering" preference described below.
The enhanced numbering system uses the GIN numbers of
individuals to identify them on the chart. It also uses
the GIN number of the leftmost person for the chart
number, and the GIN numbers of the rightmost persons for
the "continued on chart" notices.
This preference works well for your own records, and for
sharing records with close relatives who would use the
same GIN numbers for your ancestors as you do. This is
also a no-hassle preference, because it requires no
interaction from you when assigning numbers. This is
the preference that Blaine uses.
On the other hand, depending on your research needs, you
may want to interact with the Pedigree Chart as it
assigns numbers. If so, you'll want to use the "Prompt
for numbering" preference.
PROMPT The final option takes the enhanced numbering system and
adds the ability to edit the choices for numbers before
they're used. This option starts with the same default
choices used by the enhanced numbering system, allowing
you to review each of them before they're printed.
This isn't a no-hassle option, because it adds an extra
step to the printing process, but it is a low-hassle
option, because this review process is quick and easy.
This option adds extra flexibility for those cases where
you need it. This is the preference that Brian uses.
On the other hand, depending on your research needs,
this extra step may seem useless or annoying. If so,
you'll want to use the enhanced preference.
STYLES: Connecting Lines
As we've said, a pedigree chart has room for fifteen
persons. But what happens when GIM only knows about
some of those persons?
For example, what if (as seems to be the case with a
lot of the research that we've seen) a person's father's
genealogy is completely documented, but that person's
mother's line is a dead end?
Obviously, GIM can provide connecting lines for people
it knows about. But should it provide connecting lines
between people it doesn't know about, on the assumption
that information about them will come along in the
future?
The answer to this question is the reason for providing
a connecting lines style preference.
When you specify graphics characters to use (see the
discussion below), such as "ASCII" or "graphics", you
can specify whether or not these characters should be
used to create "complete" pedigree charts or not.
A "complete" pedigree chart is one that includes
connecting lines for persons that it doesn't know about.
If this doesn't quite make sense, read the next section
too, and then things should start to come together.
STYLES: Graphics Characters
We don't see this much any more, but when IBM and IBM-
compatible computers were first introduced, it was
fairly common to find printers that couldn't draw the
graphics in the IBM's graphics character set.
In those days, printers could always print the standard
ASCII character set -- letters, numbers, punctuation,
also called the "lower 128" ASCII characters, or the
"7-bit" ASCII characters. But older printers often had
difficulty when printing the "upper 128" or "8-bit"
characters that IBM added to the ASCII character set.
By now, IBM and IBM-compatible computers have become so
commonplace that it's difficult to find a printer that
can't print the graphics character set, but we know that
they're lurking out there somewhere, just waiting for us.
So, recognizing that the Pedigree Chart uses these
"upper 128" ASCII characters to draw connecting lines,
we've provided an alternative for those persons with
older printers.
From the Styles menu, you can select "ASCII character
connecting lines" or "graphics character connecting
lines" or "no connecting lines".
ASCII Selecting ASCII character connecting lines will tell the
Pedigree Chart not to use the "upper 128" character set,
but instead to substitute hyphens and vertical bars and
other replacements from the "lower 128".
This option looks less professional and visually less
appealing than the "graphics character connecting lines"
option, but it's better than nothing.
GRAPHICS Selecting graphics character connecting lines will tell
the Pedigree Chart to use the "upper 128" character set.
We recommend this option.
NO LINES And just in case you don't like any of the options, "no
connecting lines" will tell the Pedigree Chart to use no
connecting lines whatsoever, either ASCII or graphics.
Obviously, when you select this option, there's no point
in deciding whether you want a "complete" pedigree chart.
STYLES: Connecting Lines and Graphics Characters
To put it all together, the Styles menu allows you to
pick any of these choices:
ASCII character connecting lines
ASCII character connecting lines, complete
Graphics character connecting lines
Graphics character connecting lines, complete
No connecting lines
The "complete" options refer to drawing connecting lines
for non-existent persons, as discussed above.
The ASCII and graphics character options refer to the
character set to be used, as discussed above.
We recommend the use of either of the graphics character
connecting lines options, depending on your preferences.
STYLES: LDS Ordinance Notes
When LDS ordinances are included, the Pedigree Chart
includes some markings to indicate whether these
ordinances have been completely performed.
We recognize that some researchers may not be interested
in this information, and so the Styles menu allows these
markings to be turned on and off.
If they are turned on, each person's name will be
preceded by some variation of "[BESP]", such as "[Besp]"
or "[bESp]", and so on.
Each of these letters is interpreted as follows:
B is LDS baptism
E is LDS endowment
S is LDS sealing to spouse
P is LDS sealing to parents
For each of these letters, if the letter is in lower
case, that ordinance has not been performed and recorded.
If the letter is in upper case, then the ordinance has
been performed, but recorded incompletely -- such as
recorded with a date, but no place.
If the letter is in upper case and is in boldface type,
then the ordinance has been performed and completely
recorded.
With LDS Ordinances turned on, the form will include
notes that "Completed ordinances are in BOLD", and will
also note that "B = baptism" and so on.
The form will also include the note that "F = Person
appears as parent on FGR" and "C = Children's ordinances
complete". Both of these features are not implemented.
These comments should be ignored at this time.
Blaine recommends that this feature be turned on; Brian
prefers to have it turned off.