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CHAPTER 10 GENERATING PRINTED FORMS
PART D: THE ANCESTRAL AND DESCENDENCY TABLES
Ancestral and descendancy tables are charts of ancestors and
descendants of a given person, organized into one large table.
This is useful for showing all the ancestors or all the
descendants or any person at a glance.
The ancestral table can be thought of as a kind of "extended
pedigree chart". The descendancy table can be useful for
identifying cousins and other extended family members.
GENERATING A TABLE: 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
target person for this table -- that is, the person whose
ancestors you want printed on the ancestral table, or the
person whose descendants you want printed on the descendancy
table.
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 F4 to generate an ancestral table,
or shift-F4 to generate a descendancy table.
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 table 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 table will then appear on your printer.
READING THE TABLES
The ancestral and descendency tables are organized in outline
form. If you try one out and look at it, you'll see what we
mean; it's really easier to see than it is for us to explain
it here.
Each line on the ancestral table starts with a level number --
all persons on the same level are indented the same amount, to
help make the charts easier to read -- followed by the
person's name and his or her GIN number, if he or she has one.
Each line on the descendency table looks the same, except that
each line is followed by similar information about spouses, if
any. As usual, try this, and you'll see what we mean.
GENERATING A TABLE: A Maintenance Checklist:
Unlike other GIM forms, there really is nothing you need to
check for to generate one of these tables. They are so
straightforward that there's really nothing that needs to be
customized or otherwise maintained. You might want to
doublecheck your typesetting options -- see the first part of
this chapter for details -- but that's about it.