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Appendix A: Extended Options for Registered Users
These programs were first made available for public use in March 1985.
Since then the system has been going through an almost continuous
process of revision and extension. The descendant "chart" and rela-
tive report are two significant enhancements that have been made to
the basic set of programs. In addition, a number of other options
have been made part of an "extended" system which is available only to
registered users of the programs (see the introduction to this
manual).
As of July 1990, the extended options include:
1. A program for creating INDEX files which permit processing the
Family History System files in various orders. An index may be
created based upon one or more of: Surname, GivenName, BirthDate
(YMD or MDY), DeathDate (YMD), Latest Marriage Date (MDY) and ID#.
Further, you may request that a husband's surname be substituted
for a wife's when creating the index. An index may also be created
which sequences related individuals in relationship sequence.
2. A program for producing printed indexes for ancestor, descendant,
relative and "batched" family group reports, for sets of ancestor
charts, for ancestor Maps and for descendant charts.
3. A program for searching the files based upon up to 9 selection
rules stated in terms of:
ranges of ID#, Birthdate & Deathdate, Sex,
substrings or soundex of Surname, GivenName, BirthPlace and
DeathPlace, and
existence of Marriage records, children or residence
information.
The program produces detailed listings in indexed or ID# sequence
of selected information including comments, latest residence
information, and common-term relationship (if any).
4. A program for producing Summary reports. The SURNAME Summary
report provides a means for evaluating the completeness of certain
types of information among selected records, grouped by Surname.
Similar ANCESTOR and DESCENDANT Summary reports show statistics,
such as numbers of males & females and ranges of birth and death
dates, for records grouped by generation level. The RELATIVE
Summary report is presented as a 2-dimensional relationship table
with the number of relatives in each relationship category.
5. A RELATIONSHIP CALCULATOR, which accepts two name record ID numbers
and "dynamically" determines the "relationship", if any. It also
shows the nearest common ancestor of two related ID's.
6. An `IMPORT/EXPORT' utility which permits copying information from a
set of family files into an ASCII (standard character) dataset and
transferring the information from that ASCII dataset into another
FHS family file. While this program was designed using a prelim-
inary GEDCOM definition which was not widely used, it does permit
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you to transfer all types of information between FHS family files.
The export/import program provided with the basic set of programs
only supports those fields of data which are common to both FHS
files and the current PAF GEDCOM description.
This program also has an option for creating a "MailMerge" format
address file which may be used with database programs such as the
publicly distributed PC-FILE III to print mailing labels. The file
may also be used with many word-processors for printing form
letters.
Registered users are notified of major updates to the system, though
there is a $15.00 fee for updates after the initial registration. All
updates are cumulative, so it isn't necessary to order each update as
it is announced.
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