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- EZ-TREE
-
- EZ-Tree is a genealogy program to track and report on family trees.
- The program records information in variable length records and fields
- with the following maximum field sizes:
-
- First Name . . . . . . . . . . . 16 characters
- Middle Name . . . . . . . . . . 16 characters
- Last Name . . . . . . . . . . . 16 characters
- Maiden Name . . . . . . . . . . 16 characters
-
- Sex (M or F) . . . . . . . . . . 1 character
- Birth Date & Information . . . . 32 characters
- Death Date & Information . . . . 32 characters
- Personal Comments . . . . . . . 144 characters
-
- Marriage Date & Information . . 32 characters
- Divorce Date & Information . . . 32 characters
- Marriage & Divorce Notes . . . . 144 characters
-
- You can keep track of up to 16 marriages per person and up to 32
- children per marriage. There is no logical limit to the number of
- generations you can have for each family tree. There are provisions
- currently in the program to handle 90 different family trees with 200
- people and marriages per family tree. Both of these last two numbers
- will be increased in the future.
-
-
- INSTALLATION AND SETUP
-
- There is only one file (EZT.COM) you need to run EZ-Tree. To start
- the program simply key in EZT and press the ENTER key. The program
- will create other files that it uses to store information in. They
- are:
- CONFIG.EZT used to store program configuration info.
- FAMILY.EZT used to store an index to the family trees.
- TREE1.EZT - TREE90.EZT stores all the family tree data.
-
-
- MAIN MENU
-
- To choose an entry from the main menu use the up and down arrow keys
- to highlight the one you want to use, then press the ENTER key; or
- just press the first letter of the entry. The first entry you may
- want to choose is the Modify configuration entry. This lets you
- choose a different disk drive and directory to store the Family and
- Tree files if you need to do that. This would actually allow you to
- use more than 90 family trees by putting 90 families in each
- directory you create for that purpose. Also with this entry you can
- change your screen colors and the screen save time out feature that
- will blank out the screen after a certain amount of time.
-
- The next entry you will choose is either Create a new family tree or
- Retrieve an existing one. To create a new one, choose the Create
- option, then key in a description of the family tree your creating.
-
- You can use up to 60 characters. Next you would choose Work on the
- current family tree to start entering the detailed information. If
- you already had some family trees created and chose the Retrieve a
- family tree entry, you would be presented with a list of available
- family trees. To choose one use the up or down arrow keys to
- highlight the one you want and press the ENTER key. Then you would
- choose Work on current family tree.
-
- The remaining main menu entries allow you to save the family tree on
- disk any time while your working on it or to delete the current
- family tree from the index and from your disk.
-
-
- WORKING ON A FAMILY TREE
-
- You start by keying in information about the first person you want to
- add to the family tree. Pressing ENTER takes you to the next field
- until all fields are used. Then the person's name is displayed in a
- box in the upper left hand corner of the screen and a function key
- menu is displayed below it. Press the F1 (help) key to see the
- details of what each key on the keyboard will do. Press any key to
- return. You can now add parents to the person you keyed in or add a
- spouse. The top two boxes are always used to display a husband and
- wife if there is a marriage. Children are added and displayed below
- the couple. The ESCAPE key can be used at any time to cancel or back
- out of any procedure.
-
-
- REPORTS
-
- Presently there are three reports that can be produced by using the
- F9 (list) key. More will be added later. You can get detailed
- information about the person currently highlighted by the cursor, a
- report on all people in the current family tree, and a list of all
- descendents of the person currently highlighted by the cursor. The
- detailed report and the report on all people have reference numbers
- listed in front of each person. This lets you locate information on
- a person by that reference number because the report is produced in
- reference number sequence. The descendents report puts an asterisk
- in front of people who are related by marriage, but are not actually
- in the blood line. A listing can be directed to your printer or to
- the screen and it can be cancelled any time by pressing the ESCAPE
- key.
-
-
- MORE INFORMATION, SUGGESTIONS, & PROBLEMS
-
- Write to:
- Jim Hass
- P.O. Box 447
- Richfield, OH
- 44286-0447
-