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PARENTS Ver. 3.0
by NickleWare
INTRODUCTION
PARENTS is an application that was designed to help make collecting
and organizing your genealogy easier. With the help of PARENTS, you will
be able to more easily gather, store, and view information about all of
your ancestors as well as your children and your children's children.
PARENTS allows you to enter and store vital information such as
names, birth, marriage, death dates and places and more. All of this
information can then be easily organized and related together to form your
family tree. You will also be able to print the detailed information about
any one of your ancestors as well as print an immediate tree or entire
ancestral tree.
REGISTRATION
PARENTS is not public domain, nor is it free software. You are
granted a limited license to use this product on a trial basis. You are
also granted a license to copy PARENTS, along with the documentation, for
the trial use by other users. PARENTS has not been intentionally crippled
or limited in its functionality in any way. If you wish to continue using
the product, you must send $25 to:
NickleWare
P.O. Box 393
Orem, UT. 84059 USA
If you would like an original disk or an update to the latest release of the
software, please add $5 for shipping and handling.
We encourage you to copy PARENTS and share it with anyone who might
be interested in tracking down their roots and learning where they came from.
GETTING STARTED
REQUIREMENTS -
Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher
IBM compatible PC 286/386
Before proceeding, make sure that you have Microsoft Windows
correctly installed. Next create a directory called PARENTS and copy the
PARENTS software (PARENTS.EXE) into this directory. PARENTS is now ready
to be started. Simply start PARENTS from the RUN... menu selection of the
Windows Program Manager or add it to a Program Manager group by following
the directions in the Windows 3.1 manual for creating a group item. PARENTS
will then create all of the data files it needs to run, and place them on
the same drive and path where the software was installed.
When PARENTS is started for the first time, the following entry will
be placed in the WIN.INI file which is probably in the same directory where
windows is installed.
[PARENTS]
DBPath=<drive>:<path>\
This tells PARENTS where to find the data files. The key word
DBPath is set equal to the <drive> and full <path> including the trailing
backslash, where the PARENTS data files will reside. For example:
[PARENTS]
DBPath=C:\Parents\
You can change where PARENTS looks for the data files by simple
altering the DBPath. Then move the data files from the directory where they
were created to the new directory you specified in the DBPath.
INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET
The main window for data collection is the INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET.
All of the genealogical information about any individual can be entered into
this worksheet. It contains fields for the individual's name, birth date
and place, christening date and place, the date and place where the
individual was married, where and when the individual died and when and
where the individual was buried. In addition to these fields is a misc.
notes field that can be used to store any additional information, and a
place to indicate the sex of the individual. The information that is
entered into the date and place fields does not have to be in any specific
format.
MENU SELECTIONS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET.
NEW - This selection, from the FILE pull down menu, will display a
blank INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET. After all of the information has been entered
into the worksheet, click on the SAVE pushbutton. This will add a new
record to the data base storing all of the information that was entered.
OPEN - This selection, from the FILE pull down menu, will display a
list of all of the individuals that have been entered into the database. An
individual can be selected from this list by highlighting it and clicking on
the SELECT pushbutton or by double clicking on the selection. All of the
information that was previously stored in the database about this individual
will be displayed in the worksheet. This information can be updated or
added to, and then saved.
PRINT - This selection will print the worksheet information for the
currently selected individual. It will also optionally print a family group
sheet report.
PUSHBUTTON ACTIONS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET.
SAVE - This action will save the information that has been entered
into the INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET. If SAVE is clicked after entering a NEW
individual, the information will be added to the database. If SAVE is
clicked after updating the information for an existing individual, the
updates will be saved in the database.
DELETE - An existing individual's information can be deleted from
the database if that individual is not currently being used in the FAMILY
TREE. After clicking the DELETE pushbutton, a message prompt will appear
requesting a confirmation of the action. If the individual exists in the
FAMILY TREE, a message prompt will appear indicating that the individual
cannot be deleted.
CLOSE - This action will close the INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET. If the
data on the worksheet was changed and has not been saved, you will be warned
that they are about to discard changed data.
NEXT - This action will display the data for the next individual
record in the database.
PREVIOUS - This action will display the data for the previous
individual record in the database.
LIST - This action will return you to the Individual List.
SEARCH - This action will perform a search based on the Surname and
Name fields.
IMMEDIATE FAMILY TREE
The IMMEDIATE FAMILY TREE displays and allows you to update a
selected individual's family tree. The FAMILY TREE's center box has a
thicker border than the other boxes in the tree. Any individual that is
placed in this box will cause the tree to be centered around him or her. In
other words, all of that individual's immediate family will be displayed in
the other boxes of the tree.
An individual can be placed in the FAMILY TREE's center box in one
of two ways. The first way is by dragging and dropping from the INDIVIDUAL
LIST. This is done by highlighting an individual with the mouse, and while
holding the mouse button down, moving the mouse pointer over the center box.
When the mouse button is released, the selected individual will appear in
the center box and the rest of the tree will automatically be filled in.
The second way is by highlighting an individual in the INDIVIDUAL LIST, then
pulling down the RELATIONS pull down menu and selecting INDIVIDUAL. Again,
the selected individual will appear in the center box and the rest of the
tree will be filled in.
The IMMEDIATE FAMILY TREE can also be used to create a family tree.
To do this, first make a selection from the INDIVIDUAL LIST and place that
selection in the center box. Then in the same manner as described above,
place each member of the immediate family in the appropriate box. As each
selection is placed in the tree, that selection is related to the individual
in the center box according to the position in which it is placed. To the
left of the center box is the Children List. Each child of an individual in
the center box, should be placed in the Children List. Directly below the
center box is the Spouse List. The individual's current spouse and each
previous spouse (if any) should be placed in this list. At the top right of
the center b