On Disk Monthly 69/odm69.zip/FAMHELP.TXT

Text File | 1992-06-04 | 12KB | 340 lines

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^C^IBrowsing Family Data

When you are in browse mode, you can move between the person
data records in the current file by pressing PgUp and PgDn.
Home goes to the first and End goes to the last.  F6 chooses
the display order: numeric (by ID #) or alphabetic (by name).

Several keys are shown below the person's data, letting you jump
directly to the person's parents, children, spouse, etc.  These
screen items also serve as mouse buttons.

The main menus, at the top of the screen, can be reached by
clicking the mouse on them, or by pressing ALT and the first
letter of the desired menu.  Select a menu item by clicking on
it (or releasing the mouse button while on it), or by using the
arrow keys and Enter, or by pressing its highlighted letter.

For expert users, many menu items have "quick" function key
equivalents, shown on the menus.

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^C^INames

Names can be entered in whatever format you wish, either
"Firstname Lastname" or "Lastname, Firstname".  Be consistent,
and be aware that your records will be sorted in alphabetical
order in the form you enter them, so that if you type the first
name first, that's what they'll be sorted by.

Note that imported GEDCOM files have the first name first, so
that's probably the way you should type them if you plan on
bringing in GEDCOM data and want your own data to be consistent
with it.  GEDCOM exports from Family Tree will look for a comma
in "Last, First" names and rearrange them to suit the standard.

When you are asked for a name anywhere but in the "Name" field of
a new record, you can type the ID number (preceded by a # sign)
if you know it, or type the full name, or press F8 for a "pick
list" of all the names in the file.

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^C^IDates

Enter dates in the form MM/DD/YYYY.  Leading zeros can be
omitted, and years in the 20th century can be shortened to two
digits, e.g., 5/2/92 = May 2, 1992.

If parts of the date are unknown, you can use question marks,
like 12/??/1950 for an unknown date in December, 1950.

Precede a date with "C" (circa) to show approximate status, or
with a less-than (<) or greater-than (>) sign to indicate that
the real date is before or after the given date respectively.
Type "U" to indicate a date is completely unknown.

Dates from Oct. 15, 1582 are in the Gregorian calendar; prior
dates are in the Julian calendar.

ALT-C brings up a perpetual calendar; from it, you can click the
mouse on a particular day to enter that day in the current field.

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^C^IPlaces

Places are entered as free-form text fields.

It is normal genealogical practice to enter them in the form:

   City, County, State

for U.S. places, and

   City, Province or subdivision, Country

for foreign places.  Parts of a place are given from smallest to
largest, with commas separating them.

The "Top Ten Places" feature in Enhanced Family Tree is no
longer supported, so you'll have to type in all places by hand.

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^C^IEditing a Record

You can move around between all the fields in a record with the
arrow keys, Tab, and Shift-Tab.  Type in new values for the
field you are on as appropriate.  Enter goes on to the next
field.  F10 saves the record when you are finished editing.

ESC aborts, undoing the changes you made to this record.

While on the "Mother" or "Father" fields, F8 brings up a menu of
names to pick.  While on the "Marriages", "Children", and
"Biography" fields, F8 lets you edit the lists of marriages and
children, and biography, respectively, of the current person.

More help is available on entry of names, dates, and places; see
it by pressing F1 when the input cursor is on such a field.

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^C^IBiography

The "Biography" is a full screen of free-form text which you may
enter for each person in your family data file.

Type in the desired text, and press F10 when you are finished.

ESC aborts without saving the changes you have made.

The biography will be stored in an ASCII-format text file in a
subdirectory named as the name of the current family file with
the extension ".F3B".  The individual biography file is named
the ID number of the person with the extension ".BIO".

Use this feature to enter whatever information you wish that
does not fit in the given fields of Family Tree.  However, be
aware that each biography file will take 2K of disk space on
most hard disks.  Thus, if you have biographies on 1000
different people, that would take 2 megabytes.

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^C^IName Pick List

You are viewing a list of names in the current data file.

The order will be alphabetical or by ID number depending on
which sorting order you have chosen (F6 toggles between these
orders).

Use the arrows, PgUp, and PgDn to move around, or click the
mouse on the "More" boxes.

To select a name, press ENTER while the desired name is
highlighted, or double-click your mouse on the desired name.

ESC exits the pick list without selecting a name.

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^C^IMarriage, Child, and Sibling Lists

If you got here from the Browse screen, use the arrows to move
to the name of the person you want to jump to, and press ENTER,
or double-click on a person with the mouse.  ESC gets out of
this list without jumping to a new record.

In the case of marriages, when you jump to a spouse, the
appropriate place of marriage and reason for end of marriage
will be shown first in a pop-up box where this information is
applicable and known.

If you got here from the Edit screen, you can add or remove
marriages or children by pressing the Ins or Del key
respectively, and in the case of marriages, you can also edit
the information on the marriage by pressing ENTER when the one
you want is highlighted.

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^C^IStarting a Family File

Since no Family Tree file is presently open, you'll have to
open one now by picking the Open item on the File menu or
pressing F4, or create a new file by picking the New item or
pressing Shift-F6, or else use the Conversion feature on the
File menu to convert and open a file from an earlier version of
Family tree, or the GEDCOM import feature to load data in GEDCOM
format.

The main menus, at the top of the screen, can be reached by
clicking the mouse on them, or by pressing ALT and the first
letter of the desired menu.  Select a menu item by clicking on
it (or releasing the mouse button while on it), or by using the
arrow keys and Enter, or by pressing its highlighted letter.

For expert users, many menu items have "quick" function key
equivalents, shown on the menus.

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^C^I

^C^1^V

^CProgrammed by
^CDaniel Tobias
^Cand Richard Wong

^CCopyright 1988-92 by Softdisk, Inc.

^CThe GEDCOM data format follows specifications authored
^Cby the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

^C^I

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^C^IStarting a Family File

Since there are not presently any data records in this file, the
thing to do now is press Ins to insert one, or else import data
using the Merge or Gedcom features in the File menu.

The main menus, at the top of the screen, can be reached by
clicking the mouse on them, or by pressing ALT and the first
letter of the desired menu.  Select a menu item by clicking on
it (or releasing the mouse button while on it), or by using the
arrow keys and Enter, or by pressing its highlighted letter.

For expert users, many menu items have "quick" function key
equivalents, shown on the menus.

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^C^IPrinting Family Trees

You can print trees of the ancestors or descendants of a
particular person.

For each of these reports, you are asked for the number of lines
per page and columns per line supported by your printer, and
whether your printer supports IBM characters.

Reports will look better if you support IBM characters.  Reports
will show more information if you support more length and width.

Some printers (laser printers especially) support only 60 lines
per page.  Most printers support 66 lines per page.

If your printer supports a "compressed" mode with more than 80
characters per line, put your printer in that mode manually if
possible, and enter the appropriate number to get a wider family
tree printout with more generations.

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^C^IFamily Listing

This report includes all the data on persons in your data file,
optionally including biography files.

The "Search Text" line is used to type the name or other text
you are searching for.

Only those whose names begin with the given string are included,
unless you say Yes to the "Full Search" option, in which case
the string is searched for anywhere within the name, place, and
comment fields.

Enter a blank line for the "Search Text" to print all records in
your file.

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^C^IChoose File to Open, Load, Merge, or Rebuild

You are being asked to pick a file to open, to import, or to
rebuild, depending on which command you have selected.  Use the
arrow keys to move to the desired file, and press ENTER to
select it, or double-click the mouse on the desired file.  If
there are more files than fit on the screen, select the >>MORE<<
entry to get to the next group.

To change directories or switch to a different disk drive, move
to the "Path" field (with the arrow keys or by clicking on it
with the mouse) and type in a different drive and path
specification in the standard MS-DOS format, such as:

^1   A:

^1   C:\FAMILY\

^1   D:\FILES\FAMILY\SMITH

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^C^IName a File to Create

You are being asked to name a file to create.  Type the file
name without an extension.  You may precede it with a drive or
path to open a file on a different disk.

For your reference, the files of the appropriate type in the
current directory are listed on the screen.  (It is possible
there are more of them than will fit; in that case, some will be
left out due to lack of space.)

Note that if you type a name that matches the name of a file
already on the disk, you will be creating a new file that will
overwrite the previously existing file of the given name.  You
will be warned first in this case.

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^C^IFamily History Report

The Family History Report, a unique feature of Family Tree,
shows the events in your family arranged chronologically.

Select a range of dates, or leave the dates blank to include all
events.  Answer yes or no about whether to include each of
several categories of events:  births, deaths, marriages, and
the ending of marriages.

For large data files, this report may take a while to set up.
Also, it uses a temporary data file to store the chronologically
sorted event list.  This file is deleted once the report is
printed, but you must have sufficient disk space to create it,
and must not be running Family Tree from a write protected disk.
It is strongly recommended that you run this report only from a
hard disk.

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^C^IReason for End of Marriage

Use the space bar to toggle this field between its possible
values, to indicate the reason why the marriage ended:

   None       =   Not applicable (the marriage didn't end), or
                  reason unknown

   Divorce    =   Marriage ended in divorce

   Annulment  =   Marriage ended in annulment

   Death      =   Marriage ended due to death of a spouse

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^C^ICalendar

You are in a pop-up calendar page, for your reference in
entering dates.

The following keys are active:

    Left and Right Arrows:  Increase or decrease year
    Up and Down Arrows:  Increase or decrease month
    PgUp and PgDn:  Step back or forth one decade
    Home and End:  Step back or forth one century
    Esc or Enter:  Exit the calendar

If you are in a date entry field, and you exit the calendar with
the Enter key, this will cause the currently-displayed month to
be entered into the field.  If you click the mouse on a
particular day, this day will be entered.  If you exit with Esc,
the date field will be unchanged.