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- CHAPTER 7 ADDING/MODIFYING A PERSON'S INFORMATION
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-
- INTRODUCTION...
-
- For someone who is typing in their genealogy by hand from
- scratch, the Person Area will be the area most frequently
- used. The Person Area is used for creating a person and/or
- editing information about a person. To get to this area from
- the outside in:
-
- Run GIM
- Select the desired folder in the Folder Area
- Open the folder (and go into the Multi Area)
- Select the desired person as the target person
- Edit that person (press <F1> or <Enter>)
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-
- DESCRIPTION...
-
- The Person Area is reminiscent of a specialized form to be
- filled out, but on the computer. There are spaces and fields
- which can be filled in, or the information which is already
- there can be changed. Information which is typically
- associated with a person is:
-
- Name (given and surname)
- Gender
- Birth (date, place, and notes)
- Christening (date, place, and notes)
- Death (date, place, and notes)
- Burial (date, place, and notes)
- Baptism (date, place, and notes)
- Endowment (date, place, and notes)
- Sealing to Parents (date, place, and notes)
- General notes
- Ancestral File number
- Reference number
-
- A person in GIM is a very specialized thing and is a record or
- collection of information about a real person, but is strictly
- limited to that individual. For example, a specific birthdate
- is uniquely associated with only one person (excluding any
- coincidence). A marriage date, on the other hand, can pertain
- to two people, and that marriage date in GIM is located in a
- family record (a "GIM family record"). So if the information
- which you are looking for is not in the Person Area, go try
- looking in the Family Area.
-
- LAYOUT...
-
- The appearance of the Person Area is like a form on the screen
- with various empty or filled in areas/fields. You can move
- around between the different fields by pressing the arrow
- keys. There is more information in the Person Area than can
- fit on one screen (when the diplay is in the 25 line mode).
- To look at more fields, press either the up or down arrow many
- times.
-
- When you have used the arrow key to get at and select the
- field in which you are interested, you may do one of the
- following:
-
- Look at the contents. (Nothing more.)
-
- Delete the entire contents of that field (press the
- <Delete> key).
-
- Completely replace the contents of the field with new
- information.
-
- Selectively edit/change certain pieces of the information
- in that field.
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- MAKING CHANGES...
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- To delete the entire contents of the selected field press the
- <Delete> key and then answer yes to the "Delete: are you
- sure?" question.
-
- To completely replace the contents of the field with new
- information simply begin typing the new information. When
- complete, press <Enter> for the computer to accept the new
- information (and replace the old).
-
- In order to edit/change some of the information (but not all
- of it) in a field, first press the <Insert> key to bring up
- the information in a special editing window. Then use the
- arrow keys, the <Backspace> key, the <Delete> key, and the
- regular typewriter keys (A-Z,0-9,!,@,#,...) and change the
- information to what you want. Finally, press the <Enter> key
- to accept the new changed information.
-
- NOTES...
-
- To look at or change notes on a particular event, move the
- highlighted area (cursor) over to the notes column for the
- specific event then press <Enter> to open up the notes for
- editing. Please refer to the Note Chapter (Chapter 9) for
- more information on editing or looking at notes.
-
- FINISHED...
-
- When you have made all of the desired changes or are through
- looking at the information and wish to return to the Multi
- Area (which you came from), simply press <F10> to return to
- the previous area.