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- CHAPTER 8 LINKING INDIVIDUALS INTO A FAMILY
-
-
- INTRODUCTION...
-
- If you are computerizing your genealogical data you will
- probably use the Person Area to create new individuals within
- the currently opened folder. (Refer to Chapter 7 about
- creating and editing individuals.) After these individuals
- have been entered into the computer, you will want to use the
- Family Area to join them together as a family unit.
-
- DESCRIPTION...
-
- The Family Area lets you join a bunch of individuals into a
- family relationship. You may create a new family, delete an
- existing family, or change or add members of a family. The
- family area also includes information associated with a couple
- (i.e. husband and wife)--such as marriage date and place.
-
- The pieces of information which you may add, change or delete
- are:
-
- Husband (link to person)
- Wife (link to person)
- Marriage Date
- Marriage Place
- Marriage Notes (Source and Research)
- LDS Sealing Date
- LDS Sealing Place
- LDS Sealing Notes (Source and Research)
- Progenitor number (which child is in direct line)
- Child #1 (link to person)
- .
- . (the number of children is variable)
- .
- Child #32 (link to person)
-
- LAYOUT...
-
- The layout of the Family Area contains three areas:
-
- A Couple (or single parent)
- Marriage (and Sealing) information
- Children (with an indicator of progenitor)
-
- You can move around the Family Area by repeatedly pressing the
- arrow keys. For example, if you are at the marriage date, you
- may move to the husband by pressing the up arrow twice.
-
- 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.
-
- MAKING CHANGES...
-
- 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.