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- CHAPTER 10 GENERATING PRINTED FORMS
-
-
- PART B: THE FAMILY RECORD
-
- GIM provides a familial (family oriented) form that is generic
- in appearance and application. The Family Record form is a
- simple block style presentation.
-
- This form is very flexible. By using the "Forms Styles" you
- can customize the appearance, verbosity, and the members of
- an immediate or extended family that are included or excluded.
-
- This form is targeted for genealogists that desire an
- alternative to the LDS Family Group Record, particularly for
- those who do not like the LDS Church's standard form that
- includes spaces for LDS ordinance events. The Family Record
- will show LDS ordinances if that style is selected, but if the
- style is not selected no space is wasted.
-
- GENERATING A FAMILY RECORD: The Basics:
-
- Be sure you have selected a printer and a print device from
- the Printer Setup Area. See chapter 6, "Setting Things Up"
- for details.
-
- Enter a folder. Navigate to the person who will be one of
- the parents on the Family Record that you want to create. If
- you're just interested in experimenting with the Family
- Record's abilities, any person will do.
-
- From the Folder Area, press F3 to get to the Forms Area. You
- can also navigate to the person you want after you have
- entered the Forms Area.
-
- From the Forms Area, press F2 to generate a Family Record.
-
- At this point if your computer is capable of displaying
- graphics, you will see the image of what the form is going to
- look like when printed. If your computer does not have
- graphics capability, (for a variety of long and terribly
- complicated reasons) the GIM Authors have elected to represent
- the text of all of the forms as a set of dashes on the screen.
- What you will see will give you a general idea of what the
- form will look like, and you can use the arrow keys to modify
- your view of the form, but to really see it, you'll need to
- send the form to the printer. Once again if your computer can
- display graphics, the preview show look normal.
-
- To send the Family Record to the printer, make sure that your
- printer is turned on, and is connected to the same print
- device -- usually LPT1 -- that you selected in the Setup Area.
- Then press F8. The FGR will then appear on your printer.
-
- READING THE FAMILY RECORD
-
- The person you selected when you pressed F2 to generate the
- Family Record will occupy the first entry on the form, whether
- that person is male or female. (This intentionally breaks from
- the traditional method of creating forms, where the husband is
- usually listed first.) The information listed for this person
- should be self-explanatory.
-
- This person's spouse(s) might listed next, if they've been
- specified from the Styles menu, as discussed below;
- again, information for these persons should be
- self-explanatory.
-
- Thereafter, similar information might be printed for each of
- the couple's children in turn, followed finally by lists of
- other marriages, if any, and source and research notes, if
- they've been specified from the Styles menu, as discussed
- below.
-
- Other family members might be printed such as spouse's
- spouses, parents, etc., if they've been specified from the
- Styles menu, as discussed below.
-
- The Family Record (at this time) does not includes submission
- information and the date the form was printed.
-
- GENERATING A FAMILY RECORD: A Maintenance Checklist:
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- When you start to use GIM's Family Record forms as serious
- research tools, you'll want to make sure that the following
- things have been taken care of for each of your folders.
-
- You should only need to take care of them once per folder,
- and they'll remain taken care of from then on; but you'll
- want to examine each of them at least once:
-
- 1. Have you entered your submission information? See the
- first section of this chapter for details.
-
- 2. Have you set your typesetting options -- your margins,
- your vertical zoom, your number of copies, your printer
- fonts, and so on? See the first section of this chapter
- for details.
-
- 3. Have you set your preferences for standard or enhanced
- forms, for which kinds of notes to include, and for which
- members of the family to include? See the rest of this
- section for details.
-
- STYLES: Optional Configuration Settings:
-
- The Family Record can be configured to include different
- stylistic preferences. All of these preferences can be
- specified by pressing Shift-F1 from the Forms Area. The
- resulting Styles menu includes preference settings for most
- forms. The Pedigree Chart preferences were discussed in Part
- A of this chapter, and the Family Group Record preferences
- will be discussed in Part C. The remainder of this Part
- discusses perferences for the Family Record.
-
- LDS Most forms can be configured to include or exclude information
- about LDS temple ordinances. To exclude this information, set
- the LDS/Generic setting on the Styles menu to Generic.
-
- Note that setting the LDS/Generic setting to Generic turns off
- LDS temple information on both the pedigree charts and
- familial forms, regardless of the other LDS-specific settings
- on these forms.
-
- INCLUDE/ The next set of these preferences concerns whether you want to
- EXCLUDE include or exclude certain members of the family, and if
- include whether to show as a full multi-line block or as a
- single line with names only.
-
- The selection for include/exclude are on the second display
- page of the Forms Styles Area. Be sure to press PageUp or
- PageDown to change display pages.
-
- The choices are:
-
- Include Other Spouses (block) -- multi-line block
- Include Other Spouses (line) -- single line with name
- exclude other spouses
-
- Parents, Children, Child's Spouses [Include line/block
- or exclude]
-
- Further additions to styles may appear in the future; if there
- are any additions that you would like to see, please contact
- the GIM Authors.
-
- EVENTS You may choose whether or not to include empty events, in
- other words events that have no date, place or notes
- information. For a concise form select "Show only events with
- information." For research purposes select "Show all events
- (including empty events)."
-
- NOTES The next to the last of these preferences determines which
- kind(s) of notes you would like to append to the Family
- Record. There are currently three choices:
-
- - No notes
- - Annotate source notes only
- - Annotate source and research notes
-
- For example, if you select "Source notes only", all of the
- source notes for each person on the form, and for the family,
- will be appended to the Family Record, but research notes will
- be left off the form. Naturally, "Source and research notes"
- will include all notes on the form.
-
- (There is currently no option to include research notes only,
- and there is currently no option about appending other
- marriage notes; other marriage notes are appended
- regardless.)
-
- NOTE The last preference selects whether for each individual note
- TITLES a title "Source Notes:" or "Research Notes:" is added or not.
- For printers that support bold face type and for a more
- consise form "no individual notes title."
-
- WARNING ABOUT THE FAMILY RECORD:
-
- Note that the Family Record makes very liberal use of your
- printer's abilities -- more than any of GIM's other functions.
- The Family Record makes intensive use of things like
- underlining, bolding, compressed print, graphics characters,
- and vertical and horizontal tabs.
-
- When you select your printer from the printer setup menu, it
- is important to be very careful that your printer can support
- all of these features, and that the control codes for these
- features are specified correctly for your printer in the
- GIMPRN.GIM printer resource file.
-
- If they are not, please let us know. When all of these
- printer functions are set up correctly, the Family Record
- looks really incredibly amazing; if it doesn't, then
- something's probably wrong with the way we implemented the
- printer resource file for your printer. Please bring this to
- our attention, and we'll get it fixed right away.
-