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- CHAPTER 10 GENERATING PRINTED FORMS
-
-
- PART C: THE LDS FAMILY GROUP RECORD
-
- GIM provides two LDS family group record forms. This is one,
- and the other is the LDS Preprinted Family Group Record.
-
- This one prints LDS family group records (FGRs) on blank paper,
- and the other one prints them on the preprinted blank forms
- that are available from the Family History Department of the
- LDS Church, and from their branch Family History Centers.
-
- (So why is this one called a "LDS Family Group Record" if they
- are both family group records? Oh, it's a long story; don't
- worry about it.)
-
- This section of this chapter will discuss how to generate a
- family group record from your folder data.
-
- GENERATING A FAMILY GROUP 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 FGR that you want to create. If you're
- just interested in experimenting with the FGR'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 F3 to generate an FGR.
-
- 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 FGR 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 GROUP RECORD
-
- The person you selected when you pressed F5 to generate the
- FGR will occupy the first entry on the form, whether that
- person is male or female. (This breaks from the traditional
- method of creating FGRs, where the husband is usually listed
- first.) The information listed for this person should be
- self-explanatory.
-
- This person's spouse is listed next; again, information for
- this person should be self-explanatory.
-
- Thereafter, similar information is 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.
-
- The FGR also includes submission information and the date the
- form was printed.
-
- GENERATING A FAMILY GROUP RECORD: A Maintenance Checklist:
-
- When you start to use GIM's FGRs 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, and for which kinds of notes to include? See the
- rest of this section for details.
-
- STYLES: Optional Configuration Settings:
-
- The FGR 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 of the various GIM
- forms. The Family Group Record preferences are discussed
- here, and the other preferences are discussed in other parts
- of this chapter.
-
- LDS Each family group record form 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 the
- family group record form, regardless of the other LDS-specific
- settings on these forms.
-
- GINS The next of these preferences concerns whether you want the
- standard or enhanced FGR. The enhanced form includes all of
- the information on the standard form; in addition, it also
- includes each persons GIN number.
-
- Further additions to the enhanced form may appear in the
- future; if there are any additions that you would like to
- see, please contact the GIM Authors.
-
- NOTES The last of these preferences determines which kind(s) of
- notes you would like to append to the FGR. There are
- currently three choices:
-
- - No notes
- - Annotate source notes only
- - Annotate source and research notes
-
- For example, if you select "Annotate source notes only", all
- of the source notes for each person on the form, and for the
- family, will be appended to the FGR, but research notes will
- be left off the form. Naturally, "Annotate 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.)
-
- WARNING ABOUT THE FAMILY GROUP RECORD:
-
- Note that the FGR makes very liberal use of your printer's
- abilities -- more than any of GIM's other functions. The FGR
- 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 Group
- 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.