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- CHAPTER 10 GENERATING PRINTED FORMS
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-
- PART E: THE ANCESTRAL AND DESCENDENCY TABLES
-
- Ancestral and descendency tables are charts of ancestors and
- descendants of a given person, organized into one large table.
- This is useful for showing all the ancestors or all the
- descendants or any person at a glance.
-
- The ancestral table can be thought of as a kind of "extended
- pedigree chart". The descendency table can be useful for
- identifying cousins and other extended family members.
-
- GENERATING A TABLE: The Basics:
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- 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 the
- target person for this table -- that is, the person whose
- ancestors you want printed on the ancestral table, or the
- person whose descendants you want printed on the descendency
- table.
-
- 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 F5 to generate an ancestral table,
- or shift-F5 to generate a descendency table.
-
- 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 table 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 table will then appear on your printer.
-
- READING THE TABLES
-
- The ancestral and descendency tables are organized in outline
- form. If you try one out and look at it, you'll see what we
- mean; it's really easier to see than it is for us to explain
- it here.
-
- Each line on the ancestral table starts with a level number --
- all persons on the same level are indented the same amount, to
- help make the charts easier to read -- followed by the
- person's name. In parentheses following the person's name is
- or his her GIN number, if he or she has one, and information
- about his or her birth (or christening) and death (or burial).
-
- Each line on the descendency table looks the same, except that
- each line is followed by similar information about spouses, if
- any. Again, try this, and you'll see what we mean.
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- GENERATING A TABLE: A Maintenance Checklist:
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- These tables are fairly straightforward, and so there's really
- not much to check for before creating one of them, although
- you will want to doublecheck your typesetting options if you
- have not already done so -- see the first part of this chapter
- for details.
-
- However, you may find that you want to control the information
- about each person which is printed on the line after his or
- her name. The rest of this section discusses style options to
- control that behavior.
-
- STYLES: Optional Configuration Settings:
-
- The Ancestral and Descendency Tables can be configured to
- change the amount of information which is displayed for each
- person on the table. In particular, you can control the
- display to include or exclude each person's:
-
- - GIN number
- - birth date
- - birth place
- - death date
- - death place
-
- If all of this information is included, a person's name and
- information looks like this:
-
- Peter Sauter (GIN:14, b. 1894, Germany, d. 1964, Florida)
-
- This is already an abbreviated list: he was actually born 18
- May 1894, for example, in Lachen, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, but
- there's only so much information which will fit on a single
- line, so the details have been removed.
-
- However, you may find that even this is more information than
- you want to display, so you can turn off each of the items in
- this list.
-
- For example, if you exclude the death date and death place,
- you will be left with:
-
- Peter Sauter (GIN:14, b. 1894, Germany)
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- STYLE NOTES:
-
- - If birth information is not available, these tables
- substitute christening information if available.
- Likewise, if death information is not available, these
- tables substitute burial information. When you use
- these "styles" option settings to turn off "birth" you
- are really turning off both birth and christening; and
- likewise for death and burial.
-
- - If you exclude both birth place and death place -- in
- other words, if you are only interested in dates, then
- the tables will switch to a more compact display
- format. In other words, instead of displaying
-
- Peter Sauter (b. 1894, d. 1964)
-
- it will display
-
- Peter Sauter (1894-1964)
-
- - If you exclude all information about this persons, the
- parentheses will not be displayed. In other words, you
- will see
-
- Peter Sauter
-
- rather than
-
- Peter Sauter ()