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- CHAPTER 12 PRUNING FOLDERS
-
-
- CONCEPTS...
-
- In the first couple of chapters in this documentation we
- described what a GIM folder is all about, and how to use it.
- You may want to review chapter 3 for a discussion about
- folders.
-
- The Prune Area creates a brand new folder which contains an
- excerpt of information (people, families, and stuff) from an
- existing folder.
-
- For example, suppose a cousin of yours would like to receive
- genealogical information from you. You could send him or her
- your complete family tree; however, he or she is only really
- interested in half of your genealogical information. In that
- case, use the Prune Area to split off a branch of your folder
- into a new folder, and then send him or her just that branch
- of the tree.
-
- STARTING OUT...
-
- To get to the Prune Area, you must first open a folder for
- editing, then press F6. This edit folder is the family tree
- that is the source for extracting a portion of genealogical
- information, that is, a branch of your family tree.
-
- The process of pruning, that is, of breaking off a branch,
- involves four steps. First, give a name to the new folder to
- be created. Second, identify a "pivot person", that is, some
- individual who is the person around whom the new folder will
- center. Third, identify the parts of the tree relative to the
- pivot person who should be included in the new folder. And
- finally, either copy or move the branch into the new folder.
- Each of these steps will be explained below.
-
- NAMING THE NEW FOLDER...
-
- From the Prune Area, press F1. GIM will ask you for a name
- for the new folder. Type in a suitable name and press return.
-
- IDENTIFYING A PIVOT PERSON...
-
- By now you should be familiar with navigating around in a
- folder. You may want to review chapter 4 for details.
-
- Navigate to the person who will be the focus of your branch.
- In the next step you will tell GIM to include ancestors and/or
- descendants of this person in the new folder.
-
- If, for example, you are sending genealogical information to
- your cousin, you might want to select your cousin as the pivot
- person. To do so, navigate to that person, and proceed to the
- next step.
-
- INCLUDING ANCESTORS AND DESCENDENTS...
-
- A word about branches. A branch within GIM starts at one
- person -- the pivot person -- and then goes up to include
- all of that persons ancestors and their families, or else it
- may go down to include descendants and their families; or it
- may include both of these, or neither of them.
-
- In addition, you can augment this by including parents,
- siblings, spouses and/or children of the pivot person, and
- this may be either in addition to, or instead of including
- ancestors and descendents.
-
- Press and hold the <Shift> key to see the various things you
- can include in the new folder. These are:
-
- Shift+F1 Ancest-direct-line
- Direct line ancestors of the pivot person
-
- Shift+F2 Ancest-immediate-fam
- Direct line ancestors of the pivot person,
- with immediate family members for each
-
- Shift+F3 Ancest-extend-fam
- Direct line ancestors of the pivot person,
- with extended family information -- about
- three generations worth of close relatives
-
- Control+F1 Descend-direct-line
- Control+F2 Descend-immediate-fam
- Control+F3 Descend-extend-fam
- Same as the above, but for descendants
- instead of ancestors
-
- Control+F5 Self
- This is just the pivot person as a single
- person. The "self" person is selected by
- definition whenever any other modifier is
- chosen, but this "self" modifier lets you
- prune a folder containing just a single
- person, if you should want to do so.
-
- Shift+F4 Parents
- All parents of the pivot person
- Shift+F5 Spouses
- All spouses of the pivot person
- Shift+F6 Siblings
- All siblings of the pivot person
- Shift+F7 Children
- All children of the pivot person
-
- DO IT...
-
- As the final step in the pruning process, you may choose one
- of three flavors of pruning once you have identified the
- branch that you want to prune:
-
- F3, Copy Copy that branch to the new folder
-
- F4, Copy and Delete Copy that branch to the new folder,
- then delete the branch from the
- original folder
-
- F5, Delete Delete that branch from the original
- folder without saving that data to
- anywhere else
-
- Under most circumstances you will usually only use the copy
- function (F3). On rare occasion you might wish to copy and
- delete a branch or simply delete a branch. Be very careful;
- once information is deleted it cannot be recovered!