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1. A horizontal display of one or more event detail for Alan ROE P0O1 group fields or link fields that allows plese A aaa of these fields to be pee _ rg ang aes edited Multiple occurrences will be shown in the first column with a description e g occupation 1 When recording alternative values for the same attribute the preferred or most likely value should occur first This does not apply to different dated events like several occupations but would be used if there were two sources for births with the same or different dates For multiple link fields you can re arrange the order of the links in the record by dragging the entries in the Detail grid into the wanted order and confirming the new arrangement Census links for S006 1871 centgs rel RG 10 9999 p99 675 High Street Worthing PIES F Replace Text This extension of the Find Text function see chapter 8 section E allows you to replace the text found by a second string provided by you As for Find Text you can either search the records in an existing list index filtered list ancestor plan or descendants plan or you can search all records of all types Caution this function changes your records in a way that cannot be undone Make certain that you have an up to date back up of your database 68 Chapter 7 Editing Records before using the Replace Text function Otherwise if it has unex pected results it may be difficult to repair the damage done
2. P001 bapt 170ct1835 14May 1910 amp Susan SHARP P002 c 1840 27May 1875 S 200004 00006 00001 S001pr C 300004 00004 00001 C001 census 1871 alan ROE P001 head age 35 draper e 400000 00000 00000 diagnostics shows a list of warnings discovered in a session or of errors for Pedigree Software use during development You may be asked to look at this if there are problems Click on this list box to hide it Right click inside it to save it to a file which can then be printed using Windows notepad or your word proces sor Any initial picture script syntax errors will be listed here A diagnostic log of the numbers of records for each type of record is shown after closing the data base debug toggle on or off the logging of diagnostics other than errors to the diag nostics list A tick will show when logging is on When it is on picture scripts will be interspersed with the script names Diagnostic log example The log is created on opening and closing a database also in List places GED COM error reports or whenever an error in the program is encountered option ally after debug is turned on The log is cleared when debug is turned on Here is a normal example of a log with no problems PediTree v3 038 DB991212 04 03 00 17 55 59 d pedigree ken712 ped last saved by 2 6J at 2198 updates 1961 Person 565 Marriage 185 Source 165 Census Another example that includes the results of a Check Database operation i
3. PHS Click on the tab for the Report you wish to view The display can be toe resized or scrolled to see the rest of the soft Report Right click to pop up a menu with the following choices Back Esc to return to the list or family display Print all print Reports for all records of the list you will be warned of the total number Print page 1 for the current record page You may be warned to select Set up if z the width is greater than the current J ta en printer page paper width See chapter 9 mm a 120 mat section B for the printing procedure o lc fz e oT Tithe ttle Layout change Report layout defini O PEN EIEE ac tions only left right and top margins m js C o can be altered see illustration E o E e one 1 10 26 5s 1 bath place f Wa 78 3 bath notes rll 3 2 1 chaistering date 7 120 Chapter 10 Tables and Reports Save image save this page as an image in JPG form View to select the page under the cursor to View it and perhaps print all pages Authorship rectangle as described previously If the Report as defined in Pedigree for DOS has a bottom area unlimited by a background line that would go onto subsequent pages PediTree will continue printing it for several pages not limited by the height of that area nor the page height It is not yet possible to preview these pages Report Design At present Report design must be done us
4. The middle list Record Fields author displays those fields in the current e record type that are not in the Panel METE nanona Fields list To add a field to the panel select it in ees pea the middle list then click on the but ton Similarly to remove a field from the panel select it in the right hand list and click the lt button You must have at least one field in an Edit panel To change the order of the fields in the panel drag them into the required position in the right hand list using the knobs in left margin When satisfied click the OK button to return to the Edit display with the modi fied panel selected To abandon your changes click the Cancel button To rename a panel click the Rename Panel button You can then edit the name of the selected panel Panel names must be between one and eleven characters You can only modify one panel before clicking OK Selecting another panel first will lose the changes you have made you will be warned first Some fields in the Person and Marriage record types are not normally included in an Edit panel as they should only be changed in the Family display However you may be advised to include them in order to repair a damaged database These fields are parents marriages husband wife children Person record type Marriage record type 66 Chapter 7 Editing Records To add a new Edit panel click the Add Panel button You can then insert its
5. b normal birth will only produce output if there is information in the birth group However the script if birth present then b end will not produce any thing even if birth information is present because there was no variable data to be printed from within the brackets The script if birth present then b birth date end would be acceptable but the if birth present and end are redundant If statement this has the following syntax if lt condition gt then lt statementi gt end or if lt condition gt then lt statement gt else lt statement2 gt end 32 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions The lt statement gt section of picture script following the then will only be dis played if the conditional expression lt condition gt is true Otherwise the lt statement2 gt section following the else will be displayed if present Conditional expressions are described below Separator when a field occurs more than once in a record each occurrence is displayed separated from the next by a set of characters by default a new line To change this use the following syntax separator for example separator or separator to use a newline as the separator The separator string of characters must not be longer than 5 characters but PediTree does not check this The list of components above are concatenated with spaces between them accord ing to the following rules 1
6. contain instead of contains and too many end statements Although they are accepted Round brackets cannot be used to denote associa tion of AND or OR conditions in condition statements PediTree has added some features to the picture script usage without affecting Pedigree for DOS where they should have no visible effect on results childNumber for Person and marriageNumber for Marriage can be used in any screen display report or chart For example insert at the beginning of Person partners picture script childnumber and the children will be numbered Marriage number will be shown for the last person found normally one of the spouses in the particular Marriage being shown Other differences from Pedigree square brackets must contain a variable There is one feature that Pedigree accepts but I don t intend to accept in PediTree The use of square brackets is intended to ensure that literally fixed text is only shown if there is some variable field present in the same brackets like b normal birth PediTree will not produce any output unless there is some field to print if birth present then b end will not produce anything even if birth is present because there was no variable data to be printed from within the brackets if birth present then b birth date end would be OK but the if birth present and end are redundant Even if there was anoth
7. end if treeMarriage treeRef contains A then Color red width 2 end These assume that you have made an Ancestors Plan for yourself or your children as Plan A If not use List gt Choose to erase any existing plan A before creating the new Ancestors Plan A To produce the line style changes there are three commands for the tree proces sor that must be in double quotes The first one of a type will override later ones of the same type Line followed by dot too small to have much effect on printing dash dot too small for printing dash good generally but may not be noticed in the short LineUp dash dot dot too small for printing width followed by one digit to increase the normal line width 2 or more will increase the number that you may have specified in the font menu item Color followed by one of the values shown below Note that the English spelling of colour will also work and most colours will work with only the first letter except for Gray and Blue An invalid letter will not change the colour from the default colour selected by your background font Any of these commands can have values as fields e g color refnum so that you can colour your lines of descent with a suitable refnum starting with a letter representing a colour Aqua Navy Gray Silver Blue Olive Green Teal Black Purple Lime White Fuchsia Red Maroon Yellow E Age Picture Scripts PediTree can calculate the age of an individual from
8. statements Other errors can be corrected and tested in PediTree but remember to save them using the main menu option File gt Save lists and defns immediately or when clos ing the database Note if you have a script error amend it and test it your changes are saved only when they are all successful for that picture script That means that you have to repeat earlier corrections at present Other types Abrief Anomal kdetail jase GED ABIRT ACHR ADEAT ABUF K Picture Script Name i ntes hetman ig a I then note Append se date ERS in place notes en rename a Changes or Additions if date present then aged descenderrerer oe citelsource To change or add picture scripts choose Options gt Picture scripts from the main menu You can only change picture script names for records or groups but not reports of any type Select the tab for the picture script that you want to rename or any script if you want to add append a new script name to the end of the script name OtherT ypes TE 7 Help Fields 47 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions tabs New script names are never inserted except before the record EDIT or PLAN scripts because EDIT and PLAN scripts must stay together Right click anywhere in the tab line for a pop up menu for Append or Rename as shown once a tab has been selected Right clicking on one of these existing script names will make an edit box open on the line of tabs for you to t
9. will be true for all the above cases except for David Jones where neither simple expression is true Date Comparisons For comparison with fields of type date you can use full dates 3 Apr 1947 or year only 1947 but you cannot use month and year only Apr 1947 Comparisons based on whole years are calculated on the start of the year so birth date gt 1832 will include all of 1832 but not exactly 1832 without a day and month Conversely birth date 1832 means only dates entered as 1832 and does not include any other dates in months in 1832 PediTree treats bef 1832 as before 1832 after 1832 and circa 1832 as after 1832 Alternatively PediTree allows specific dates to be entered in the YYYYMMDD form inside quotes When each birth date or any other date is examined it is put into this textual format for comparison The before after and about circa are added to the date as one of the characters lt gt where is added to dates without a prefix These cause dates to be ordered into the following sequence for sorting indexing and comparisons 18320000 lt bef 1832 38 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions 18320000 1832 18320000 gt aft 1832 18320000 c 1832 18320100 lt bef Jan 1832 18320101 1 Jan 1832 So a comparison that says birth date gt 1832 is evaluated as birth date gt 18320000 and will exclude 1832 to include it say birth date gt 1832 PediTree will also allow the use of the
10. E List Menu Functions Choose List Dialogue Shows a list of the currently available lists so that you can select one for dis ar poco play or other operations 5i a 3 koped on husband sumname wile forenames 4 keyed on date dype tile 4 keyed on sunane twenanes source date 4 kpped on sowce RIN retnun C G To choose a list click on the line con taining the type of record and the order that you want A new List display will be created and the list will be filled See chapter 6 for information on the List display If necessary widen the columns by dragging the column divi sion line at the top Ouuu E The list has these headings but scroll left if you cannot see them List number of this list Type record type Method of making this list such as Anctree an Ancestors Plan DescTree a Descendants Plan Fill in order by RIN Index sorted as specified Size number of items in this list Key s and filter s Keys that this list has been indexed or sorted on and fil ter scripts that were used to select these records from all the records of that type A right click on a line in this dialogue will bring up a context menu as shown in the illustration Two are shown one for View mode one for Edit mode but only one is available at a time This has the following choices Help on Zd provides on line help for the selected list 84 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Print this summary prin
11. PEDITREE A Family History Program User s Manual Version 2 3 by Murray Kennedy and Colin Liebenrood PEDIGREE SOFTWARE The Granary Ryelands Wyre Piddle PERSHORE WR10 2JG England Telephone 01386 556649 Copyright This User s Manual is copyright 2004 2007 2011 Pedigree Software Some of the material it contains has appeared previously in other publications by Pedigree Software and the Pedigree Users Group and is used with the permission of the authors Written by Murray Kennedy and Colin Liebenrood Edited and typeset by Colin Liebenrood Acknowledgements Windows and DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Version This Manual is compatible with PediTree version 3 333 Version 2 3 15 March 2011 Contents Copyright Acknowledgements Version Chapter 1 Introduction A About this Manual B Reading this Manual C Getting Help Contacting Pedigree Software Pedigree Users Group Chapter 2 Family History Databases A Introduction Types of Record Records and RINs Fields Field Types Group Fields Storage B Database Designs C Changing Database Designs Definitions List Dialogue Changing Record type Names Changing Group type Names Changing Field Names and Tags Changing Choice type Words Chapter 3 Using the Databases A User Databases B Using the Elton55 Design Person Record Marriage Record Source Record Using Source Records Multiple Source Citations from Group Fields Cens
12. 12 relationship calculator 83 88 Report design 121 report designs summary 100 Report draw 120 Residence group 14 28 RINs 12 show current 108 shown or not 103 RTF save Table as 117 save changes 61 short cut keys 134 Soundex 137 in picture script 32 Source record 14 for letters 25 using 24 Sources multiple citation 25 swiping 53 Table authorship rectangle 116 create new 116 design 118 draw 58 115 grid 116 119 layout changes 118 save as image or text 117 tag See GEDCOM tag text display 62 edit 63 find 84 91 repeat 62 replace 68 toolbar 9 button 54 71 72 82 84 100 106 109 date 104 Tree layout dialogue 125 tall 122 warning message 125 wide 122 truncation character 103 tutorials 8 types of record 11 typography 9 variables See picture script variables View mode 82 Web output 95 charts 96 dialogue 97 person pages 96 viewing 99
13. Advanced Right click choose Properties alter the command line target to append the path of the database you want to open N U C PediTree Registration File The file Pedigree ENC is your Registration file supplied when you order PediTree or Pedigree for DOS To use PediTree to edit or print from databases of more than 150 records you must have been registered for PediTree with a w suffix to your serial number or serial number gt 3200 and a date that is consistent with your version of PediTree If you think that you are entitled to use PediTree but your opening name and address does not contain a serial number like that then from your latest Pedigree Software disk drag this file into your PediTree folder or use the DOS command e g XCOPY a pedigree enc c pedigree 135 Chapter 13 Appendices D Files used by PediTree The following files in the main working folder usually c pedigree are essential for PediTree to operate PediTree EXE executable program Ped32 DLL picture script support library DB32 DLL database support library Pedigree ENC PediTree Registration file PediTree CHM on line help dictionary PediTree css Style file for Web pages generated by the Web Output facility PedTree INI stores PediTree option settings that are not particular to one database such as fonts colours hints and status bar settings Chart width and lines on off Tree width height justification and ancestor
14. Click the Fields button as shown above in order to show a Field list in this type of record or group that can be picked and inserted into the script after the point where the cursor is If the field is a group or a record then another list of the fields in that data type will be shown until you have selected one of the elemen tary fields The whole hierarchical compound value expression is made up of the names separated by full stop symbols The top item of link or group selection will be the name itself for use on its own It will use the default picture script which is the first picture script for that record or group If you click on the top item when it shows picture scripts then a list of the script names is shown for you to pick from This will be inserted after the cursor posi tion with the group or record name in brackets The choice can be restarted by clicking the Field button again The helpful hint will keep a note of the com pound field that you have built so far Test your script with the Test button and it will be changed for this session of PediTree Use the main menu File gt save lists and defns to update your database permanently If the debug option is checked ticked in the Windows menu then the Diagnos tics log will be filled for the application developer s use 46 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions Make Windows gt debug ticked and then test a script All new line characters will have the
15. PO92 21Jun1982 B 2 Prince Harry P151 15Sep1984 isie Anne PO89 1950 m 1 of 2 14N i B 2 m 2 of 2 12Decl992 to Tim LAU 3 Prince Andrew P152 19Feb1960 eae text 4 Edward PO90 pai 2 Margaret P0686 1930 09Feb2002 m expand chart 1 David ARMSTRONG JONES P13 2 Lady Sarah ARMSTRONG JONES Captain Mark PHILLIPS P1239 1948 and had 2 children 11955 no children DMay1996 to Sarah FERGUSON P153 150ct1959 no chi ARMSTRONG JONES P132 and had 2 children MIN MO51 husband Captain Mark PHILLIPS P129 b 1948 m 1 of 2 14Nov1973 div 1992 wife Anne P089 b 1950 and had 2 children Peter PHILLIPS P130 Zara PHILLIPS P131 changed 24Jul2004 21 23 A single click on a descendant will display a Marriage Detail Box or a Person Detail Box if they have no spouse and a single click on an ancestor will show a Person Detail Box In Descendant charts the Dchart brief normal or detailed picture script is used to show one line against the outline diagram symbol When you click on a line the Detail Box will show either the Marriage or Person detailBox script output depending on whether they have a Marriage record The husband is shown first not necessarily the descendant as shown in the chart Only one line of text per descendant or ancestor is shown on the screen with some short vertical symbols representing newline characters The full printout shows all detail wrapped to t
16. after and circa Note that if a key is a number such as a RIN then you must enter zeros to make it up to 5 digits 56 Chapter 6 List Display Edit Id if an entry is highlighted then an Edit display for that record will appear Double clicking an entry will usually have the same effect Grid Zd if an entry is highlighted then an Grid display horizontal for that record will appear Filtered search index or filled lists only allows you to select records from the current list by using a Filter or conditional expression This option brings up the Script Edit display for you to enter the script to be used See section C below Volumes plans only will display a grid of the tree layout as shown here ES aes PS 2 Click on any of the cells to return to sreza n the list At first this grid shows the 93 0 31 94 H 71 0 21 72 layout using RINs in the form aea 17a a descendant spouse marriage 10 1 2 7740 27 e g 122 123 37 You may need to set d sere widen columns by dragging the divi sions in the header row to see the whole of each entry The overall depth and width in strips of the tree can be clearly seen 6240 19 66 After a Tall or Wide Tree layout has been displayed the volume grid will show the number of lines of text in each box with the maximum number shown at the top of each strip DB Royal0307 detailBox Print will print the contents of the Detail Box but not limi
17. as RIN select brings up an edit box in which you can enter a known RIN and press Enter to position the Family display to that person or mar riage Press Esc to return to the existing display Edit Id brings up an Edit display vertical for the Anne PO69 PHILLIPS LAURENCE current record On an empty position Zd will be none in Edit mode on a person position this will Matk P89 x E S RIN select Mark P89 become new person thus allowing the addition of Edit P89 RIN select a new record reed Print Brd as p tbeth II is detailBox Print Grid Id brings up a Grid display horizontal for Sees draw Bepon ye Detach wife the current record On an empty position Jd will be ptain Mark PHILLIPS F _jnsert mariage as for Edit Id above delete P89 77 Aina Both the Edit display and the Grid display can be LIERDE ADIRA sar mining used to change the record when in Edit mode detailBox Print will print the contents of the Detail Box but not limited to its size on this screen It uses the current print set up draw Report the Family display will be replaced by a Report This display will have tabs across the top for the Reports available for the type of record that you had selected Click on the Back tab to return to the Family display See chapter 10 for Report printing Find in index locates the current record in an index and brings up a List display of that index with the record
18. in a lower resolution the individual Hints shown displays may be too large Cascade or Colours Tile below can help in this circum List paging 20 Male stance Number of windows 3 Female Edit headings Tile arrange all open displays in a tiled layout This choice toggles between vertical and horizontal tiling if it can each time that you click on it Sometimes you will be able to see several small displays without overlap See the previous section for the always tiled option setting Close windows will close all displays such as Family and Lists Use List gt Choose to open new List displays then Edit gt Family to open a Family display or the corresponding Toolbar buttons Arrange Icons when some or all displays are reduced to icons see next choice this will arrange these neatly Minimise All if the screen becomes too cluttered this converts all open display windows to icons You can then select just the displays that you want Picklist select select a particular folder from which to load a new PLAC LST place pick list The following three options toggle their settings on and off with on indicated by a tick against them in this menu Footer shown show the footer status bar You may want to switch it off to make space Toolbar shown show the Toolbar with its buttons Hints shown show the little yellow hint box that follows the mouse If these hints get in the way then you can switch them
19. occupation gt fields correspond to the highlighted Delete Text entry 3 Choose the Action mode from the list The available choices depend Cancel Help upon the context 4 Where relevant choose from the Target Field drop down list Again the con tents of this list is context related If you are editing an Action for a record type top line of the relevant tab then this list will be labelled Record types 5 For Copy text or Append Value enter the text or prefix in the Text box 6 The Add and Delete buttons affect the List of Actions respectively adding another Action at the end of the list or deleting the chosen Action 7 Click OK or press Enter to apply your edited Actions If you change the Actions for a group head tag such as OCCU in this example or a record head then the Actions for all subordinate tags will be changed to Ignore So it is best to start at the top of the record type tab when editing Actions The example shown here is of editing one of two group head tags see the exam ple on page 113 In this situation it is important that both group head tags are set to start the same group as the record type display doesn t show which subor dinate tags follow which group head After editing Actions on all tabs to remove Unknowns or otherwise you may wish to save your changes before proceeding This may be done from the Sum mary tab by clicking on the Save Actions button A standard File Save dial
20. But it can be used to make a Place name pick list Place name Pick list Right click in the Places list for a popup menu with the above item This will sort the places list if not already sorted and compare each entry up to the tab divider of the place name from the rest such as birth place of Matthew BRUCE P1566 with the next item in the list If there are at least two place entries with the same spelling then that place will be written to a file called PLAC LST in a location that you specify such as C pedigree This location is remembered by PediTree for use when editing place fields in all sessions and databases See chapter 7 section B Place Fields If you want to select a different place list for some databases then make the extra PLAC LST files in different folders and use the main menu Windows gt PickList select It will ask Do you want to find new file for PLAC LST Answer Yes to find an existing file that you have created elsewhere or No to use the latest one created in this session It remains selected until you choose another one Merging Place name Lists You can use PVsort to merge several lists from different databases and remove duplicates In this example D removes duplicates Pvsort fileA fileB filec PLAC LST D where fileA fileB fileC may be filenames in different folders To expand this example further Make a place list from each of the databases and give each a different name like place
21. Date Check when only the bigamous marriage and the child out of order remain Let s look at the latter first so click on it and again press F8 In the resulting Family display child 3 Margaret is marked with a question mark which is PediTree s way of indicating that she is in the wrong position Looking at the birth dates of the children you can see that she should come before Henry VIII Fixing this is easy press and hold the left mouse button on the 3 and drag it up so that the dark line that appears is above the 2 then release the mouse button Click on Yes to save this reposition and the job is done the question mark has gone Lastly the bigamous marriage needs investigation Again clicking on the report line and then pressing F8 takes us to the Family display for Henry VIII with his six marriages Clicking in turn on tabs 4 and 5 shows that both marriages are dated 1540 and that to Anne of Cleves has no divorce date nor has she died So PediTree understands that both marriages are concurrent hence the message To fix this we need to sharpen up the dates and add that of Anne s divorce Click tab 4 for Anne of Cleves then right click on the marriage and choose Edit M61 Change the marriage date to 6 Jan 1539 40 and add the divorce date of Jul 1540 Why 1539 40 are we not sure No this is an old style date as at this time in England the new year started on March 25 So Anne would have known this as January 1539 To
22. Elton55 Yes Yes Yes Fam55 Yes Yes Yes All PediTree databases must have Person and Marriage records Elton55 is a development from Census where the main difference is in the picture scripts Fam55 is supplied with the utility program GedUtils and is specially designed to receive information from converted GEDCOM version 5 5 files See chapter 12 for more about this It has additional Groups and the Repostry record type for information about document repositories record offices and so on The misspelt name Repostry is to comply with the eight letter limit for record types Chapter 2 Family History Databases C Changing Database Designs Information about changing picture scripts is in chapter 4 Changes to record types and groups are carried out using the Options Definitions dialogue obtained from the main menu Options gt Definitions For an existing database that contains information in any of its record types you can only add new fields or change the GEDCOM tags A newly created database however has no such restriction you can delete or re arrange fields and change their type as well as adding new fields Because PediTree is a Family History Mandatory Fields database program there are a few ini icti Record remaining restrictions You must not Person Field Type Ta alter the mandatory fields in the Person yP 9 Marri t in any way Parents Marriage link FAMC ioe EAE yw A marriages Marriage link FAMS e first five fields
23. First a standard Print dialogue appears This allows you to select a printer and set its properties if you haven t done so earlier For example you can change the page orientation but this gt your nare will usually cause the preview to be OE 1 Prone house Your town redrawn ne postcode Your house 1961 31Aug1997 Your town Your postcode P129 1948 The dialogue shows the number of pages to be printed If you wish you can select one or more pages here Clicking Cancel will quit the printing operation On clicking OK the PediTree Printing eee prt eee 2 Dialogue will appear showing title ae Se and heading with an option to print im Properties odd even or all pages This enables Status Ready you to achieve double sided printing kc toe has as if your printer doesn t have this facil Comment ity Print range Copies E ce Number of When printing Trees you can show C Poges fom t wB ty the row and page number in the top c GH alel BE E Dea Chapter 9 Charts and Printing right corner by marking X in the check o PealTree Roya Person Sinple tatie ma SA 54 Person lst using forenames box for Page Nos T Ji ron If the title or heading is not to your lik ing then you can select an old one saved in PediTree by clicking on the right hand down arrow and selecting one of those shown You can also edit the title or heading If you delete the title or heading com sins plet
24. GRO M or GRO D date Q3 1911 refnum 6b 102 individuals link to person place Newcastle u Lyme type census date 3 Apr 1871 refnum RG10 9999 p99 place 675 High Street Worthing county SSX A further use for Source records is for letters that you want to send once and keep for as long as necessary filed by person or date The fields are used as follows type letter date when sent title for your own identification refnum text text of the letter individuals link to addressee place The actual letter is produced by the letter Report which you will need to alter to contain your own name In this the salutation Dear Mr Smith is worked out by the Person picture script named salutation You will see that it uses the Person title if you have filled it in with the surname If you want to address the person more informally then enter Person nickname and the salutation will be e g Dear Joe The picture script tries to be clever with the title if it is absent from the Person record Males will be Mr females will be Mrs or Miss depending on whether you have recorded a marriage Multiple Source Citations from Group Fields PediTree databases cannot have repeated fields inside a group like an event This means that only one Source record can be linked to each event The following notes give some advice on circumventing this constraint Obviously if the information is about birth or christening b
25. Next and TEXTO list Replace buttons may not be used If 18 03 gt postfix in James V STEWART of Scotground P107 j 18 03 gt stfix in J es IV STEWART of Scotqround P108 you have used the character you will i toa gt sumame in Frederick GROUNDGRAVE of Hesse Cassel P140 18 03 gt surname in William GROUNDGRAVE of Hesse Cassel P141 be asked to confirm that you mean this fja TEXT items from tist 0 as a newline character not literally You will be asked to confirm that you lames IY STEWART of Scotground P1068 also at A4 6 m to Margaret P109 and had one child have a back up copy then all text 1 James V STEWART of Scotground P107 1542 m 4 1513 in Flodden fields will be searched and any changed 16Aug2004 18 03 matched text will be replaced A new Replace list display as here will appear with the results of the replace ment 69 Chapter 7 Editing Records Note this example shows a potential disaster the replace has operated on part of a word which might not be what was intended However the replacement text has at least matched the case of the original 8 You can click on entries in this list display to see the record in the Detail Box below There may be several entries for a single record if the text was found in several different fields in that record 9 Right click on a list entry to see what additional functions are available One possibility will be Save list text GED
26. The data column indicates whether this tag has no value N has a value V or is a link L to another record type The Count col umn shows the number of times this tag occurs in the file The Action column depicts the way in which this tag will be treated during import see Actions below for more information Resd complete in 0 03 seconds 5 After selecting a particular line by a click with the mouse clicking the View data button will display the information present in the records Up to 50 entries are shown in a scrollable list with the option to see more if required Text entries are truncated if too long to display This view may help you to decide what steps to take if the Action shown is UNKNOWN 6 Clicking the Edit Action button brings up a dialogue that allows you to change the Action s for this particular tag as will be described Alternatively you may wish to use some pre defined Actions which can be introduced by the Load Actions button on the Summary tab 7 Once all unknown Actions have been changed then the Add button on the Summary tab should be enabled If not you may need to change to the Edit update mode which you can do without leaving the Import display 130 Chapter 12 GEDCOM 8 Clicking the Add button will start the import of the file If there already is information in your database you will be asked to confirm that you have a back up copy for safety Note a failure during the import process
27. an error Images can be shown on Wide Trees using the Brief picture script if the box size is deep enough say 20 lines or 6 lines free after the text is shown They cannot be shown on Tall Trees 123 Chapter 11 Trees The title and heading will appear only on page 1 of row 1 although all of row 1 pages will have both top space and heading space allocated whilst all other rows will have only top spaces set in the Layout dialogue A right click brings up a menu with the following choices Diagram Back Esc return to the List display List 3 DescT ree B for 4 generations from George VI PO62 NORMAL ADETAILED Print all for all pages of the Tree Print row n page m for the current page e g Print row 1 page 1 This will print all pages or the selected i akoe page of the Tree but you will probably prefer to see a print preview first See chapter 9 section B for information about the printing procedure Layout brings up the Layout dialogue to change the Tree layout See below Save image save the Layout diagram as an image in JPG format View row n page m see a print preview of this page Authorship rectangle disabled Orientate brings up a Print Setup dialogue so that you can change the paper ori entation or other settings Choosing the View option brings up a print preview of the chosen page of the Tree A right click here produces a similar pop up menu with a few dif
28. and Pedigree G Messages Information messages Warning messages Error messages Run time error codes H PediTree Shortcomings Printed Reports Comma Separated Value files J Differences from Pedigree for DOS Lines of Descent RINs prefixed EDIT Panels and PLAN Picture Script Names Editing Mode Sorting a List Differences from Pedigree Trees Picture Script Features Foreign Characters K Advantages over Pedigree for DOS Printing Picture Scripts Record and File Linking Saving Information Multiple Windows and Lists Print Previews Trees Editing Definition changes Index Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Introduction PediTree is a database management program designed specifically for genealo gists and family historians The facilities it provides can be grouped into three main categories Data Entry feeding information into PediTree from the keyboard or from another file for instance a GEDCOM file Data Analysis finding out new facts about family relationships by giving PediTree the task of analysing your research by searching and sorting Display printing tables charts and trees that show the results of your research A database is a collection of related information The contents of a card index is a database a family tree is also a database because it contains pieces of infor mation that are related in this case by family links A family tree database may be extended to include photographs and other related informat
29. append 61 names 12 14 repeated 13 62 field type choice 13 date 13 group 13 link 13 longtext 13 text 13 files default gia 133 PediTree 136 find current record in index 84 text 91 fonts 101 GEDCOM 126 automatic back up 81 105 export list 128 export whole database 128 import 129 import action 130 import action unknown 130 import dates 131 import display 129 sample version 4 file 126 tag 12 use last folder 105 version 5 5 127 GedUtils utility 133 Getting Started Guide 8 help 10 hot link 45 53 character 103 images in Report 121 in wide Trees 123 index automatic repair 87 check ordering 77 create 85 new 83 out of date 83 standard ones 86 insert field 61 Islands deleting 95 relationship 92 using 92 Kennedy Murray 10 keyboard editing with 67 keyboard short cuts 134 link field 13 edit 65 place 62 list choose 83 84 dates 83 88 erase 83 places 83 89 List display 54 Ancestors plan 54 dates 55 Descendants plan 54 draw Report 57 draw Table 58 draw Tree 57 filled list 54 filter 57 58 find 56 index 54 places 54 save as text or GEDCOM 56 sort 57 text Find or Replace 55 mark person 51 55 Marriage record 12 using 22 messages error 142 information 140 warning 141 move child 52 matriage 52 MS DOS prompt 72 Object group 14 28 Occupation group 14 28 options always edit 105 century 105 date formats 104 dat
30. are common to other packages such as Personal Ancestral File Some of the sug gestions set out below are designed to ensure easy transfer of information both between PediTree users and to other packages Person Record There should be one Person record for each individual in the database If you find a duplicate then you may want to ensure that one of these has all the links and data fields before removing the other The fields in this Person record are parents a Marriage record link that is maintained from the PediTree Family dis play and not in an Edit display This is the other half of the Marriage children links It is important to remember that parents is a link to a Marriage record not to two people marriages Marriage record links that are maintained from the PediTree Family display and not in an Edit display This is the other half of the Marriage husband or Marriage wife link There is another marriages field in the Source record sex either M or F If unknown one of seven children leave blank forenames enter in full with conventional initial capital letters e g Colin John not COLIN If initials only are known enter in capitals without full stops e g C J If unknown leave blank in this case picture script name will 20 Chapter 3 Using the Databases add the RIN to the surname to distinguish them Any prefixes or nicknames go elsewhere their own fields surname enter in full with c
31. as a number with a leading zero 01 31 ddd Displays the day as an abbreviation Sun Sat using the strings given by the ShortDayNames global variable 104 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions The potential problem with showing days of the week is knowing which calendar is appropriate PediTree assumes the Gregorian calendar valid after 14 Sep 1752 in the UK and colonies Other countries changed over at various dates from 1582 to 1946 The Russian team was 12 days late for the 1908 Olympics because they still used the Julian calendar Before 1752 the year started on March 25 mmm Displays the month as an abbreviation Jan Dec using the strings given by the ShortMonthNames global variable yyyy Displays the year as a four digit number 0000 9999 Century This setting determines how two digit years are interpreted on entry For exam ple if this setting is 1900 then a year 53 will be interpreted as 1953 List Paging Lists are read in and converted using the List picture script in units that can be changed here The default is 100 lines Hints Persist You can change the time in seconds that the yellow hints persist by changing the default of 3 Tiled Number of Windows Limit the maximum number of display windows open at any one time The default is three windows plus one for each record type If the Tiled box is checked then the open display windows will always be tiled to fit into the dis play area rather than s
32. as are anniversary dates 9 Apr Use the prefixes c about bef before and aft after as needed Potentially ambiguous dates before the calendar change may be entered as dual dates e g Feb 1741 2 which comes after Dec 1741 but before New Year s Day on 25 Mar 1742 PediTree also allows e g Q1 1938 for dates obtained from the GRO Indexes Q1 Jan Mar Q4 Oct Dec But how to indicate that e g the person has died but you have no idea when The death date bef 1994 might be safe for Uncle Fred b 1870 place enter the place where the event occurred but here is a minefield How do you describe it There should be enough information to enable someone unfa miliar with your family or the locality to identify the place correctly For compat ibility with other packages such as Personal Ancestral File it should be written like an address on one line with up to three commas separating the elements e g St Mary Walcot Bath SOM The place names used should be contempo rary with the event described even though this makes it more difficult to check with modern maps Abbreviations should be avoided but standard codes like the B S county Chapman codes can be used In the above example SOM Somer set correct for 1811 now again correct in between came AVN Avon Overseas locations will need the country as the last element As before no comments or notes in the field notes for supplementary information about the date
33. at least two types of record Person records and Mar riage records By convention PediTree documentation always capitalises record types These hold information about individuals and their families respectively There are usually more types of record In Elton55 for example there are also Source records holding information about the documents that have provided the information about individuals and their families and Census records for details from 19th 20th century census returns It is possible to define and use up to seven types of record in one database In fact Pedigree Software s databases can be altered in many ways to suit your particular needs if the designs provided prove to be inadequate Chapter 2 Family History Databases Records and RINs Each Person record holds information about one individual each Marriage record holds information about a family of two parents their children and details of their marriage if any The Marriage record has no information about the individuals involved simply Jinks to the relevant Person records These links use the Record Identity Numbers RINs of the records involved a RIN is allocated by PediTree to each record when it is created As Baiwon Recon well as being used to link records the Field Type Tag RIN is often displayed with details fi d parents Marriage link FAMC Toma TCCOrU marriages Marriage link FAMS sex sex choice SEX When RINs are displayed in PediTree forena
34. be added to a database or whether conversion is needed as described above It can also combine a number of GEDCOM list exports into a single GEDCOM file See the on line help for GedUtils for more information 133 Chapter 13 Appendices Chapter 13 Appendices A Shortcut keys As an alternative to using a mouse pointer there are some functions that can be performed from the keyboard These shortcut keys vary depending on the type of display Generally they are listed when you press F1 for help but there are some generic keys that you can try See chapter 7 section D for keys used in the Edit display Main menus use Alt letter e g Alt F file menu items press the letter that is underlined pop up right click menu items press the letter that is underlined In List windows usually Ctrl will bring up the pop up menu from which a letter will choose a menu item Home goes to the beginning and End to the end of the list Esc will usually close a display window Tab will usually move the cursor to another part component in a window or will move right between edit cells Shift tab will move left between cells Ctrl in list windows will pop up a context menu like right click Ctrl tab will bring another window to the front F1 gives help on the current menu item or window F4 toggles the Detail Box to full window and back Esc closes it Ctrl F4 closes the active window F8 from a list will choose that Person or Marr
35. be referenced in Detail Box swipes Images can be shown in Wide BRIEF Trees and Reports Although references to other types of file can be placed here this might cause problems if information is transferred to another program using GEDCOM However other file types can be used in any text that appears in a Detail Box If the type used is a registered type in your Windows set up the file can be opened automatically by swiping them forwards The path or filename must start with one backslash or it must follow a drive identifier like c See main menu File gt check Files linked for a method of checking these entries 28 Chapter 3 Using the Databases title title of photo or recording date date of recording not in GEDCOM standard file file path with filetype such as bmp BMP wav WAV or jpg JPG format format such a bmp or wav file GEDCOM standard Changed Group Any manual edit of a record in PediTree will update the date and time in this group The Replace Text function global edit or GEDCOM import do not update this group date of the last edit of the record time ofthe last edit of the record notes any comment you want to make 29 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions There are various places in PediTree where you type some text including field names to specify what you want done These texts are known as expressions To sort a list you type a series
36. can choose to have PediTree remember the folder used for this dialogue rather than default to that containing your database folder see Section D above The same folder is used for both exporting and importing GEDCOM files The chosen file is read with progress indication in the status line of the PediTree display Note there is a file named control ged in every PediTree database folder Although this is in GEDCOM format it contains the database definitions not the family information Attempting to import this file will cause chaos 3 On completion an Import display appears as shown opposite with a summary of the file to be imported There is a line for each record type showing the 129 Chapter 12 GEDCOM number of records the resulting Samay Faa NOL SOUR RINS if the import proceeds and the eee ee a number of unknown tags for that EZ mo sm SOUR 105 7m 1 record type Itis possible to proceed only if there are no unknown tags that is tags not matched in the cur rent database definition The Add button is enabled only if there are no unknowns and you are in Edit update mode The purpose of the Save Actions and Load Actions but tons will be explained shortly Fond compl O08 seconds Load Actos 4 There is a separate tab for each record type that shows the details chosen by clicking on the tab label in Se the usual way There is a line for each GEDCOM tag with the tag indented to show group member ship
37. contains operator on this date format If you want to find circa dates then birth date contains will find all birth date s that are about or circa Finally quarter dates are evaluated with the month and day set as follows Q1 1832 183201Q1 Q2 1832 183204Q2 Q3 1832 18320793 Q4 1832 18321094 which allows a search like birth date contains q but the sequence of sorting such dates will be about one month into each quarter C Useful Filters Used in filtered searches see chapter 6 section C filter scripts are simply condi tional expressions that will evaluate as true for those records you wish to find or select Here are some useful examples Person or Marriage Lists Extract people or marriages that appears on any tree treeref present Extract people or marriages who appear on trees A or C treeref contains A or treeref contains c Person Lists Extract unrelated people parents absent and marriages absent Extract people who married more than once marriages gt 1 Extract people who did not have any children marriages children 0 39 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions Extract people who did not leave a male child not marriages children sex M Extract people whose spouse shared the same surname surname spouses surname Extract people and their spouses with surname Kennedy surname Kennedy or marriages wife surname Kennedy or marriages husband surname Kennedy To sele
38. dialogue pop up menu and create a new List display of all the fields in groups that are of type date such as birth date 88 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions except in the changed group Fields of type date in a record such as Source date are also excluded The dates are listed in the ISO YY YYMMDD format for correct sorting with field names and record identification using the first picture script for that record type appended Date prefixes of before equal circa and after are shown as lt gt See Date comparisons in chapter 4 section B Here is a sample list that has been sorted 18690000 occupation from of John WAUGH P1684 18690000 occupation to of Margaret McKay MOWAT P1520 18690219 birth date of Isabella BRUCE P0009 18690426 birth date of David WISHART P1933 18690500 lt death date of William SINCLAIR P1526 A right click pops up the usual context menu to Save to file Sort etc This list is temporary and will not appear in the Choose List dialogue nor is it saved between sessions A useful chronological event dates list for part of your family can be made as fol lows Choose a family plan of descendants or ancestors using the Choose List dialogue right click on this list and choose List dates Right click in the new List display and choose Sort to get it into order by date This now lists all the events for descendant spouse and Marriage records in the order in which t
39. entries in this menu will vary depending upon the type of list and whether you are in Edit mode or not The following paragraphs give brief descriptions of each possible Alan ROE POOT entry son of M003 ROE F Mark Id person list only will bapt 170ct1 835 in Slindon Sussex mark the Person Jd ready for placing aged 26 m 17Jun1862 in Slindon Sussex to Susan SHARP P002 A pd E 1840 27May1875 d 22 and had 3 children them in an empty family position A E Semara noe PoUs 17Dec1 865 in Worthing Sussex source SO02 cert m to Tessa TILMAN PO06 Chapter 6 List Display marked Person record will be shown on the Toolbar using the Person marked picture script Save list text GED save the list to a file in various formats A sub menu will allow you to choose from text GEDCOM 4 Pedigree or GEDCOM 5 5 A stand ard Save As dialogue will be shown with a warning if you want to overwrite an existing file The text form has a maximum line length of 255 characters Choosing GEDCOM 4 will save the list records for import to another Pedigree Software database To save the list records for import to other software choose GEDCOM 5 5 This option will only be available if your database is suitable see chapter 12 section D If you draw a Table see below then you will have options for saving as an image or in tab delimited RTF or CSV formats RIN select brings up an edit box in which you can enter a
40. for each record type in a database To select an existing Edit panel right click in the Field column of the Edit dis play and choose Edit Panel from the context menu This will produce a sub menu that will have the names of any Edit panels defined plus lt all fields gt the default Edit display and Modify Panel Choosing a defined Edit panel will apply that Source 03Apr1871 census ref RG10 9999 p99 675 High Street Wo loj x C1 census 03Apr1871 Alan ROE head age 35 Draper C2 census 03Apr1871 Frances ROE dau age 4 C3 census 03Apr1871 Charles Henry ROE son age 2 C4 census 03Apr1871 George ROE brother age 32 Grocer 65 Chapter 7 Editing Records selection to the Edit display its title bar will show the name of the selected panel in brackets thus census as in the illustration on the previous page To change an existing Edit panel or define a new one choose Modify Panel from the context sub menu This will put up a Change Edit Panels for record type dia logue Change Edit Panels Dialogue This dialogue allows you to modify existing Edit panels or add new ones Select a panel to be modified in the list x under Edit Panels The first choice Edit Panels Record Fields Panel Fields lt all fields gt cannot be modified Name for Source lt alll fhebds gt me The right hand list Panel Fields shows text the fields selected by the chosen Edit ponies Panel This list is not shown for lt all pri fields gt
41. highlighted Edit Mode The following additional entries are present when in Edit mode Detach Id here Id is a spouse or a child detach a child from their parents family or a spouse from their other half in the marriage If you intend to place the detached person elsewhere then Mark them first When detached only the 51 Chapter 5 Family Display and Detail Box link is removed this person remains the current marked person ready for placing in a new relationship Insert Zd insert a new child or marriage in between existing entries Select the child or marriage before which the new entry is to come then right click and choose this option There are other ways to add a new child or marriage after any existing ones Delete Jd delete the record of the person or marriage Unlike Detach above this removes all links and the record entirely from the database Add marriage add a new marriage after any existing ones for this person Place Zd place a previously marked person as a child or a spouse in an empty position Here d will identify the person to be placed C Family Updating when in Edit mode Ifa child is in the wrong sequence by birth or christening date and the database was based on Elton55 then the child number shown in the left column will have a question mark To move a child within a family drag the child number using the left mouse button to the correct position The rows will be interchanged on
42. in Tet Line Import 140 records to Recordtype Parson x Both record type and target field are chosen from drop down lists by click ing on the down arrow to the right of their list boxes After you have chosen the record type the Target Field drop down list is populated with the possible fields All fields for that record type are shown including those within groups but excluding link fields such as source You cannot import into Target Field Read complete in 0 00 seconds To erable impot set Targets and Edt mode 74 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions link fields The example here shows the Target Field list dropped down also the revised field names Click on each import field in turn to choose the appropriate target To assist you you can display the information in the chosen import field by clicking the View data button Once you have made your choices you can save them by clicking on the Save Actions button A standard Windows File Open dialogue allows you to choose a filename for this which will have the extension CSA You can then reload these choices at a future time by clicking the Load Actions button rather than having to make your selections all over again The information saved includes the set ting of the Field Titles in 1st Line box the record type and all target fields It only remains to click the Import button This is disabled until you have chosen at least one target field and
43. in it but PediTree provides the means to create your own empty database from Elton55 Pedigree Software s databases are specially constructed to hold family history information Such information is primarily about relationships between people Each person has two parents and any number of marriages or partnerships each of which can result in any number of children These databases record people marriages and the links between them You don t have to worry about how this is done the program does it for you but knowledge of the link arrangements will be useful to you when using PediTree Each database design incorporates several types of record each with its own fields to hold the information The design also specifies how the information is to appear on the screen or in printed form The mechanism for this called picture scripts is the subject of chapter 4 Both the database design in terms of record types and their fields and the associated picture scripts can be changed to give modified or new designs The database design is stored in a file named control ged that resides in a folder with other database files see chapter 13 section D for more on files used Although this file has the file type GED it should not be confused with other GEDCOM files of the same type that can be exported from and imported into PediTree File control ged contains no family history information Types of Record PediTree s databases have
44. is not a good idea to use ages marriage for this event The Elton55 database uses the Marriage picture scripts below to show the ages of husband and wife MarWife Marriage if marriage date present then aged husband age Jend if Mah pacmcnetee between C and then else m en if husband marriages gt 1 then C marriagenumber end normal marriage 3 wife present then to wifeName Ui Ma PAGS G3Ee present then aged wife age end en MarHusb Marriage if marriage date present then aged wife age Jend if marriage notes between and then else end if wife marriages gt 1 then C marriagenumber end normal marriage to nameChusband if marriage date present then aged husband age end You can use these picture script names in the detailBox picture script for Person as follows name title ref refnum treeQ treeparQ ages occupation b detail birth bapt ages christening educated at education familiesQ address agesCresidence d ages death bur ages burial will ages will man aae araa l ae eee 43 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions notes separator cite sources separator Mentioned in censuses Objects objects F Links picture script Main menu File gt Check database can check all records that have a user specified two way link between two types of record This check
45. is now in most common use and has some features that cannot be implemented directly in Pedigree Software s databases However this version can be exported by PediTree from databases that have certain additional picture scripts such as those based on Elton55 It can be imported into PediTree after conversion using the utility program GedUtils Version 5 5 can also be pro duced from GEDCOM 4 files using the utility Ped FHS exe B Sample of a GEDCOM 4 File Here are two fragments from a GEDCOM file with the Person record for Alan Roe and his Marriage record GEDCOM uses INDI for Person and FAM for Mar riage O I1 INDI Start of Person Record RIN P1 1 SEX M 1 NAME Alan Roe Forenames Surname 1 FAMC F3 Link to parents marriage 1 FAMS F1 Link to Alan s marriage M1 1 CHR Christening Event group 2 DATE 17 Oct 1835 2 PLAC Slindon Sussex 2 NOTE Christening source parish register at West Sussex Record Office 1 DEAT Death Event group 2 DATE 14 May 1910 2 PLAC Brighton 1 EDUC Brighton Grammar school 1 occu Occupation group 2 TITL farmer 2 PLAC worthing 2 FROM 1862 O F1 FAM Alan s marriage record RIN M1 126 Chapter 12 GEDCOM 1 HUSB I1 Link to Alan s Person record 1 WIFE I2 Link to his wife s Person record 1 CHIL I3 Links to 3 children 1 CHIL I5 1 CHIL I4 1 MARR Marriage Event group 2 DATE 17 Jun 1862 2 PLAC Slindon Sussex Each line starts with the level followe
46. list the col our of the list changes to remind you A right click produces a pop up menu with two added entries Add field name Save changes If there are Siow Tapes Person chil event marr event divo adopted Person adop b div logical div records in the database then you can Choice Types WileSumame text wSn divorce only change the GEDCOM tag or add notes longtext note a new field at the end of the definition refnum text refn objects ahbinct chie Help on refnum Print portrait v Change definition Add field name Save changes F9 You must choose Save changes or changed press key F9 to keep any alterations you have made When you do this the database will be closed and re opened Alternatively to abandon your changes press the Esc key or right click and choose Change definition again to clear the tick mark 17 Chapter 2 Family History Databases Note each type of data definition has to be changed separately and saved by pressing F9 or right clicking and choosing Save changes before looking at another type of data The changes you make affect only the currently open database If you have other similar databases to which you want to make the same changes you will have to modify each one individually Alternatively for each existing database you can export the information as a GEDCOM file make a new empty database from the modified one and import the GEDCOM file into the new one Changing Re
47. make this clear for dates in January March before 1752 in Eng land the convention is to show them in the dual year form PediTree understands this and works on the later year to correspond to modern usage 80 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions If we were now to re run the date check the report would still appear as Cather ine s marriage is dated 1540 In fact you also get a message about marriage 5 being out of order This is because the date 1540 is before 6 Jan 1539 40 in PediTree s view A bare year corre sponds to the day before 1 January month and year with no day corre sponds to the day before the first of the given month We need to sharpen up the date of Catherine s marriage click on tab 5 right click on the marriage choose Edit M44 and change the mar riage date to 28 July 1540 Here is part of the Family display after these changes have been made If you now run check dates once more you should Family of M061 Henry VIII P112 amp Anne P151 Henry VILL PLL IS Wronage IAIOA dant 780 ins L 18D A Arne of Cleves PISI Henry Vill P112 6 partners son of M040 Henry Vil P110 amp Elizabeth P111 b 1491 aged 18 m 1 1509 to Catherine P1139 div 1533 and had one child 1 Mary P119 1516 1558 m to Philip Il of Spain P120 aged 42 m 2 1533 to Anne BOLEYN P114 and had one child 1 Elizabeth P121 1533 1603 m to Sir Walter RALEIGH P149 aged
48. multiple marriages 2 Tree Line Style changes for blood lines of your ancestors or dashed lines for illegitimate children 3 Family descent and ascent trees limited by another plan usually a blood line to show only siblings of ancestors not all collateral lines Editing 1 Global search for text in any text field or restricted to records in a list 2 Global find and replace text in any text field or restricted to records in a list 3 Rearrange the sequence of children in a family using drag and drop 4 Warning of incorrect birth christening sequence 5 Pick place names from your own pick list Pick lists for Choice fields Definition changes 1 Rearrange order of fields in an empty database 2 Insert a new field in an empty database 3 Default brief and detailBox picture scripts 4 New Jumbo and Massive database types with 6 or 9 Mb file sizes 148 Index Action See GEDCOM import ac tion add child 52 field 61 matriage 52 person 51 record 58 82 adoption 23 age now 42 age then 42 Ancestors chart 109 create 100 Ancestors plan 87 create 83 restricted 88 authorship rectangle 113 116 124 back up database 105 GEDCOM 81 Census record 14 using 26 Changed group 14 29 changing choice type words 19 field names 18 group type names 18 record type names 18 common law 23 CSV 73 file 73 import 73 import using 75 database 8 11 back up 81 check 71 76 check dates 72
49. name in the blank at the bottom of the Edit Panels list before adding and arranging the fields as described above Finally click OK to record the new panel You can have up to six Edit panels for each record type in a database D Using the Keyboard All editing functions can be carried out using the keyboard alone except selecting and modifying Edit panels Some of the keyboard alternatives to mouse functions have been mentioned in the preceding text but here is a complete list Use the up down arrow or Tab keys to move between fields On a field marked Enter or F4 expands the Group or opens the Text display On a field marked Enter or F4 collapses the Group re a text field of more than twenty characters Enter or F4 opens the Text dis play In the Edit display Ctrl S or F9 save changes and close the display Esc to aban don changes In the Text display F4 F9 or Esc return to the Edit display In a pick list use up down arrows to select Enter to choose Esc to leave the pick list without making a choice In Edit display or Text display F3 or Ctrl R copy the data from the same field in the last edited record of this type The standard Windows keys Ctrl C copy Ctrl X cut and Ctrl V paste oper ate in either Edit display or Text display The following operate only when appropriate Ctrl A append another field after the current one Ctrl D delete a field Ctrl E edit a linked record or link to a new reco
50. number of Census records one for each line individual A field in the Source record called censuses has been provided for this purpose In the Census record type the fields relate directly to the familiar census layout and are refnum a serial number so that lines can be kept in order when sorting This needs to be a fixed size number 001 002 010 101 in order to sort correctly forenames surname relationship use one of head wife son gson dau gdau m in law status use one of m u wid wdr sex use one of M F derived from the column in which the age is entered age use the following symbols if the age is not just a simple number of years y md gt lt for example 2y 3m or lt 5y less than 5 years old occupation use lower case and be as standard as possible countyBorn Chapman code e g DBY WAR 26 Chapter 3 Using the Databases born parish country use the international 3 letter code in capitals or else type it as seen notes conditions like blind and born abroad source Source record link from the document individual link to Person record if you know this Person already See the Getting Started Guide chapter 6 section E for a tutorial on entering cen sus records Event Group Used in both Person and Marriage records this has the following fields date enter as known Year only 1994 month and year Apr 1994 day month amp year 9 Apr 1994 are all allowed
51. of field names These can be fields in the records you are sorting or they can be fields in linked records For example Person records can be sorted by the field name surname Marriage records can be sorted by husband surname in the linked Person record To filter i e to select some records from a list you type a comparison also known as a logical expression Records are selected if the comparison is true The simplest filter expressions have a field name and the selection criteria for example surname Smith A filter can use a linked field husband surname Smith Then several comparisons can be combined For example surname Smith or husband surname Smith finds people called Smith either by birth or by marriage To alter the way information is displayed or printed you change a picture script At its simplest a picture script is a series of field names and group names For example the picture script Forenames surname birth death produces the display Susan Sharp c 1840 27 May 1875 in Brighton In this c is the standard abbreviation for circa before a date the word in comes from a subsidiary named picture script built in to PediTree and used by default You immediately want to put in born and died or abbreviations for them Then you find that if there is no information about the birth you would like the christening details with appropriate text Then perhaps add Dtr of father forenames father su
52. on birth date christening date death date if you want people sorted into roughly their life years PediTree inserts a comma between keys in the generated list in order to ensure that an empty key field will sort before other records with that key present e g Smith 1887 4 Click OK and PediTree will make a new indexed list temporarily called a ViewIndex ViewIndex is the temporary name for an index when it is being cre ated It will appear as the caption of the new index window until it is selected again 5 Finally PediTree creates a new List display showing the list using the picture script called List for that record type The standard indexes for an Elton55 database use these keys List Record type Key 1 Key 2 Key 3 1 Person surname forenames birth date 2 Marriage husband surname wife forenames 3 Source date type refnum 4 Census surname forenames source date 5 Census source RIN refnum Earlier database designs may omit List 5 those without a Census record type have Lists 1 3 only 86 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Automatic Index Repair If you ever have to leave PediTree without a normal exit then lists and indexes in particular will not be updated This can result in the index sizes becoming une qual to the number of records left in your database PediTree detects this when you next choose the List dialogue and attempts to repair the indexes if the discrepancy is less than 100 It does n
53. or File gt Open or choose one of the last databases listed at the bottom of a lton55 ped the File menu Ee a ea The first two options will bring up an Open Database dialogue It should list the databases in the same folder as your last database but you may have to double click on the parent folder to redisplay all its databases Double click on 72 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions a ped pdg pdh pdj or pdm database or on the drive to select another direc tory Click on the disk letter for another disk drive The hour glass cursor will show while a new database opened All the picture scripts are checked for correct syntax and an error message may warn you to look at Alt H G for diagnostics or just Alt O P for the picture scripts in error If there are no records or some other peculiarity on loading see Options gt Defini tions The last list used will be shown first but overdrawn with a Family display for the family in use when this database was last closed New Database Use this after opening a database to make a new empty database with the same data definitions picture scripts and reports In this dialogue check that the folder name is the one where you want the new database If not then navigate the folder structure to select the folder Do not choose another database folder or else the new database will be filed inside it Type a unique name of up to 8 char acters to keep compati
54. picture script name output too before the new line All separa tor commands will have the picture script name enclosed in braces Picture script names are suffixed by the first letter of the record type to distinguish them apart from the top level Look at the Diagnostics log if you want to get micro scopic detail but turn debug off before normal use You can save the diagnos tic log file which contains details of your database when it closes If you set the Windows gt debug check mark then the names of picture scripts used will appear interspersed with the resulting picture script in the test or in subsequent Trees Reports Detail Boxes etc This is intended to help you dis cover which picture script names are used inside a complex script and where they affect the script Be sure to turn debug off after use It will fill the log list file if nothing else J Picture Script Errors If you see a box showing a syntax error when loading a database the Diagnostics log will keep a note of which picture script was faulty If the error was at the end of a long script that was last edited in Pedigree for DOS it is possible that a line in the script is over 255 characters If so then using Pedigree for DOS edit that picture script and press the Enter key at a suitable point to break the script into shorter sections Other common mistakes in scripts from Pedigree for DOS are contain instead of contains and too many end
55. records using RINs 2 Much quicker following of links hypertext or in edit grids e g from Person Source Census Person 3 Two way updating of links Person Census Census Source 4 Hypertext links to image file displays and sound 5 Optional date amp time stamping of records updated Saving Information 1 GEDCOM Export in version 5 5 2 Tables can be saved in tab delimited CSV and RTF formats Multiple Windows and Lists 1 Many concurrent windows open to compare data from the same or different record type 2 Switching windows concurrently open to review lists data detail whilst pre viewing a print 3 Statistics on number of people at each chart generation 147 Chapter 13 Appendices 4 Lists open at current record 5 Indexes made on the first field present in one key with several fields such as birth date christening date death date 6 Selected list of chronological individuals events occupations and residences 7 Complete or selected alphabetical listing of place names mentioned on events as above making a de duplicated pick list for use when editing Print Previews 1 WYSIWYG page displays to show exactly what would appear on each page of trees charts and tables 2 Selective page reprinting of trees charts and tables 3 Overall wide and tall tree preview diagram 4 Prevention of widowed and orphaned parts of records at the foot and top of tables Trees 1 Double lines connecting
56. the Enter key or Ctrl P brings up a pick list of the possible values Click on the desired entry or move to it and press Enter to select that entry Click outside the pick list or press Esc to close the pick list without changing the entry Text A single field of less than twenty characters can only be edited in the single line of the Edit display The text will scroll as you type Once the text in a single field is longer than twenty characters you can use the Text display to view or change the text To obtain the Text display click on the to the left of it or press Enter A field of type text is limited to 255 characters about four lines you will be warned when you reach this limit Long Text Can only be edited in a Text display produced by clicking on the to the left of it or pressing Enter The standard Windows editing techniques can be used Up to 4096 characters are allowed in longtext fields Dates Dates may be entered with a prefix suchas bef b aft a abt cir c a day number 1 9 01 31 or without a day possibly followed by space a month name such as Jan Dec JAN DEC 63 Chapter 7 Editing Records possibly followed by space a year such as 1842 or two digits representing 1900 1999 unless you have changed the base century in Options gt Dates possibly followed by a stroke with a dual year which must be consecutive from the full year e g 1741 2 1749 50 1499 1500 In this case the m
57. the available lists may be selected for display from the main menu List gt Choose or the corresponding button on the toolbar E A Types of List There are nine different types of lists that may be shown in the List display 1 An Index on a single record type headed e g List 1 Indexed This Roespang Umameorenames binh date is the only type of list that stays up to eo Charles Henry ROE P004 1869 date as you make changes to your data Frances ROE POOS jigs Malcolm ROE P007 base Created by List gt Create Index Susan SHARP P002 c 1840 27May1875 Tessa TILMAN P006 with one or more keys specified End of List indexed with 8 Person records 2 A filled list of a single record type Man ROE Poor headed e g List 2 Filled Created Json ot chen south by List gt Create Index with no keys b in Slindon Sussex E bapt 170ct1 835 in Slindon Sussex specified or by filtering another list aged 26 m 17Jun1862 in Slindon Sussex to Susan SHARP P002 c 1840 27May1875 aged 22 and had 3 children 3 A sorted list of a single record type Send ft poa rocco i Wyong Sussex headed e g List 3 Sorted Created 1 by sorting another filled list or index When re opened this type will appear as a filled list 4 An Ancestors Plan headed e g List 4 AncTree This is a plan for a tree of ancestors created by choosing List gt Ancestors plan or the co
58. up a list of possible entries A click on any entry in the list will insert it into the field press Esc to close the list without changing the field Pick from list Ctrl P Edit mode place field brings up a display of place names which will contain those defined earlier by yourself see Place Fields below A click on any place name in the list will insert it into the field press Esc to close the list without changing the field Pick filename Ctrl P Edit mode field named file in a group browse for an image file of type BMP or JPG or a sound file with a standard Windows Open File dialogue See the Objects File Field paragraph below Place link to Id Edit mode empty link field relevant current record defined copy a link to the relevant current record into this field Zd is the link that will be copied The current record is the most recently selected record of the type appro priate to this link field Link to new type record Edit mode empty link field create a new record and link to it type is the record type You will be asked to confirm the creation of the new record Edit linked type record Edit mode non empty link field open an Edit display on the record identified in this field Text Display For fields of type text with more than twenty characters and for longtext fields this display provides the ability to enter or change the text This is the only way that longtext fields can be edited for text field
59. use the buttons on the speed bar to find it in an index or display the relevant Family dis play For more facilities click the Make List button to produce a separate List dis play with Detail box This List display is temporary but has the usual context right click pop up menu allowing you to Mark a person Save the list as text Edit the record Print the Detail box Draw a Report Clicking the Web Output button brings up the Web Output Dialogue for the island s currently selected See the Web Output section below for further details 93 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Export GEDCOM Continuing the possibilities for a selection of one or more islands you can export the selection as a GEDCOM file The choices here are to export Version 4 Pedigree or Version 5 5 if your database design is suitable You can also choose whether to include linked records or not If you choose to include linked records then the output will include for example Source and Census records that are linked to the Person and Marriage records in the selected islands In addition you will get any adopted children Person records that are linked to Marriage records in the selected islands Once you have selected your options then click the OK button in the GEDCOM Export box You will then get the usual Windows File Save dialogue so that you can choose a filename and folder for the export Splitting a Database One possible use for GEDCOM expo
60. variable which contains Y if you have chosen to display RINs the generation number of a person or marriage This can be used when sorting or filtering tree plans as well as in pic ture scripts used for trees or charts the strip number of a person or marriage the descendant on a tree or chart also valid in other Person contexts the spouse on a tree or chart also valid in other Person con texts the spouse of this person an individuals s parents husband an individual s parents wife the marriage record on a Tree or Chart the number of the current person on a tree or chart 1 eldest the number of the current marriage 1 first a reference to a position within a tree e g A2 13 Treeref is slightly more complex than the other variables When used within a tree picture it contains any positions on the tree where the person or marriage is duplicated This could happen if cousins marry for instance To inform you when someone appears on a tree more than once the picture scripts in Elton55 use the following also at treeref When treeref is used within a filter table or report it contains all the positions on all the trees that include the particular person or marriage It is used to cross ref erence people with the trees which contain them A treeref consists of a capital letter from A onwards for the plan followed by the generation number a colon and the strip number e g A5 7 A plan
61. will be remem ae NewRoman po Tet Spacing cs Date in tite bered for subsequent runs Click on a row to change one of Main body for the text in most of the report default Times New Roman 10 black Background for the text defined in report background and the colour for the lines However the font size will be taken from the main body If the font name is different then there may be overlap problems if the font widths vary a lot from main body default Times New Roman 10 blue Background Lines will be thickened if you spin the Line Width arrows to 3 or 4 default 2 Size 1 may not be clear on some printers Zero will hide all lines Titles and Headings for the two lines at the top of every chart report and one line on wide trees see Date and Page number below default Arial 12 black view DetailBox for the text shown when you click the small Detail Box at the foot of List Chart and Family displays default Times New Roman 10 black 101 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Date in title for the date in the top left hand corner of all printouts Its format will be the same as you have set in Options gt dates You can suppress it by changing its colour to white default Arial 8 black Page number for the page number in Tables Charts and Trees default Arial 8 black view List for the list not plan the font can be changed from the default System 10 black to another perhaps Courier if you rely
62. with a recommendation to use the separate Database Utility program to check and correct it Check Files Linked This function examines each field of type text or longtext including field objectfile for file names like path filename type optionally preceded by a drive identifier like c For each such file name found PediTree checks that the file is present on the machine Any not found will be displayed in a new List display in the same form as for the Find text function Date Check Facility This facility extends the checking of vital dates in PediTree records Some checks are performed using the validate picture scripts but these are limited in extent The new facility duplicates and extends the checking as will be explained What are the vital dates in this context They are those associated with birth christening marriage divorce death and burial These are vital in two senses they are concerned with life and death they are very important in family history research There are other dates in the usual family history records information about occupation residence and wills often have associated dates but we haven t attempted to include such dates in this checking process As mentioned earlier some checks are made using the validate picture scripts in database design Elton55 v611 If your database has these validate scripts then these checks are also done when editing records thus providing immediate warn ing of some possib
63. 129 amp Anne P0893 Captain Hark PHILLIPS P129 2 children Anne PO89 PHILLIPS LAURENCE Anne P089 Princess Royal 2 partners dau of M029 Philip PO60 amp Elizabeth Il P067 b 1950 aged 23 m 1 14Nov1973 to Captain Mark PHILLIPS P129 aged 25 div 1992 and had 2 children 1 Peter PHILLIPS P130 15Nov1977 2 Zara PHILLIPS P131 15May1981 aged 42 m 2 12Dec1992 to Tim LAURENCE P154 aged 37 no children changed 24Jul2004 21 28 A Using the Family Display Double click on a child a grandparent or a grandparents marriage to redisplay the window with that person or couple in the centre Children will be shown with an sign if married with a sign or left facing triangle if they have their own children so that you can see which ones to expand Grandparents that themselves have parents will be shown with a right facing tri angle Note If a vertical line is shown instead use Print gt fonts to select Family fonts Ensure that the Terminal font is chosen for triangles or another font for lt or gt symbols and click OK or perhaps change the size of the font too Returning to the Family display double click a parent to refresh the display and hopefully the display will look similar to the 49 Chapter 5 Family Display and Detail Box illustration If you have not chosen Terminal font then close the DB and when it reopens the triangles or faulty symbol will be replaced in child and p
64. 45 m 3 1536 to Jane SEYMOUR P115 and had one child 1 Edward VI P122 1537 1553 aged 49 m 4 06Jan1539 40 to Anne P151 aged 25 div Jul 1540 no children aged 49 m 5 28Jul1540 to Catherine HOWARD P116 no children aged 52 m 6 1543 to Catherine PARR P117 no children d 1547 aged 56 Objects pedigree HenryVIll jpg changed 10Nov2009 18 28 get No queries in Date check That completes the tutorial presenta tion of dealing with Date Check mes sages in the Royal03 database There s just one other date related issue that arises in the use of the Date Check you need to be careful about the sequence of dates for a person when you are uncertain of them For example if you have a birth date of 3 Jun 1836 for an individual not you and a death date of 1836 then this will produce a query in date check The answer in this case is to enter the death as aft 3 Jun 1836 In the case of Anne of Cleves we could have entered her divorce date as bef 28 Jul 1540 and got the correct result The same technique works for quarter dates taken from GRO information born Q3 1882 christened aft Q3 1882 is OK GEDCOM Back up There is an option automatically to export a GEDCOM file when closing a data base if any records have been changed whilst it is open This is intended as a safety feature to provide a semi automatic back up of your data An additional benefit is that during a GEDCOM export PediTree reads every record in you
65. 768 numbers e g 87 choices written out in full e g F female When comparing dates they must be identical to be equal i e 2 Nov 1907 lt gt Nov 1907 is true If any part of the date is missing then that date is assumed to be the earliest pos sible for comparison purposes i e 2 Nov 1907 gt Nov 1907 1 Jan 1876 gt 1876 36 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions The words before and after may be used instead of lt and gt respectively For example the following should hold true birth date before death date Note that when the death date is absent this test is false This is because PediTree takes the earliest possible date the year zero Hence you must be careful when using expressions involving dates To save typing the following is useful a between b and c This is shorthand for a after b and a before c Note that b and c must be literals To find out whether a field is present or absent in a record you can use the fol lowing field name present e g marriages present finds out whether someone married field name absent e g birth date absent finds whether someone s birth date is unknown Note that these are shorthand versions of the following f present is equivalent to f lt gt 0 number of occurrences of f not zero f absent is equivalent to f 0 Finally there are two logical expressions which only work with text contains finds out whether one piece of text includes another like compares
66. 77 check files linked 72 77 check free space 77 close 71 create new 73 definitions list 16 102 field types 12 fields 12 mandatory fields 16 Index more than one 20 move to another size format 142 new 72 73 open 72 open from Windows shortcut 135 quit 71 save as GEDCOM 71 save definitions 71 single 20 splitting 94 storage 15 database design Census 15 changing 16 Elton55 11 Fam55 15 Families 15 Royal03 11 date check tutorial 78 dates check 77 editing 63 definitions database 16 delete field 62 matriage 52 person 52 record 58 Descendants chart 109 create 100 Descendants plan 87 create 83 restricted 87 detach person 51 Detail Box 53 filenames 53 hot links 53 zoom 53 diagnostics log 108 log on off 108 edit mark 60 149 Index c mark 60 choice field 63 context menu 61 dates 63 Detail grid 68 Edit display 60 Edit panel change 66 Edit panels 65 field editing 61 GEDCOM import actions 132 keyboard use 67 links 65 longtext 63 object file field 64 place 64 record 82 Record grid 67 replace text 68 save 61 text 63 Text display 62 Edit validation 63 Edit mode 82 Event group 14 date 27 notes 27 place 27 using 27 exit PediTree 72 expressions complex comparisons 38 date comparisons 38 simple comparisons 36 useful filters 39 family select new 82 start new 83 Family display 49 multiple marriages 50 field
67. A click on any place name in the list will insert it into the field See the example opposite 64 Chapter 7 Editing Records Link Fields Link fields will have two additional entries in the pop up menu produced by a right click Place link Zd copy a link to the relevant current record into this field Zd is the link that will be copied The current record is the most recently selected record of the type appropriate to this link field if none this entry will not appear Link to new type record empty field only create a new record and link to it type is the record type You will be asked to confirm the creation of the new record Non empty link fields will have an entry Edit linked type record which will open an Edit display on the record identified in this field Typing a RIN into a link field is not recommended It is much easier to use Place link to insert a link to the current record of the appropriate type having first found the record in a list or elsewhere and selected it by a click to make it the current record C Edit Panels There are a lot of fields in some of the standard record types not all of which can be seen in the Edit display without scrolling For some data entry or editing oper ations it is convenient to show only some fields perhaps in a different order from that defined Edit panels allow this to be done you can choose which fields to display and in what order Up to six Edit panels can be defined
68. Family Display and Detail Box Detach them from an earlier marriage and when you place them again that will become their last marriage with any children of that marriage You cannot insert an existing marriage only detach and place all the children and other spouse after inserting a new Marriage record as above D Detail Box Each of the main displays has a facility to show the full details of a selected record in a bottom panel called the Detail Box This uses a picture script called DetailBox for each record type to define how the record is displayed In the List display if this is showing a plan then the PLANdetailBox picture script for a person is used This shows the database version in the form YMM e g DB Families 412 for Dec 94 if this is defined in the database If you right click in the List Family or Chart display you can get a pop up menu and can choose to print this Detail Box using the heading and body font A left click will zoom the Detail Box expanding the width to full screen It will then use the font selected in the Print menu for the Detail Box Another click or the Esc key will return the Detail Box to its original size In the List or Family displays key F4 will toggle the Detail Box between zoomed and normal size The usual movement keys can be used to browse the text in the Detail Box If you right click within the detail box you will be able to use standard Windows select Cut Copy amp Past
69. If the last character of the first item is alphanumeric including foreign characters and the first character of the second item is either alphanumeric or an opener character lt then a space is inserted 2 If the last character of the first item is a closer character gt and the first character of the second item is alphanumeric then a space is inserted 3 Otherwise no space is inserted Variables PediTree maintains a number of values which you can make use of These include the generation and strip numbers in tree plans as well as various values for use on printouts All of these values are called variables The variables that represent records can be used in the same way as the links mentioned above For example spouse forenames treemarriage divorce date Although number is not a standard field type some variables represent numbers and can be used in expressions Here is a complete list of named variables used in PediTree today a date variable containing the current date from your PC s built in clock When used on its own in a script always dis plays the current date In conditional expressions can be changed in the Options gt Dates dialogue Its format is then YYYYMMDD e g 20040813 33 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions showrins generation strip descendant spouse spouses father mother treemarriage childnumber marriagenumber treeref a logical
70. M Once the settings are satisfactory a Decth Burial missing I click on Run starts the checking proc Close Help ess As it runs the current record number is shown at the bottom of the PediTree window On conclusion a List display shows the results The variable parameters set some limits for dates Maximum age sets a limit on the age of a person so that suspicious birth christening or death burial dates may be detected Parent s minimum age at birth and Mother s maximum age at birth control checks on the given parents ages when a child is born Similarly Minimum age at marriage sets a limit on this for both spouses Ifa person s record has no birth or christening date then the relevant checks cannot be per formed of course you can chose to have this situation reported Similarly no death or burial date prevents any check of maximum age Again you can choose to have this situation reported with no report being made if the person might still be alive birth christening known and age at the date of checking less than the maximum set In order to illustrate the way to use date checking here is a tutorial based on a demonstration given by Murray Kennedy during the PUG meeting at Oxford in November 2009 You should all have the Royal03 database and may or may not have worked through the tutorial in the Getting Started Guide If you haven t done that you need first to do just one section Chapter 3 section J 3 before t
71. Settings to reach the Options dialogue to change the session default to always Edit mode You must have a valid PediTree registration file to edit a database of more than 150 records See chapter 13 section C for details Family select a new family for the display based on the currently selected per son and their own marriage or their parents marriage The Toolbar button is 3 Edit record any record can be cho sen by clicking on this menu item then the record type in the sub menu A Susan SHARP P002 c Record Index Number v op typ 1840 27May1875 As Select RIN dialogue window shows the current RIN for this record type but this can be changed by entering a number or by spinning the current RIN digits Details of the selected record will be shown Note that the spin box increase and decrease arrow boxes maybe wrongly blank but will still work In Edit mode an Insert button will be present allowing you create a new record before editing it Marriage records cannot be inserted as they must be created from the Family display Person records too should be created in the Family dis play unless you don t want to enter any relationships at present Records can also be inserted from a List display by using the List pop up menu 82 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions New Family Edit mode only open a Family display with no members permit ting you to start entering the members of a new family un
72. WART of Scotland P108 amp Margaret i was found a gt symbol the name of the field and the identity of the record as in the illustration Landgrave gt surname in Frederick LANDGRAVE of Hesse Cassel P140 of Scotland gt postfix in James IV STEWART of Scotland P108 of Scotland gt postfix in James V STEWART of Scotland P107 Landgrave gt surname in William LANDGRAVE of Hesse Cassel P141 4 TEXT Items from list 1 m and had one child xj 5 You can click on entries in this list display to see the record in the Detail Box below There may be several entries for a single record if the text was found in several different fields in that record 6 Right click on a list entry to see what additional functions are available One possibility will be Save list text GED which will allow you to save the list as text in case you want to incorporate it into a document or use it in another way 7 A Find list is not stored by PediTree so will be lost if you close it by clicking the window close button or if you leave the program Relationship Islands A Relationship Island or island for short is a group of individuals all related together by marriage otherwise called blood relations If you are recording the history of one particular family then the intention will be to identify all the ancestors descendants and siblings and link them together The result should be a single island In practice t
73. a tag of X Name changes have widespread effects on picture scripts which will have to be changed individually Use PedSpecs see chapter 4 section L before making such changes to understand what these effects may be You can edit the affected scripts later in this session otherwise they will produce error messages on reo pening this database PediTree will cope with scripts in error by showing an empty panel when they are used In a new empty database a right click brings up a menu with additional entries 18 Insert field insert a field in the mid dle of the list delete objects remove a field Move row to enable moving of fields this entry will show a tick and the first column is highlighted To move a field drag the name into a new position with the left mouse button When finished with all moves right click to remove the tick by Move row Changing Choice type Words Click the Choice Types button and then a particular choice type such as sex or Chapter 2 Family History Databases refnum objects sources A aian Help on objects Print portrait v Change definition Add field name Insert field delete objects Move row Save changes F9 OEE TTR changed logical If you want to add a new one then right click to choose change defini tion and edit the spare empty name to one that you want to create Press F9 to save it and then click again to add word values to it Most of the oth
74. abs across the top of the display show the names of Tables that can be printed for the type of list that you selected To go back to the original List display click the tab for Back press the Esc key or right click and choose Back Listi Indexed with 154 Person records loj x Back Simple CrossReterence Detaled Concise 25 Aug 2004 PediTree Royal03 Person Simple table Page 154 Person list using forenames 1 B Parents P135 P082 Adelaide 1792 P077 Adolphus 1774 George II Sophia Charlotte P001 Albert 1819 P038 Albert Christian Helena P017 Albert Victor 1864 Edward VIl Alexandra P146 Alexander 1823 Ludwig II Wilhelmina P034 Alexander P049 Alexander Henry Beatrice P016 Alexandra P053 Alfonso XIII P006 Alfred Albert Victona P046 Alice adia Leopold Helena P054 Alice Back Esc Louis Victoria P005 Alice Maud Mary Print all Albert Victoria P152 Andrew Philip Elizabeth II P059 Andrew Pitonga 2 P089 Anne Layout Philiv Elizabeth II Piss Anne Se raae or t P114 Boleyn Anne Wew page 2 P132 Amstrong Anthony table Grid Jones Create new y VIL Elizabeth Arthur Louise Margaret Albert Victoria Fredenck Caroline Albert Victoria Ferdinand Marie 14Nov i948 Buckingham Palace Chapter 10 Tables and Reports Click on the tab for the Table you wish to view The display can be resized or scrolled to see the rest of the page You can view different pages by altering the page number d
75. ading style sheets to do this Some changes will destroy the layout and operation of the pages especially the charts The risk is yours entirely do not change the original file in the same folder as Peditree itself F Print Menu Choices Setup Paper use this option if you want to select a TER 7 z different printer or paper size change from Portrait agg Options window H to Landscape and so on See Set up Paper in section Setup Paper G below Fonts Fonts brings up a Style dialogue to see the printer elo at tah the usable paper size and to select fonts for printing Descendants chart for the main lists charts and reports Some screen Cancel printing fonts can be changed See Fonts in section G below Report designs 99 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Use Setup Paper before changing fonts because the selected printer may use spe cial fonts and paper sizes Ancestors chart Descendants chart these two options lead to a Choose number of Generations dialogue for an Ancestors or Descendants chart respectively See chapter 9 for more on these Charts Cancel printing abandon a print run Report designs brings up a summary dialogue with total numbers of types of Reports and Tables It is not used to select a report for printing instead use a List or Family display and right click on a record to choose a Table or Report The summary dialogue lists alphabeti cally within type of recor
76. age Export all directly x linked records such as Sources is displayed Click Yes to add linked i Export all directly linked records such as Sources records to those in the list No to export the records in the list only J m Help For a Person these may be parents spouses and adoptive parents Mar riages For Marriages these may be adopted children and both spouses and children Sources for events occupations and residences and Sources and Cen suses linked directly from the Person Exporting a plan will export all the peo ple and marriages in the plan and their directly linked records mentioned above This may add another generation at the top and bottom of a plan To merge records from a number of different lists you will need to use the facili ties provided by the utility program GedUtils version 7 In this case choose GEDCOM 4 Pedigree and export the records in the list only GedUtils will add the linked records See the on line help in GedUtils for further information E GEDCOM Import GEDCOM import occurs in two stages First the file to be imported is read and checked against the current database definition to see that it matches Secondly the actual import is performed once any mismatches found in the first phase have been resolved 1 To start choose File gt Import gt GEDCOM from the main menu 2 A standard File Open dialogue will allow you to choose the folder and file to be imported You
77. ain In Windows Times Roman Font ASCII 16 appears as a square not as a right fac ing triangular block gt ASCII 62 isa gt In Tree preview diagrams the boxes that are truncated are highlighted to enable the box size to be adjusted Timing of changes The changes to data formats RINs etc will only be applied after that information is recalculated In lists some of the list will remain in the previous format until it is re fetched from the database not just scrolled into view J Options Menu Functions Options Dialogue This dialogue can be reached either x from the Options Menu or the Win dows menu The available settings dif onan See fer slightly dependi heth pemecne_ ee er slightly depending upon whether a JP Hints Persist lt database is currently open or not Tiled no of a g 3 Y Backup on closing r Today for Now aged Sets the basis for the calculation of ages for display by PediTree s picture scripts It also sets the value of the var fic Prva ae r lable today that can be used in picture ERT aes scripts and filters See chapter 4 1900 i K C The initial setting is Now none Truncation char 16 2 Hottinkchar gt 3 which turns off the age calculation and display The drop down list contains X Concei Hep 103 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions various 19th 20th century census dates and ends with the current today s date Alternatively you can t
78. ake a note of this plan There are two suggested types of restricted plan Both types restrict the generated plan to families surrounding the line of descent between two individuals Restricted Descendants plan a Descendants plan restricted by an Ancestor plan This includes the all the children of the families on the line of descent First generate the Ancestors plan starting from the lowest individual to be 87 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions included with enough generations to include the ancestor of interest Then select that ancestor and generate a Descendants plan with the same number of generations selecting the Ancestors plan in the FamilyDescent box Restricted Ancestors plan an Ancestors plan restricted by a Descendants plan This includes the individuals on the line of descent and their spouses only First generate a Descendants plan from the oldest individual with enough generations to include the descendant of interest Then select that descendant and generate an Ancestors plan with the same number of genera tions selecting the Descendants plan in the FamilyDescent box Once you have made your selection click OK A new list display will open cap tioned Wait a Moment and the plan will be calculated to show the generation and strip positions on a Tall or Wide tree You will be given a choice of the level of tree detail later when you choose to display and print the tree See chapter 11 for displaying a
79. and place entries or about the event such as age at death Enclosing these notes in parenthesis ensures that they appear in printed reports This is useful for such things as birth notes such as illegitimate illeg or baseborn given name John Doe christening notes given name John Roe for burial notes cremated ashes scattered at MI at 27 Chapter 3 Using the Databases In a Marriage record use the marriage event notes with brackets to record e g common law so that the picture scripts will show an equals symbol in place of m source this is a link to a documentary source that is recorded separately Occupation Group title of job or skill place of employment from to starting and ending dates These can be problematic for a single census entry use e g from bef 1861 org employer or organisation source link to a documentary source that is recorded separately in a Source record Residence Group from to starting and ending dates for residence at this location See comment under Occupation group above dwelling house name road number amp road name locality district as fora town town normal U K county county address postcode or zipcode country source this is a link to a documentary source that is recorded separately in a Source record Object Group This holds a reference to a file containing an image or sound recording Both can
80. anges See also Validation below Edit Display Pop up Menu Pee aR ot Se A right click on a field name not on the data in the Edit display will bring up a context pop up menu with a number of options These depend upon the type of field whether it contains information already and the View Edit mode Note the illustration shows four dif ferent pop up menus you can only get one at a time These are the options abandon Esc abandon the changes made so far if any Edit Panel leads to a submenu see section C Edit Panels below Save Ctrl S or F9 Edit mode only save the changes made and close this dis play Help on Zd display on line help for this field Zd is the field name This only works for standard fields in Elton55 any fields that you add will produce a warn ing message instead Append new Id Insert new Zd Edit mode field or group containing information add another field or group Insert adds before the present one append adds after it 61 Chapter 7 Editing Records Delete Id Edit mode one of a set of repeated fields or groups remove this field or group Repeat text F3 Edit mode non group field copy the information from the same field in the last record edited into this field text is the information that will be copied If none this choice will be disabled Pick from list Ctrl P Edit mode choice field for a choice field such as sex marked c on the left brings
81. aptism or whatever each source should be linked to the appropriate event or just linked to the general Person sources for which you can have 250 sources 25 Chapter 3 Using the Databases If the source information gives conflicting date or place then you can create more than one birth or whatever event linked to that source If the information is identical then you can create a birth note with a reference to that source in the form Source AS123 ref 23 ABC45 where AS123 allows PediTree to hot link to that source RIN as long as it stays the same and ref 23 ABC45 is your unique reference to that source in case the RINs get renumbered This method allows several sources to be linked to one event Note see chapter 12 section G for future possibilities Keep each Source citation to a separate line in birth notes or whatever event occupation or residence for which you want multiple sources Make it the last lines if you have notes about the event itself A Source citation is the way in which we refer to a Source record detail through its link RIN or GEDCOM xref from an event etc or in this case by the example line Census Record This design has been produced especially to hold a lot of census information such as that available from the 1881 CDROM or the 2 1851 sample see Com puters in Genealogy Sep 1994 The census document can be described in a Source record as detailed above It can then be linked to a
82. are in Edit update mode If the target record type already has records then you will be asked to confirm that you have a back up of your database before proceeding A program failure during import could corrupt your database you have been warned PediTree saves your import settings in file default csa then imports your chosen CSV file into your database CSV Import is very fast and a completion message will say if any errors have been detected Clicking a Finish button will close the CSV Import display and update PediTree s indexes If any errors were detected then the Diagnostic display will open to show them Here is an example entry which identifies the affected record both in the data base and in the imported file CSV Import Error in Person RIN 18 group birth field date invalid month 05 MAG 1938 Data line 23 05 MAG 1938 Using CSV Import That concludes the description of the CSV import process which is much less complicated than that for GEDCOM files So what can you use it for Not for transferring lineage linked information for which GEDCOM is the appropriate choice As indicated above CSV import cannot handle links between records only unlinked records of a single record type It might be used to copy source records from one PediTree database to another using a suitable Table to export the records in CSV form More commonly it may be used to import information transcribed or downloaded from elsewhere Examples of which th
83. arent scripts by lt and gt symbols Several Marriages Where a husband or wife has more than one Marriage record which may include common law liaisons a set of tabs will appear below their name box as for Anne in the illustration Click on each one to reveal the appropriate partner and mar riage detail the children will also change If there are too many marriages then arrows will appear to select more tabs You may need to stretch the Family dis play to see these If a child is in the wrong sequence by birth or christening date and the database was based on Elton55 then the child number shown in the left column will have a question mark See Family Updating below for how to drag them to the cor rect sequence If the database was based on Elton Elton55 or Royal03 an asterisk may be shown before the name of any Person who is on Plan A Normally the first plan made will be an Ancestors plan for yourself or a descendant so that your ancestors are marked with an asterisk for ease of browsing around the family This will also cause red blood lines to replace blue lines in charts and trees for these people See chapter 4 section D for more information on line styles The family selection can be backtracked by clicking the down arrow in the top border Then you can retrace your steps forward with the up arrow The last eight families are memorised in a circle The Family display can be stretched horizontally when you drag the le
84. at RTF is an alternative for transfer to Microsoft Word Word Pad WordPerfect OpenOffice or other word processors It allows more textual style features to be recorded such as font names sizes and colours and uses the table column features of a word processor Further editing in your word processor is easy Some are better at importing this format than others WordPad is particu larly poor it does not support the title date page numbers and heading of the table just the columns and it will not wrap cells that have more than one line or wider than the cell If you choose to export RTF a message box will ask if you want to open the new RTF file in the word processor on your PC that is the default application for RTF files usually Word This application will open alongside PediTree but you must close it yourself when you have finished with that file If you rewrite the same filename later it must have been closed If the left edge column line is invisible when you preview the table in the word processor slightly increase the left margin in its printer setup or return to PediTree and increase the left margin in Layout by 1 1 To save right click on a Chart layout or print preview and choose Save image or Save image or text whichever is available In the second case a sub menu will give you a choice of Save image Save Tab delimited Save CSV or save RTF 2 A standard Save As dialogue will allow you to give a filename and se
85. ata Che base The list top left shows the islands found in descending order of ma the number of Person records The ER first entry is selected ticked so the pa ee lower list shows all the Person and Marriage records for that island I a have scrambled the names to protect Fodern the privacy of the owner of this data base This first island has the major ity 99 of the Person and Marriage records in this database which looks pretty good Islands 2 5 are small groups at least one of these contains children adopted by the main family the rest 22 total are single individuals By con trast the Islands display for a sample one name study database had 10 394 islands with only 6 of the records in the first largest island Samman NES POR DN Mae 19751 E _ te 2 You can select as many islands as you wish by clicking on the check boxes the lower list shows all the records in the selected islands You can move the divider between island list and record list by dragging the division with the mouse The display top right summarises the selection showing the number of islands and the total Person and Marriage records Three buttons provide the means to set All Invert or Clear all the check marks Invert means change checked to not checked and vice versa The Record List in the Islands display has few facilities clicking on an entry makes this the current Person or Marriage record which means you can
86. ated as necessary for successive periods See Occupation Group residence this group records a dwelling place of the person It is structured to hold a modern British address so that it can be used for addressing letters Ear lier versions of this group have phone in place of source and have a different order of the fields This group should be repeated for each separate residence The fields are shown in Residence group below notes this field has a variety of uses The most important use is for information about the content of other fields alternative names and spellings uncertainties and so on Unlike other fields notes are usually sentences and should therefore end with a full stop or other punctuation A separate notes field may be used for each subject in which case it is useful to start each with a subject heading e g 21 Chapter 3 Using the Databases Surname sometimes spelt Handcock or Forenames later McDon nell Longuet This also helps to identify the content of the notes on the edit display without having to expand them first But you can put all your notes in a single field if you prefer refnum for your own reference numbers if you use them Although PediTree allocates its own Record Identification Numbers RINs these are not permanent In particular if you export a GEDCOM file and then import it into another data base the RINs are likely to alter So you may prefer to allocate your own num bers wil
87. ave them on dosing D8 they occur to get help Don t worry if the cursor is still an hour glass just click it For example Some picture script errors were found the user has probably omitted or made a mistake in one or more picture scripts in a group record table report chart or tree Go to Options gt Picture scripts where the errors will be listed Each error will have the record name type of script name of report and column or area or script name lt number gt result resources reset in lt picture script gt an error has caused PediTree to reset its complex hierarchical stack of results from picture scripts and fetching fields from the database This should not occur but if frequent please inform Pedigree Software with a note of where it happened lt here gt lt word gt unrecognised type in lt name gt lt here gt lt word gt unrecognised field in lt name gt lt here gt lt word gt unrecognised picture script for lt name gt at the point in the program called lt here gt a lt word gt in a picture script has not been recognised as a Field Type or field name or picture script in a lt name gt of group or record You must correct it to make the picture script work Use one of the names listed in the definitions of the group or record lt here gt Too many dotted variables lt word word gt at the point in the program called lt here gt too many words more than seven have been joined together by full st
88. bility with Pedi gree for DOS or longer for PediTree only Choose the radio database type button ped 1Mb unless you need more than 1Mb of data in any of your types of record Click OK to create the new database See chapter 13 section D for information about maximum data sizes CSV Import Enter new name Cipedigree Roe i cs pedig elton55 ped royal03 ped information xi Keep ndex keys but sowdown import i DBtype ped 1Mb Jf OK C pdg 3Mb C pdh 4Mb C pdj 6Mb C pdm 9Mb X Cancel CSV stands for Comma Separated Values The term is used to describe a type of text file that can be used to transfer information to and from so called flat file databases In PediTree s case this means a single record type such as Source A commonly used form of flat file database is a spreadsheet which is often used for transcriptions of family history information such as church registers or monu mental inscriptions PediTree can export a Table as a CSV file Here is an example of a CSV file forenames surname Birth date Birth place Birth notes Ann Allen c 1725 Lydia Cambridge 26 Jul 1782 London year uncertain inferred from age in census 73 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions This has a heading and two records of five fields You will see from the heading and first record that the fields are separated by commas hence the name of this type of file The first record has two empty fields b
89. can be given a second lower case letter if it is a plan restricted by second plan to limit the descent and ascent to a particular family line This does not affect the treeref which only uses the first capital letter 34 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions Reserved Picture Script Names Certain named picture scripts are required for the correct operation of PediTree Those marked below must be present the other names are reserved for particu lar purposes All record types list used for showing record summary in a list detailBox used for the Detail Box display links for making two way links between records and the check DB function All groups no reserved name but one default picture script is required Person record type child for children on the family window parent for mother father and grandparents on the family window marked for showing the marked Person BORN for selecting the birth or christening field for use in age calcula tion See section E below for information about age calcula tions GEDCOM for GEDCOM version 5 5 export Marriage record type familyMar for marriage event detail in the family display GEDCOM for GEDCOM version 5 5 export Source record type GEDCOM for GEDCOM version 5 5 export Plan lists list used for showing plan summary in a list DetailBox used for detail in the lower area of a list lineUp for colour and width of lines above or left of node
90. can be viewed and tested If the memo window is not grey then you can edit the picture script See the illustration on the next page Changes will only be saved if you click Test or OK Save any changes and close the window by clicking OK close the window abandoning any changes by Cancel or pressing the Esc key Click on the Test button to test the picture script with the current record of the type that is currently selected Groups can be tested if there is a field of that group type in the currently selected Person record the first field of that type that is present is used If you want to test an event such as death but not birth filter a Person list with the script birth absent and christening absent and death present and click on one that you want to test before using Options gt Pictures scripts gt event 45 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions Other types Abrief Anormal detail ages AGED ABIRT ACHR ADEAT ABURI AWILL AMARR ADIv in place else date if notes betueen and then notes date in place notes end if date present then aged descendant age Jend citelsource picture scripts date place notes source DESCENDANT SPOUSE OtherTypes Test Help f N Conditions Cancel OK Click the Conditions button to select an operator such as lt gt for use in compari son of fields A Amend the script by clicking at any point in the text and editing it
91. coding system was developed so that you can find a sur name even though it may have been recorded under various spellings Every soundex code consists of a letter and three numbers such as W 252 hyphen shown here for clarity The letter is always the first letter of the sur name The numbers are assigned to the remaining letters of the surname accord ing to the soundex coding guide below Zeroes are added at the end if necessary to produce a four character code Additional letters are disregarded Examples 137 Chapter 13 Appendices Washington is coded W 252 W 2 for the S 5 for the N 2 for the G remain ing letters disregarded Lee is coded L 000 L 000 added Soundex Coding Guide Number Represents the Letters 1 B F P V 2 C G J K Q S X Z 3 D T 4 L 5 M N 6 R Disregard the letters A E I O U H W and Y Additional Soundex Coding Rules Names With Double Letters ifthe surname has any double letters they should be treated as one letter For example Gutierrez is coded G 362 G 3 for the T 6 for the first R second R ignored 2 for the Z Names with Letters Side by Side that have the Same Soundex Code Number if the surname has different letters side by side that have the same number in the soundex coding guide they should be treated as one letter Examples Pfister is coded as P 236 P F ignored 2 for the S 3 for the T 6 for the R Jackson is coded as J 250 J 2 for the C K ignored S igno
92. cord type Names Click the Record Types button then right click Change definition Double click a name and edit it Do not alter Person or Marriage Changing a record name will automatically be applied to all existing uses of the old name Changing the empty name will allow a new record type to be added after pressing F9 A new set of files will be created and default picture scripts for list and detailBox created for you to expand This has few side effects Click the new record again to add fields to it as below Changing Group type Names Click the Group Types button then right click Change definition Double click a name and edit it Changing a group name will automatically be applied to all existing uses of the old name Changing the empty name will allow a new group to be added after pressing F9 Save A single picture script called brief will be created This has few side effects Click the new group again to add fields to it as below Changing Field Names and Tags Click a record type name or group type name to show a list of field names field types and GEDCOM tags Right click to change definitions Changes to types of fields can only be done in a new database Changes to field names or GEDCOM tags can be made by double clicking on that cell Duplicate names and tags within the same type of record or group will produce an error message However one or more GEDCOM fields that you want to omit from exported files can have
93. ct all the Person records who were alive to the best of recorded knowl edge at whatever you have set as today but not now none assuming you have based your database on Elton55 age between 0 and 110 and death date absent and burial date absent or age between O and 110 and death date gt today or age between O and 110 and burial date gt today Marriage Lists Extract marriages where either spouse marries more than once husband marriages gt 1 or wife marriages gt 1 Source Lists Extract sources which mention someone who has RIN 154 individuals rin 154 Extract sources which mention someone who appears on tree B individuals treeref contains B D Tree Line style Changes Above each descendant or ancestor on a Tree there is a line up to a horizontal line for the parents generation Similarly there is a line down to the next genera tion It is possible to change the colour most effective with more varieties width and type of line style on each descendant by using some special picture scripts in the list of Plan picture scripts Databases based on Elton55 have these scripts already For example the PLANLineUp picture script could be if descendant parents marriage notes between and then line end if Treeref contains A then color Red width 2 end and the PLANLineDown picture script could be if treeMarriage marriage notes between and then 40 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions line
94. d Used to record documentary sources from which details of people and relation ships have been obtained Links established between source records and the related person and marriage records permit the authorities for the information to be traced Certain types of source record may refer to several people especially wills and family Bibles The information in the source record should allow the original document or reference to be traced if required type an abbreviation for the type of source A suggested list of the most com mon ones is BT Bishop s Transcripts census cert Certificate of birth marriage or death family knowledge GRO B General Register Office Index birth GRO M General Register Office Index marriage GRO D General Register Office Index death IGI International Genealogical Index LDS Church 23 Chapter 3 Using the Databases MI Monumental Inscription PR Parish Register Entry will date date of the event identified in the source title further identification of the source beyond that given in field type which is used in the cite picture in the Person Detail Box refnum reference number of the source text the text of the source if a copy of the document is not available individuals link to the Person record of the people named in this source This field is repeated as required place place of the event identified in the source county county of the event identified in the source cen
95. d all the types of Tables Reports Charts and Trees Each entry is preceded by a record type number 0 Person Mar riage 2 Source etc in order to sequence the list Click on a line to show the layout parameters that are already defined for that Table or Report a Layout dialogue for that Tables and Reports Dialog 10 reports 12 tables limit of 20 each 0 Person achart Ancestors 0 Person dchart Descendants 0 Person report Detailed 0 Person report Individual 0 Person report Pedigree 0 Person report PetsonPhoto 0 Person table Concise 0 Person table CrossReference 0 Person table Detailed 0 Person table IGI 0 Person table objects 0 Person table Simple 0 Person tree WideT all 1 Mariage report BothPhotos 1 Mariage report Detailed 1 Maniage report Family 1 Mariage table CrossReference 1 Mariage table Family 2 Source report Census 2 Source report Letter 2 Source report SourcePhoto 2 Source table censuses 2 Source table objects 2 Source table Sources 3 Census table CensusLine Table or Report will appear See chapters 10 and 11 for more information G Print Menu Functions Set up Paper Check that the printer that you want to use is shown as the default printer or choose a specific printer for use Note PediTree requires a Windows graphics printer a generic or text only printer will not work Check the orientation selected or change it portrait or landscape This will be shown as a Toolbar button of t
96. d by the tag Each record starts at level 0 with the crossreference preceding the tag Fields within the record are at level 1 group fields at level 2 Links GEDCOM calls them pointers are enclosed in The PediTree forenames and surname fields are combined into one field with the tag NAME The note in Christening has been wrapped above in the GEDCOM file it would be on one line The shorthand way to refer to this field by the GEDCOM tags would be INDI CHR NOTE level 0 tag level 1 tag level 2 tag In GEDCOM 4 you can have fields at level 3 with the tag CONT that simply continue the preceding level 2 field C GEDCOM version 5 5 This standard changed some of the 3 4 letter tags that identify each field being transferred Pedigree Software used some non standard tags anyway It also allows a deeper structure of the data with level numbers for source citations that are higher than Pedigree s database can store This brings difficulties with importing version 5 5 files but these are now addressed by PediTree s GED COM import facilities Export to other Family History Systems PediTree provides GEDCOM 5 5 export by using picture scripts named GED COM in the Person Marriage and Source records These in turn use other capital ised named scripts for Census records and other data groups The Elton55 database includes these scripts To convert your own database to Elton55 without problems your database must have been based on earli
97. dead end Another method to show now dead when a date has been set for today compat ible with Pedigree for DOS which works when BORN is before today is shown here if AGE gt 0 then if death date present and death date lt today or burial date present and burial date lt today or AGE gt 109 then now dead end end Age Then Using the AGE field in a picture script after another date field causes the display of the individual s age at that date This is usually in a picture script for a group such as event occupation or residence to show the age when an event took place The Elton55 database has a version of the detail picture for each of these groups which has been called ages These are the contents of these three picture scripts which use variable descendant to reference the Person whose age is to be calcu lated and either date from or to define what is meant by then ages event if notes between and then notes date in place 42 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions else date in place notes end if date present then aged descendant age Jend cite source ages occupation normal if from present then aged descendant age Jend cite source ages residence dwelling road locality town county postcode country C from woe to D if from present then aged descendant age Jend cite source In the case of marriages there are two main people to get ages for so it
98. dex and Person pages are always produced you choose what charts to provide The Person pages together provide a complete list of all the individuals included in order by surname forenames date of birth or christening and RIN Each page has fifty primary entries except the last page Each primary entry has the per son s full name followed by some personal details if the person is not alive In this context alive means born after 1910 and having no death or burial date The personal details are provided by a picture script HTMdates that you can change if you wish Following that are if any are present a a list of named charts in which this individual appears b names of father and mother c names of spouse s and a list of their joint children All these names are links that can be clicked to take one to the chart concerned or the primary entry on a Person page Each spouse s name is followed by marriage and or divorce details from new picture script HTMmarr The Index page the starting point has a list of all the Charts and all the Person pages The latter are identified by the first and last name on the page in question Again all these lists are clickable links that take you to the chosen page As mentioned there are two types of Chart available Ascendant and Descendant The Ascendant Chart looks like a conventional pedigree having boxes for indi viduals connected by lines The boxes are colour coded a
99. dis play Any field showing a in the left column must be expanded before it can be edited as in the second illustration Choice fields such as sex are marked by a c in the left column pressing Enter on a choice field will bring up a list of possible entries g Slindon Sussex 170ct1835 Slindon Sussex If you are in Edit mode then the fixed row and columns will be in your choice of colour not grey or button colour Fields can be edited as described below To save your changes press key F9 or use the pop up menu Although the record will be changed immediately other 60 Chapter 7 Editing Records open displays like lists charts etc may have to be made again before the changes appear Field Editing To add information or change any field move to that field If it has a to its left then click on that or press Enter on that line to expand the group or longtext first When editing a field if a flashing cursor is visible then the normal Windows editing rules apply You can use the normal short cut keys to copy cut and paste to from the Clipboard or the pop up menu for the same functions Press key F9 to save your changes either in a Text display or the Edit display From the Edit display key Ctrl S or F9 updates the database on disk Alterna tively key Esc will abandon your changes as will using the close button to close the Edit displays You may be asked to confirm that you wish to abandon your ch
100. display shows the record types defined in this database an empty entry at the end allows the addition of a new type Click on an entry in the list box to see the definition of that Record type Group type or Choice type For the first two the list then shows the field name the field type and the GEDCOM tag If the field type is a Record type link Group type or Choice type then clicking on it will change the list to the definition of the type in question For the Choice type the list shows only the choice words Right click in the list to get a pop up ay x menu with the following choices Marriage Field type GED Help Person j Mile Person wi Help on standard field names will be i i found in the on line help If this word Beeot pes children Person jehil g y h event marr is used in different contexts then event divo hypertext links to all contexts will be i adop shown too Your own field names paer wSn cannot be shown resulting in a mes Jongtext _note text tefn sage suggesting that you contact the ae vendor for an updated file Please don t contact Pedigree Software if this message appears in these circum stances Help on refnum Print portrait Change definition Print this table of definitions but you must first choose the portrait orientation yourself with Print Setup Change Definition enables you to alter the definitions in the
101. e List numbering during this PediTree session You can also erase lists from the context menu of the Choose List dialogue Note that if your first few indexes get out of date you can erase and then recreate them one at a time PediTree will choose the first empty position when you make a new list thus creating the new index in place of the old one Places List creates a new List display for the place names in all records This list is kept only for the current session of PediTree but can be saved from the List display context menu either as text or as a Places pick list see section E Place name Pick list below dates List creates a new List display for all dates in all records This list is kept only for the current session of PediTree but can be saved in text form from the List display context menu 83 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Find text search the whole database for given text and display a list of the entries found See section E Find Text below for more details find current record in index locates an index entry for the most recently selected current record and highlights it in a List display If no appropriate index is available PediTree will prompt you to create one The Toolbar button fee performs the same function Islands Web provides functions related to Relationship Islands including the generation of files for web sites See Relationship Islands and Web Output in section E following
102. e it to wherever you pre fer The file will be formatted according to the options that you selected in the chart dialogue with the indentation width and lines ON OFF If you open the resulting file in your word processor you should select all the text and choose a fixed space font such as Courier to avoid the vertical alignment of indentation lines going haywire Other line where there is an intermarriage say between cousins Descendants charts will show see other only against the second occurrence of the marriage to avoid repeating children This may not be a later line but could be a higher generation level Right click to get this option and then click it to cycle around each of the repeated marriages in Descendants charts or people in Ancestors charts Print chart print the chart See Printing below Edit Id bring up an Edit display for the row selected by the last left click Grid display bring up an Edit grid horizontal for the row selected by the last left click Print Detail Box print the contents shown below the chart outline in the Detail Box but not limited to its size on this screen It uses any print setup or font that you have set in Print menu using the heading and body font not the screen detail box Volumes will give statistics on the number of generations and the number of item lines in each generation draw Report the chart outline will be replaced by a Report See chapter 10 sec tion B f
103. e page width to restrict it depending on your font size The level of detail in the outline Chart to be displayed first can be selected by clicking a tab at the top Print preview detail can be chosen later If you want to change the level of detail in the outline after you have drawn it then close the dis play window and start again Click the OK button and a new Chart Outline View display will appear as on the next page The text displayed is determined by the brief normal or detailed Ach art picture scripts in the database You may have several charts displays open at the same time In these displays left and right arrow keys move generation levels Ctrl up or Ctrl down will move between descendant siblings or ancestor spouses along the vertical lines An open folder showing some family can be shut showing a shut briefcase to show more of the siblings in one family Double click on a line showing a shut briefcase will expand one level 109 Chapter 9 Charts and Printing t 4 generations of descendants of George VI P062 1895 1952 5j xj Back BRIEF NORMAL DETAILED 2 George VI P062 1895 1952 m to Queen Mother Elizabeth BOWES LYON P066 30Mar2002 and had 2 children 1 Queen Elizabeth II P067 1926 m 20Nov1947 in Westminster Abbey to Philip PO60son of M018 Andrew of Greer 1 Charles P088 14Nov1948 in Buckingham Palace m 29Jul1981 div 28Aug1996 to Lady Diana SPENCER P091 B 1 William
104. e prefixes 104 dialogue 103 display 106 hints persist 105 list paging 105 number of windows 105 tiled 105 today for now aged 103 Index Pedigree Software 10 Pedigree Users Group 10 PediTree advantages over Pedigree for DOS 147 databases supplied 137 differences from Pedigree for DOS 144 files 136 installation 8 limits 139 registration file 135 shortcomings 144 PedSpecs 48 Person record 12 using 20 pick file 62 pick list 62 place name 90 picture script 30 field count 32 Soundex 32 BORN 35 call 32 changing 102 child 35 components 31 conditional phrase 32 descendant 31 detailBox 35 editor 45 errors 47 familyMar 35 field names 31 GEDCOM 35 if statement 32 LineDown 40 LineUp 40 links 35 44 list 35 literal text 32 marked 35 parent 35 reserved names 35 separator 33 spaces 33 spouse 31 treemarriage 31 151 Index validate 63 variables 33 new line 32 picture script variable childnumber 34 descendant 34 father 34 generation 34 marriagenumber 34 mother 34 showrins 34 spouse 34 spouses 34 strip 34 today 33 treemarriage 34 treeref 34 place person 52 pick list 90 select pick list 106 printing 113 a window 72 Detail Box 51 57 print dialogue 113 printing dialogue 113 set up paper 100 tips 101 record insert 58 Record type Census 14 limits 140 Marriage 12 Person 12 Source 14 Records and RINs
105. e settings will be remembered between PediTree sessions The layout diagram will show the paper orientation and width and height used in the boxes The width may be greater than your setting because the program will use any spare characters to fill the width of the paper without increasing the number of strips For Tall Trees the position of the ancestors can be changed between left and right in the Layout dialogue The right setting is recommended for both Ancestor birth brief style and Descendants Trees so that they can be turned sideways with ancestor at the top and children left to right The Report design called Pedigree is also in the style of a birth brief For Wide Trees the layout diagram as illustrated will show all the tree using cyan to show boxes with numbers of lines of text less than the box height and fuchsia for those that are too big Each box contains a figure which is the number of lines in that box including sometimes a final blank new line Number of trun cated boxes are shown at the top left of the window Hold the left button down on any box to view the text and the differences from the defined box size show at the top The lines that would be lost are shown below lost gt The treeref generation strip of that box will be shown at the bottom The selected person becomes your current person and marriage so that you can use the main menus to display a new family or edit that selected RIN if you spot
106. e text PLAC date date DATE notes text NOTE title text TITL source Source link SOUR refnum text REFN text longtext TEXT Occupation Group Individuals Person link INDI Field Type Tag place text PLAC N censuses Census link CENS title text TIE county text CNTY place text PLAC i from date FROM marriages Marriage link MARR to date TO objects object OBJE org text ORG author text AUTH source Source link SOUR publisher text PUBL notes longtext NOTE Object Group changed changed CHAN Field Type Tag date date DATE title text TITL file text FILE format text FORM Changed Group Census Record Field Type Tag Field Type Tag date date DATE refnum text REFN time text TIME forenames text FORE notes text NOTE surname text SURN relationship text RELA Residence Group status text STAT Field Type Tag sex sex SEX age text AGE ae ae ae occupation text OCCU dwelli countyBorn text CNTY welling text DWEL b road text ROAD om exl PORN localit text LOCA country text CIRY y ex town text TOWN notes longtext NOTE county text co source Source link SOUR postcode text POST individual Person link INDI country text COUN source Source link SOUR 14 Chapter 2 Family History Databases Storage All the files comprising one database are stored in one folder which carries the name of the database with an extension of ped pdg pdh pdj or pdm So Elton55 is stored in folder Elton55 ped Within that folder each record type has its own set o
107. e than previewing the first page but less time than preview ing all pages All columns will be left justified ignoring design parameters for centring or right justification Columnar lines can be moved but do not affect the design column widths 119 Chapter 10 Tables and Reports The column titles headings will remain in position however far down the table that you browse You can lock left hand columns to prevent scrolling while you move to see right hand columns Left click select a cell in a normal column then right click and select lock column the columns to the left of the selected cell will be shaded and locked from scrolling just as the heading column title rows are In the illustration the left hand column has been so locked To return to the normal view right click and select View page n B Draw Report The production of a Report is started from a List display or Family display pop up menu not from the main Print menu Reports of an individual record can be printed as can Reports for all the records in a list alai x On entry the top of a Report is dis played Tabs across the top of the dis play show the names of Reports that can be printed for the type of record that you selected To go back to the original Family or List display click the tab for Back press the Esc key or right click and choose Back Peditree Royaki Person Individual report George Vi POE2 Mary of Teck
108. e to transfer data within PediTree or to other Windows applications Hot Links If you have set Options gt RINs shown and are using a suitable database design such as Elton55 then the RINs are shown preceded by a caret N e g P123 This format acts as a hot link to the record in question Position the I beam cursor just to the left of the caret press the left button move the cursor to the right over the RIN then release the button this process is called swiping The Detail Box will change to display the selected record A filename can appear in any text field Any such filename should start with an optional drive specifier followed by a backslash e g pedigree cottage bmp or c pedigree henryviii jpg Swiping such a filename in the Detail Box will cause files of type BMP or JPG will be displayed by PediTree They will be displayed at their actual size not scaled to fit any particular space Other file types will activate any associated application to display the file For example type RTF will normally open WordPad DOC files will invoke Word if installed WAV files will be played as a sound clip and so on Ensure that you only select the exact path filename when swiping Files not found will be noted in the Diagnostics log for investigation later 53 Chapter 6 List Display Chapter 6 List Display The List display is probably the most used facility to browse through or select an individual record of any type Any of
109. eck Facility GEDCOM Back up C Edit Menu Choices D List Menu Choices E List Menu Functions Choose List Dialogue Index Create Automatic Index Repair Create Descendants or Ancestors Plan Calculate Relationship List Dates List Places Place name Pick list Merging Place name Lists Find Text Relationship Islands Web Output F Print Menu Choices G Print Menu Functions Set up Paper Fonts H Options Menu Choices Timing of changes J Options Menu Functions Options Dialogue K Window Menu Choices L Help Menu Choices Diagnostic log example Chapter 9 Charts and Printing A Ancestors and Descendant Charts Preview and Print Charts B Printing Chapter 10 Tables and Reports A Draw Table Save as Text or Image Table Design Table Layout Changes Table Grid B Draw Report Report Design Chapter 11 Trees Layout Dialogue Chapter 12 GEDCOM A Introduction B Sample of aGEDCOM 4 File C GEDCOM version 5 5 Export to other Family History Systems D GEDCOM Export Export the Whole Database Export a List E GEDCOM Import Date Processing Actions Editing Actions 113 115 115 117 118 118 119 120 121 122 125 126 126 126 127 127 128 128 128 129 131 131 132 F GedUtils Utility Chapter 13 Appendices A Shortcut keys B Opening a Database from a Windows Shortcut C PediTree Registration File D Files used by PediTree Databases Supplied E Soundex Soundex Coding Guide PediTree s Use of Soundex F Limits in PediTree
110. ed If you are in Edit Update mode and have one or more islands selected then the Delete button will be enabled clicking it will start the deletion process You get two further opportunities to confirm that you really want to delete the selected records Click Yes to both and all the Person and Mar riage records in the selected islands will be deleted as will any links to them from other records An interesting use of this mass deletion facility came to light during evaluation of the Islands facility A user had mistakenly imported a GEDCOM file into the wrong database without making a back up first As the import had not been linked into existing records it appeared as a number of separate islands that could be identified and deleted This removed the offending extra Person and Marriage records making recovery from the mistake much easier Web Output It may be that you want to publish the results of your research on the World wide Web for others to see The starting point for this is to produce interlinked pages in the form of files written in the HTML language These pages must then be uploaded to a suitable Web site that is accessible to others Details of this latter 95 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions stage are beyond the scope of this manual but the former stage can be performed by PediTree PediTree produces four types of page Person pages Ascendant or pedigree charts Descendant charts and an Index page The In
111. ee Layout display with information to help you fit the tree onto a minimum number of sheets of paper Landsape Eines of 36 Time New Roman 5 Qoen Eizuber I POET At the top is shown a message containing the maximum strips and generations such as 1 row of 3 pages wide each page 5 generations of 7 strips wide Green dashed lines will criss cross the diagram to show where the page bounda ries would separate complete boxes based on the printer page size that you 122 Chapter 11 Trees selected The pages shown on the diagram do not have the same aspect ratio as the printed page You can change between portrait and landscape orientation or change font size or other layout parameters PediTree will then recalculate how the plan will fit your paper and re display the layout Tabs at the top show the possible picture script names with Normal selected ini tially Click on another tab if you want to use a different script to display this Tree You do not have to create a different plan The rectangle containing the text about each person on the tree defaults to a maxi mum size of 25 large characters like M or X wide by 8 high not including the lines and spaces around the box If the font used is proportionally spaced then there will be more than 25 characters in that space The width height and posi tion of text within these boxes may be changed from the Layout dialogue obtained from a pop up menu Thes
112. ely then PediTree creates a default _ Mssinsinctiee Ator 18 generations trom chavies Poss z for Reports and Charts Reselect the Lam J J top tab to restore a default heading for Tables and Trees However if you replace the title or heading with a SPACE BAR character or two then the line will be blank Click OK when satisfied or Cancel to abandon printing Once printing has started there is a risk of a program error when canceling a print Put your printer off line and let Windows detect this and give you the option to try again or can cel Wait until the Printing dialogue has disappeared before continuing with PediTree 114 Chapter 10 Tables and Reports Chapter 10 Tables and Reports PediTree can produce two types of tabulated output Tables and Reports Tables have multiple columns and display one or more records with each record taking as much vertical space as it needs Reports have a fixed layout on the page for one record at a time In both cases you start by having a copy drawn on the screen you can then view it and or modify it before printing The title body contents and background are able to use different fonts chosen from the main menu Print gt Fonts Style dialogue Background lines and text may be best in a different colour from the body contents A Draw Table The production of a Table is started from a List display pop up menu not from the main Print menu On entry the top of a Table is displayed T
113. er Pedigree Software definitions called Families Census or Elton The GEDCOM 5 5 format has to be modified to satisfy other popular family his tory programs like Family Tree Maker FTW and Personal Ancestral File PediTree makes the following changes when exporting this version Prefixes in dates for occupations and residences are removed by PediTree The from and to dates are exported in a single DATE BET tag without any prefixes such as before between and after 127 Chapter 12 GEDCOM Quarter dates Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 are translated by PediTree into ABT FEB ABT MAY ABT AUG ABT NOV Links to RINs that are not in the export especially if it is a partial export are not written to the file This relies on the exact formatting of links such as 2 SOUR S S001 FTW and other programs may truncate text from fields like title refnum and education where it is too long Dual dates may be rejected in months after March or years after 1752 D GEDCOM Export Export the Whole Database For GEDCOM export of the whole database choose File gt Save As GEDCOM from the main menu If your database is based on Elton55 then you will be able to choose the GEDCOM version to use GEDCOM 4 Pedigree for export to another Pedigree Software database GEDCOM 5 5 for export to other Family History Systems 1 A standard Save As dialogue allows you to select the folder and give a filename You can choose to have PediTree remember the folde
114. er actions with a right click are similar to those for field types above except that Move row is not available Chapter 3 Using the Databases Chapter 3 Using the Databases A User Databases Most users databases will be based on one of the supplied designs with or with out modification Many users will start using the installed copy of Elton55 and produce new databases from this design with appropriate names What should be included in a single database The simple answer is all the people and relationships that may comprise a single interrelated group such as all those uncovered in studying the ancestry of one person Reasons for using more than one database on a single study include separating documented facts from sus pected information having a copy of the main database for experimenting with changes to definitions Records Pictures Table and Reports trial imports of information from other sources such as the IGI too much information for a sin gle database more than about 10 000 records or 1 megabyte of data in the stand ard database format 30 000 records and 3 9 megabytes in other formats Unrelated applications will always merit their own individual databases B Using the Elton55 Design The following sections describe the use of the fields in each record type and group of the Elton55 application design which is the most common basis for user s databases Certain fields are marked with an asterisk these fields
115. er field present in birth such as place the text would not be shown unless the field birth date was present Foreign Characters Foreign characters with accent symbols above or below were accepted in the DOS version of Pedigree but will be shown differently in PediTree Windows ANSI fonts On the whole they will be treated just like any other alphabetic char acters but as yet there is no provision for consistent displays with DOS IBM PC characters nor with GEDCOM files This applies equally to symbols or other ASCII values above 128 or below 32 146 Chapter 13 Appendices K Advantages over Pedigree for DOS Established users of Pedigree for DOS have asked what benefits PediTree has over the tried and trusted Pedigree Most of the good Pedigree features are incor porated but here are some of the extra facilities Printing 1 Printing using Windows only printers 2 Small fonts to get trees tables and charts on fewer pages Odd even page printing 3 Choice of fonts and colours with background lines or blood lines in a different colour 4 Printing of photographs incorporated into reports and trees Picture Scripts 1 Testing of individual scripts and diagnostics to show where they are used in the resulting text 2 Childnumber shown in Detail Boxes and reports 3 Ages calculated at a point in time or at an individual s events Day of the week format option Record and File Linking 1 Hypertext jumping to linked
116. es 44 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions G Hot Links Links formed from one record to another can be selected by swiping selected text with the mouse in order to change the Detail Box to show that record This is particularly useful for showing Sources for each event The Detail Box picture script must cause the RIN to be shown immediately after a caret symbol This character used as a hot link marker can be altered in the Options dialogue but this would involve you in altering all picture scripts to correspond so is not recommended Xcaneei ox _ Databases based on Elton55 have these scripts already H Picture Script Editor After selecting Options gt Picture scripts from the main menu you will see group choice and record names listed at the left of an editing window They are fol lowed by all the Tables Reports Charts and Tree picture scripts Plan picture scripts are prefixed PLAN in Person picture scripts The last record group and choice will show empty This in readiness for adding a new one see chapter 2 section C Select a record or group not a choice and you will see a list of the picture script names as tabs along the top of the window If there are too many click on the top right arrows to shift them along To change to a different field type click on Other types as a tab or as a button All Tables Reports Charts and Tree picture scripts are checked for syntax errors and
117. es to allow PediTree to try to correct the index es Error messages Generally this type of message box is shown when a xj serious error has occurred which may result in loss of recent data that you have entered in this session with f ant File not found PediTree If you have any other Windows applications which are open close them to save their results before returning to PediTree Please note whether the failure was in PediView exe PediTree exe or in Ped32 DLL or DB32 DLL If no heading then it is likely to be a DLL If you can repeat the fault do not click the error box before clicking the main help menu item Help gt diagnostics and save the log to a file for emailing to Pedigree Software You may continue cautiously but first if you can finish all other open applica tions You will have to click a blank part of the window in order to clear the hour glass cursor Then click a line to cause a new Detail box display so that PediTree can clear its result resources Maximum file size exceeded one of the Person Marriage DAT files has exceeded the size limit 1Mb limit for ped databases or a higher limit for another type See Diagnostics for the starting sizes in this session You need to move to a larger size format so proceed as follows 142 Chapter 13 Appendices j Back up this database then reopen it and use File gt GEDCOM Export gt GED COM 4 N Use File gt New DB and choose a bigger si
118. event group DIVO The first column for each record type is adopted Person link ADOP the field name which you see in the div logical choice DIV Edit display and use elsewhere as will es a is ce notes ongtex be described The second column is the pefaum text REFN field type The third column is the objects object group OBJE GEDCOM tag for each field GED sources Source link SOUR changed changed group CHAN 12 Chapter 2 Family History Databases COM is the subject of chapter 12 The possible field types are Text of up to 255 characters Can be used as a sort key Dates with day month and year preceded by qualifiers before circa after for example bef 3 Jul 2004 Quarterly dates are also accepted e g Q2 1971 used for GRO index entries Selection from a user defined list of words for example sex M or F logical Y or N Can be used as a sort key A user defined group of fields of any type except group See text date Can be used as a sort key longtext Text up to 4090 characters choice group examples below link A link to another record type These fields hold the RIN of the linked record but this is usually displayed as details from that record In the Person record the first two fields are links to Marriage records the third a choice called sex Birth christening death and burial are all the event group Person Marriage Person of fields other groups used a
119. f text This is in contrast to the Filtered search facility in lists that operates on specified fields only You can either search the records in an existing list index filtered list Ancestors plan or Descendants plan or you can search all records of all types 1 To search the records in an existing list choose List gt Choose from the main menu or click the Choose List button on the speed bar to bring up the List dia logue Right click on the required list and choose Find text A Find dialogue will appear Go to step 3 2 To search all records of all types Fma ajx choose List gt Find text from the main n menu A Find dialogue will appear as shown here Cancel I Match case 3 Enter the text to be found in the Find pa what box You may enter up to 60 characters The case of the text is ignored that is pedigree will match pedi gree Pedigree or PeDiGrEE unless you tick the Match case box To include a newline character in the text to be found use the character 91 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions 4 Click Find Next to perform the alaiz search If you have used the charac sndgrave gt ter you will be asked to confirm that you mean this as a newline character not literally A new Find list display will appear with the results of the search This list shows up to 30 char James V STEWART of Scotland P107 also at A4 6 eas sey each ae vrs the text son of M039 James IV STE
120. f three files The storage mechanism is designed to be efficient for sparse data that is typical of historic information only fields containing informa tion take space The standard database format can have up to one megabyte of information for each record type Where this is insufficient then formats that allow up to 3 4 6 or 9 megabytes are available However the increased maxi mum sizes are at the expense of more space for small records in the case of the two largest sizes the database can no longer be read by PediTree s predecessor Pedigree for DOS Whichever size is chosen the maximum number of records for each type remains 32 767 B Database Designs As mentioned above PediTree can be used to modify the database design by altering the record types and their fields The information above was for one design called Elton55 The other database supplied Royal03 is different in several ways Users of Pedigree for DOS may have databases based on other designs called Families and Census It is possible to use PediTree databases for other purposes entirely membership records job progress information and country walks for example are known uses The next section has some information about changing the record types and fields Here is a summary of the principal Pedigree Software database designs Design Person amp Source Record Census Record Repostry Record Marriage Record Families Yes Yes Census Yes Yes Yes Royal03 Yes
121. ferences Diagram return to the Layout display Save image save this page of the Tree as an image in JPG format Authorship rectangle row 1 page 1 only places a rectangle with your per sonal details at the point at which you right clicked The text is taken from your PediTree registration file and is presented to you first in an editing window for you to make any required changes Double click in this window to place the rec tangle when the Layout diagram will re appear To remove the rectangle tempo rarily select another picture script tab then return to this one 124 Chapter 11 Trees Layout Dialogue e S Ene Ee This is illustrated opposite for a Tall Tree a Wide Tree omits the Ancestor Posn box Right spoure sexem and treemariage wites d spouse sex m and treemarnage wher i spouse sex m and treemarriage wites Ancestor Porn Justy in box Left and right margins can be changed N im eae using a spin control at the extreme left Sin CBee and right of this dialogue Margins are allocated in spacing of body size char acters The top margin above the title is allocated in lines of blank heading size font Page width is displayed but has little meaning in PediTree which calculates it from the font size and page width instead Click OK to save changes or Cancel to return to the display without making changes Tree Warning Message Waring xl 8x25 layout too big can t calculate gens st
122. ft or right hand edge Drag the bottom edge to change the size of the Detail Box To view more than nine children you can resize the Detail Box Hover the mouse over the horizontal line below the family until it changes to double bars then drag it down to reveal more than nine children without reducing the font size If the Detail Box disappears completely then select a parent by a click close the Family display then click on the show family button on the Toolbar to open a new one B Family Pop up menu This will be shown by a right click on any members of the family or their mar riages There are more entries in this menu when in Edit mode Some of the entries carry the identity of the record involved e g P1 M3 indicated by the shorthand Id below Note the illustrations overleaf show pop up menus for both View left and Edit modes right Only one such menu can appear at a time 50 Chapter 5 Family Display and Detail Box Mark Jd person only will mark the Captain Mark PHILLIPS P129 Person chosen ready for placing them in an Eoy empty family position A marked Person 14N0v1973 div 1992 M051 iil record will be shown on the Toolbar using the Person marked picture script Note a left or right click on the marked MeT person entry on the Toolbar will Grid M51 make that record the current one A detailBox Print left click will also allow you to hide diaw Report this entry if you wish
123. gle with your personal details at the point at which you right clicked The text is taken from your PediTree registration file and is presented to you first in an editing window for you to make any required changes Double click in this window to place the rectangle To remove the rec tangle temporarily select another Table design then return to this one Orientate brings up a Print Setup dialogue so that you can change the paper ori entation or other settings 116 Chapter 10 Tables and Reports Save as Text or Image The Print Preview display for any type of Chart Tree Report or Table can be saved to a file as a graphic image in JPEG format filetype jpg The display is saved at screen resolution typically 72 dpi so may be disappointing if printed Tables can alternatively be saved in various text formats you have a choice of Tab delimited CSV Comma Separated Values or RTF Tab delimited and CSV are similar the difference being how the text in the columns of the Table are sep arated either by a tab character Tab delimited or by a comma Comma Sepa rated Values The former is suitable for import into a Word Processor the latter into a spread sheet The first row in each case will contain the titles of the columns in the Table Any new line characters within a column will terminate the output from that column Because a column entry is limited to 255 characters any longtext fields may be cut short Rich Text Form
124. he appropriate shape portrait EM or landscape E Change the paper size source or options for your printer Printer name and paper printable size will be shown in the caption for the Style dialogue 100 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Tips If you get a message like printer index out of range then probably no printer is selected Use the Setup Paper menu item to select your printer or create a default printer in Windows For printing banner trees on Epson 740 etc when setting paper size in Print Setup Properties user specified click Options and enter width as say 2100 10 x 210mm A4 sheets and similarly the length n x 297 or whatever size you think that the tree will take Some Epson Printers SC460 740 760 have been found not to work with PediTree until an up to date printer driver has been downloaded from the lt www Epson com gt web site You can manually achieve double sided printing for Charts and Tables by select ing odds or evens only in the Printing dialogue that includes title and heading changes More information on this in chapter 9 section B Fonts The dialogue caption shows printer and paper size printable area used You may have to scroll to see all the font options The defaults will only be used Style with hp deskjet 990c series paper 8 00 x 1L16 Font used in aloj x the first time that you install PediTree _ iscsrundiines fri ae a Any changes made
125. he width of the page A right click in the outline view will bring up a menu with the following options first left click on a row of interest to select a person or marriage for Mark Jd Edit Id or Grid display Id is the RIN of the selected row Mark Zd person leaf only mark the chosen person for subsequent placing into another position their details will be displayed on the Toolbar eXpand chart will reopen any closed branches and will create new ones for one more generation level each time that you use it Check with the Volumes option to see if no more generations can be added For big charts you will be asked about every 400 lines to confirm you want to continue There will be a pause if you cancel as it draws a big chart of hundreds of lines 110 Chapter 9 Charts and Printing There is a limit of 16 000 leaves but the width is insufficient for more than 40 generations Double click on any final leaves with a plus sign if you just want to expand individual leaves Save document save the full text not just the on screen outline line of the chart to a file A Save File dialogue will allow you to choose the folder and filename The filename will be suffixed TXT unless you choose IBMPC charac ters with a suffix of PC8 The default is to save the outline as a txt file with the lines as characters instead of IBM box characters that need the MS Line Draw font The initial folder is that containing the database chang
126. here may be some likely relatives mentioned in wills or marriage documents for whom you have no information about relationships to the rest of the family Pending a research breakthrough they will remain unat tached in your records so will be in separate island s Any adopted children are not blood relations not related by marriage to members of the family so will also be separate islands More formally PediTree uses Person and Marriage records to build families an island is all those Person records linked together by Marriage records In this context Marriage records don t necessarily imply a legal marriage merely the linkage between one or two parents and their children Using Islands How can the Islands facility help you For a start it will show you how many islands exist in your database If you a researching a single family then you might hope to have only one island the actual number might be a surprise This analysis might help to uncover some forgotten records that need further work 92 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions On the other hand a database of a one name study is likely to have many islands as it is very unlikely that all the collected individuals can be linked into a single family Let s look at an example In PediTree you can generate an Islands display eee from your database by choosing List gt ae Boe Islands Web from the main menu marj 829 uain Here is the result for a family d
127. hey happened List Places This will either search the whole database from the main menu List gt Places list or just an existing list from Choose List dialogue pop up menu and create a new List display of all the fields that are in a Group and have the GEDCOM PLAC tag This is what you might see Bower CAI marriage place of M049 Robert BRUCE P0154 amp Catherine CORMACK Bower birth place of Matthew BRUCE P1566 Bower christening place of Ronald BRUCE P0156 Brent occupation place of William Edgar KENNEDY Edgar P0224 At present it only shows place fields that occur inside a group It does not show residence place names because they do not have a PLAC tag although you could change that temporarily if you wished A right click pops up a menu which includes Save to file Sort and Place picklist It is intended to help you standardise your place names by sorting them to iden tify oddities Each line shows the place the field in which it was found with the record identified using the first picture script for that record type 89 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions After sorting pressing a letter key will jump to the first place name with that ini tial letter A click on an entry makes that record current for clicking Family or the Find in List icon It also shows the full record in the Detail Box This list is temporary and will not appear in the Choose List dialogue nor is it saved between sessions
128. iage for a new Family display clos ing old ones F8 from the Family display will find that Person or Marriage in an index creating one if necessary F10 will toggle to select the first main menu File then left right up down can select a menu item In some dialogues like Choose No of Generations select RIN and the page number on Print Preview there is a spin button with up down triangles that respond to up down cursor Dialogues generally press the letter for a button if underlined Open a database up down page up down Enter to select 134 Chapter 13 Appendices Lists up down page up down home end Print previews for Trees Charts Tables Reports Detail Box Home or End go to left or right margin Page up down Ctrl Home or Ctrl End goes to extreme top or bottom B Opening a Database axl from a Windows Shortcut General Shotcut compatbity Each Windows shortcut to PediTree on Desktop or in the Start menu can ame oa be arranged to open a database auto a HA tically Target type Application Target location PEDIGREE 1 Use Windows Explorer to find the Target CAPEDIGREE PEDITREE EXE Royal03 ped PediTree program file press the right mouse button and drag to the tar PEDIGREE is Desktop Release the button and Shortcut key None choose Shortcut here Run Normal window M Left click or press F2 and name 2 Comment the short cut with your database name Find Target Change Icon
129. ice types PediTree Pedigree have a limit of 17 different choice words like M F for sex for each of the 8 choice types 35 picture scripts for each record type or group 12 letters in picture script name 5 characters in a separator in Pedigree but up to 12 in PediTree 6 edit panels in a database 60 characters in a print title heading 20 Tables total for all record types 30 characters in column heading 15 columns 20 Reports total for all record types 20 Lists of records or tree plan positions 26 temporarily in PediTree G Messages Information messages xj These are either simple informatory boxes A elias ace as ee ase or slight errors that you should be aware of 4 and possibly take some action Here is an wm e example Other possible messages are Bad date 29 2 1823 in Person 1234 Pedigree allowed the entry of 29th February in non leap years This is the most likely cause of this error where the date is shown in this Windows default form 140 Chapter 13 Appendices No family known for PIN lt number gt A Descendants chart or plan cannot be made unless this Person has a partner No parents known for PIN lt number gt An Ancestors plan or chart cannot be made unless this Person s parents are recorded Warning messages These are generally not so serious as to EX xj abandon your session Press F1 when g Some picture soript errors were found Use Options Alt 0 Pictures to correct them and s
130. ilable Choose a record type as a basis of the new index the dialogue will change to show a summary of the new index called temporarily ViewIndex the sort keys and the fields of the chosen record type PUPLPELEREQEEEOOEE If you click OK now a list of type fill will be created rather than an index To create an index you must specify one or more sort keys that will determine the order of the records in the new index 85 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions 1 The field Key 1 is highlighted Click on a field in the record to complete the key details If that field is a link to another record its fields will be shown If that field is a Group Type then the fields in that Group event occupation or resi dence will be shown Continue clicking until you have chosen an elementary field with a data type such as date text or RIN 2 PediTree will put that key into the left hand index keys cell and move down to the next empty cell The right hand data definitions grid will change back to the record type for the index To add another key repeat the above process 3 If you want to go back and add another field to an existing key then click on that key In this case PediTree will sort on the combined key with a space between the two if they are present If the first field is not present then the sec ond field will start that key position just as if it is the first field This is useful for example to sort
131. imply cascaded and overlapping Back up on Closing If this box is ticked then any open database that has been edited will be backed up when it is closed by exporting a GEDCOM file If this box is not checked or if no editing has been performed the back up will not be offered Note GEDCOM backs up the data not the scripts and definitions This is no substitute for a complete back up of the whole database folder Use Last GEDCOM Folder If this option is checked then PediTree will remember the last folder selected in the Save GEDCOM dialogue see chapter 12 section D or Open File dialogue chapter 12 section E and use it as the default for future GEDCOM Export and Import operations If unchecked then the Save and Open dialogues use the cur rent PediTree folder as the default Always Edit You can change the starting mode for databases between View and Edit mode by checking or not in this box 105 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions K Window Menu Choices Options affecting the display can be set here and some are remembered pare between PediTree sessions The Tile choices on this menu are Win dow H elp Close windows Cascade arrange all open displays in Y Footer shown cascaded layout useful if you can t see Y toolBar shown all of a display because it gets too Arrange Icons large or just to tidy up PediTree was Minimize All designed in a screen mode of 800x600 Picklist select
132. important changes immedi ately if you wish File Edit List Print Options Open Close DB Save lists defns Quit DB Save As GEDCOM Export Web Pages Import gt check DB check Files linked check Dates New DB Print window b DOS Exit 1 C pedigree FAMEX PED 4 C pedigree Varge pdg Quit DB close this database without saving lists and script changes only data changes are saved Use this rarely if you want to abandon any changes to scripts or lists you have made Lists could become wrong but can be fixed by the next use of choose list Save As GEDCOM save a GEDCOM file of the whole database See chapter 12 for details of this function To export only part of the database use the List display pop up menu or the Choose List dialogue pop up menu item to export GEDCOM from one list only Export Web Pages create files for a web site See Web Output in section E below for more information Import gt GEDCOM read a GEDCOM file and store the information See chap ter 12 for more information Import gt CSV read a CSV file and store the information See CSV Import in section B below check DB check the integrity of the database correcting errors if you are in Edit mode See Check Database in section B below 71 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions check Files linked examine each field of type text or longtext including field objectfile for a file na
133. ing Pedigree for DOS Images can be placed in one or more of the rectangular areas when you design the Report When pressing F5 in Pedigree to specify the picture script it should be ImageA objects file the caret symbol is above key 6 This will allow a path and filename to be followed to load a file as the image to be displayed and printed The image will be scaled to fit the box and positioned at the left or top of the box depending on which dimension has to be reduced You may find that a squarish box is the best compromise unless you have standardised the aspect ratio of your images The ratio of character width to line height is approximately 3 4 but this can vary with fonts and PediTree may adjust the height to fit the paper size 121 Chapter 11 Trees Chapter 11 Trees gee PediTree provides two forms of drop line Tree Wide Trees and Tall Trees Wide Trees have the generations run ning from top to bottom of the page Tall Trees have the generations across the page which makes for a more Dosta ner tr compact but less conventional layout Before you can draw and print either type of Tree you must make an y ompR Ancestors plan or Descendants plan See Create Descendants and Ancestors Plan in chapter 8 section E for details Once the appropriate plan is displayed a as a list then you can choose Wide UNE E Temne Tree or Tall Tree from the pop up menu in the List display This produces a Tr
134. ion perhaps sound recordings It can also contain associated source information from which the family tree has been constructed such as details of certificates parish register entries and census returns There is more about PediTree s databases in chapter 2 A About this Manual This is a reference manual about the features and operation of PediTree which assumes you have installed and become familiar with the basic operation of the program There is a separate Getting Started Guide that describes how to install it and provides two hands on tutorials to introduce you to the program and the way it works Having reached some familiarity with PediTree then this manual provides infor mation in depth about its operation and facilities It starts off with a chapter about Pedigree Software s Family History Databases with particular reference to the design that is supplied as a basis for your own information storage Next come suggestions about how you can use this design to store your own information PediTree s unique flexibility comes from the technique it uses to display informa tion from its database either on the screen or in printed form This flexibility is provided by its own script language used both in displaying the information and in selecting record s to be displayed This script language is described in a chap ter on Picture Scripts and Expressions You will know that PediTree uses a number of different displays or window
135. ipts you to inspect and change the Record Group and Choice definitions for the open database See chapter 2 section C for how this is done v RINs shown Hot link char Truncation code 16 Dates brings up the Options dialogue for several Settings date and other settings Picture scripts the picture scripts defined in this database can be viewed changed and tested See chapter 4 section K for more information 102 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions RINs shown toggle between showing RINs and not showing them marked by a tick when showing This setting is remembered in the open database PediTree picture script output will always prefix RINs by the first letter of the record type name such as P for Person and M for Marriage Whether this is UPPER or lower case will depend on how you originally defined those record types You may change the picture scripts in PediTree to show your own refer ence numbers if showRINs Y but these cannot be used as hot links Hot link char the character used as a hot link marker can be altered using the Options Dialogue although the caret symbol is recommended to avoid ambi guity This setting is remembered by PediTree between sessions not in each data base Truncation code this character used as an indication that more text exists can be altered using the Options Dialogue This setting is remembered in the open database and restored when that database is used ag
136. is author is aware are monumental inscriptions transcribed into a spreadsheet and BMD records downloaded from the Web For example you can download records of Births Marriages or Deaths from the website FreeBMD lt http freebmd rootsweb com gt in a form that can be copied and pasted into a 75 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions spreadsheet After a little manipulation the records can be saved as a CSV file and imported as source records into PediTree Check Database Use this function regularly as it proves that you have no badly corrupt records It is strongly recommended that you also use Export GEDCOM regularly as this proves every field of every record Check database will check all records and report any links missing between par ents Marriage records and children or husbands and wives and their Marriages It will also report in Diagnostics two way links that do not have a corresponding link back to the record These can be specified simply in a special picture called links see chapter 4 section F for more details In Edit mode it will repair two way links The errors are shown in the Help diagnostics log which can be saved and printed outside PediTree An exceptional report is PediTree v3 285 DB2002 04 08 04 15 26 55 C PEDIGREE roe2 ped last saved by 2 6N at 325 updates 176 Person records in file size 19 kb 67 Marriage records in file size 8 kb 6 Source records in file size 8 kb 18 Census record
137. isplayed top right and then clicking in the page number box Right click to pop up a menu with the following choices Back Esc to return to the list or family display Print all print all pages of the Table Print page n for the current page n e g Print page 1 You may be warned to select Set up if the width is greater than the current printer page paper width See chapter 9 section B for the printing procedure When you choose to print all pages a list box will temporarily show the item count of the first record on each page which is useful to see how many are left on the final page The final page is then shown on the screen You can cancel this print if you just want a page count or specify the pages required You can also find the last page by clicking the page number to a high value Layout brings up a Layout dialogue to change the Table layout See Table Design below Save image or text the whole Table can be saved in various formats See Save as Text or Image below View page m view the next page e g View page 2 table Grid This is a view of the whole list shown as a grid with columns but no horizontal ruling As the whole list has to be drawn it will take more time than previewing the first page but less time than previewing all pages See Table Grid below Create new create a new blank Table Within this right click and choose Lay out to fill in the details Authorship rectangle places a rectan
138. iting Records Adding new information or amending existing information in records is carried out using several different displays The two basic editing displays are the Edit display and the Record grid Both of these can be produced from either the List display double click on an entry or use the pop up menu the Family display pop up menu or the main menu Edit gt Edit record A subsidiary display for edit ing in specific circumstances is the Text display An alternative method of making a number of changes is to use Replace Text This is an extension of the Find Text facility that operates on either a list or on the whole database It is described in section F below A Edit Display The Edit display has the field names in aio the second column the information in i as each field in the third column and flag foenames Aion characters in the first column The top hemme froe row shows the record type and RIN You can scroll vertically if necessary to see all the fields preg eren 170ct1835 Slindon Sussex 14May1910 Brighton Sussex Where the field contents is too long for the display the text is truncated Group fields are shown in summary form indicated by a in the left column occupation 2 Draper Worthing Sussex 1862 Click on the to expand the group and show its component fields Fields of the longtext type such as notes also have a sign to their left click on this to display or edit the text in a Text
139. k for Marriage records which are created in the Family display As you cannot display an empty list the first record must be created using the main menu Edit gt Edit record gt Insert Delete Zd Edit mode only in indexes filled lists and plans will delete the high lighted record in the list and in the database Any links between Person and Mar riages records such as parents and children and marriages and husband and wife will be unlinked at the other end From a plan list a Person record will be deleted C Filtered Searches A filter is a test that is applied to every record in a list All the records that pass the test are put in a new list Starting from an index or otherwise unfiltered list you can apply up to four filters in sequence These will be numbered Filter 1 Filter 2 Filter 4 Once you have a list that has all four filters the Filtered search option in the pop up menu is disabled A filter comprises a conditional expression that is typed into a Script Edit box After typing the script click on Test to verify your typing or else click OK If you click Cancel or OK without entering a valid script for the filter or if no records are matched then either no list will be created or one marked erased in the Choose List dialogue The new list will be displayed with a heading showing how many records were found by selecting records from the old list As the old list is still there you can
140. known RIN and press Enter to position the List display to that person or marriage Press Esc to return to the existing display Find record type for indexes and sorted lists only not plans places or dates find a record by sort key You will see the names of the key fields to be typed Type some letters and the list will move to that position Separate fields with a comma and the program will insert a space before the comma foem ea When you have found the record you want click on the list entry to hide the key finder box and show the Detail Box again Press the Esc key to return to the list without completing a find t List Indexed with 8 Person records BEE Index using surname forenames birth date ROE P008 Alan ROE PO01 bapt 170ctl835 1 4May1910 Bernard ROE P003 17Dec1 865 Charles Henry ROE aes 1869 Frances ROE PO Susan SHARP P002 At 1840 27May1875 Tessa TILMAN P006 End of List Indexed with 8 Person records N To repeat a similar find before clicking on an entry or pressing Esc select the key text by swiping the mouse over the first part then press Ctrl C to copy it to the Clipboard On the next find paste it into the key using Ctrl V If the first key is a date then you must type the 4 digit year first then the month and day numbers if required You will be prompted YYYYMMDD to overtype You can add the suffix to the yyyymmdd format where means exact lt before gt
141. l outline details of the person s will use the date field for when probate was granted See Event Group below sources this is a link to a documentary source for information about this person other than that about events birth etc or will occupation or residence For example you may only know this person exists from someone else s Will adoptedBy a link to the marriage of the adopting parents censuses link to a Census record s related to this person objects object Group used for images or sounds about this Person AGE do not use leave empty This field is an anchor for age calculations changed changed group with date and time automatically updated whenever the record is updated by PediTree You can add your own notes if you wish If more than one occurrence only the first is updated automatically Marriage Record A Marriage record is created automatically by PediTree when people are placed in both the father and mother locations on the main screen with or without children also being present This does not necessarily indicate that a formal mar riage has taken place husband link to a Person record maintained from the Family display There may be no husband or one wife link to Person maintained from the Family display There may be no wife or one children links to Person maintained from the Family display There may be no children or up to 20 marriage divorce the remarks ab
142. l Ist place2 Ist and note which folder that each is in if it is not just c pedigree If you already have a c pedigree plac lst which you want to include then make sure that it is listed as one of the files that you want to merge separated by signs 90 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions In this example we will include a database in C ken as well as two in C pedigree Plac lst files are not automatically kept up to date with your changes to place names so every so often you may want to recreate them from your main data bases If you include the old c pedigree plac st in your merge list then all the old entries will be kept even if some places may have disappeared or been amended Use PediTree to recreate plac st from one database before merging several files if you don t want this to happen So the example command is all one line PVsort c ken plac 1st c pedigree place2 1st c pedigree plac 1st c pedigree plac 1st d It doesn t matter if this extends over one line on the screen as here on the page only press Enter at the end This will merge and sort the first three files and remove duplicate lines before rewriting file pedigree plac lst If you want to experiment further with PVsort just type Pvsort which will give some help screens The supplied file Pvsort doc contains full doc umentation of this utility Find Text This function allows you to search all fields for a given piece o
143. lan picture script names by PLAN As the overall size of name must not exceed 15 these names must not exceed 11 letters Editing Mode PediTree has to be put into Edit mode F9 or Ctrl S replace F10 to save This saves all changes since the last save not just those in one record Esc to Undo also undoes all changes since the last committed save Sorting a List Note that Pedigree does not create a new list whereas PediTree does Pedigree sorts the one selected Differences from Pedigree Trees Multiple marriages are shown with double lines joining each repeated descendant to highlight the subsequent marriages and families In Ancestor trees where a spouse is not known PediTree plans will omit the spouse line completely Pedigree plans will show the same spouse repeated PediTree will use proportionally spaced fonts to fit more characters in a line than the nominally specified width PediTree will try to use the full page width height by equally spacing out boxes within the paper size instead of leaving space at the edge of the page The colour and width of lines above and below people can be changed with Tree Line Style changes In Tall Trees each row strip of boxes must be kept on one page and will not be split over pages like Pedigree These lines go halfway across boxes and will not continue if there are no more descendants or ancestors 145 Chapter 13 Appendices Picture Script Features The main changes will reject
144. le errors Otherwise they only show up in the Detail Box when affected records are displayed In the Check Date process many of the checks duplicate those implemented in the validate picture scripts but go further in testing against minimum and maxi mum ages As the new tests do not depend upon the validate scripts they work with any database The intention of the checking process is to alert the user to possible inconsisten cies oddities or errors in the dates present It is all too easy to mistype a year or misread an old document so any check that might reveal this is potentially useful In initial tests the year 1899 was found entered as 1989 making the person con 77 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions cerned exceptionally old at death Children or marriages in the wrong order also show up it may be that their dates came to hand only after their names were entered when the fact that the order was then shown to be wrong went unnoticed Like Check database Check Dates is on the File menu Choosing this brings iMesiruinage wears fro up a dialogue where some parameters of the checking process are displayed for review and change if desired see the illustration opposite The set tings in this dialogue are remembered Optional Reports by PediTree for all databases Parent s minimum age at birth years 73 Mother s maximum age at birth years 50 Minimum age at marriage years 16 Birth Christening missing
145. lect a folder Click Save to finish 117 Chapter 10 Tables and Reports Table Design You can design a new Table add change or delete a column change its right centre or default left justification Use right justification for dates and perhaps names to align identical surnames The width of the Table is based on the width of your paper depending on whether you have selected landscape or portrait orientation The columns are spaced out proportionately on the column widths specified in the Layout dia logue As a rough guide if you have more than 100 characters across use land scape mode or set the font size to 8 or less in the Style dialogue obtained from the main menu by Printer gt Fonts Each table column has a space either side and one inter column space with a final column space making the total width total width of columns 3 number of columns 1 This total is shown at the top of the Layout grid The left and right margin are added to this before dividing up the width of your por trait or landscape paper into column widths The proportionally spaced text is then fitted into this width and the number of lines of word wrapping used to find out if this cell will fit before hitting the bottom of the page Column sizes can be changed in the Layout dialogue or in the Table view using the left mouse button to drag the top of a column sideways and releasing it It only directly affects the column in which you use the poin
146. left blank then no copyright notice will be displayed Fed Penson Load Setings Save Setiege al Genere Qut Heb You must choose an Output Folder to receive the new Web output The output comprises a number of files that you will not wish to confuse with existing ones Moreover all existing files of types htm html or css are removed before new ones are created So it is important to choose an existing Web output folder or a new empty one You cannot type a name into this entry but must click on pem zjx the Browse button This will display a folder tree in which you can navigate to your chosen destination You can choose an existing folder then click OK If this folder contains any files other than of those types listed above you will receive a warning message If the contents contains files of types Choose the Output Folder B Pedigree Data 1 Ann Cossar H Bywater Lees EY Cedric Hoptroff C3 clay ped DB230CT2005 pdj Denys ControlGed exe or dat then this is regarded as HG dLewin an error and after an appropriate mes Gad hide2 ped sage you will be asked to choose again ee Bey pam A Pedigree Install X To create a new empty folder select a al parent folder then click the New Folder button This will create a new folder Eee es 7 called guess what New Folder Navi gate to this click twice slowly to make the name editable and change it to your chosen name Finally click OK to select
147. letter Start new group a new occurrence of the group is created representation e g occupation Start new record this record type tag is assigned to a given PediTree record type representation e g Census Append data to existing field the information from this tag is added to an existing occurrence of the field starting on a new line and prefixed by the given text If there is yet no field of this name then one is created representation e g notes type V Unknown tag tag not known so action indeterminate representation UNKNOWN 131 Chapter 12 GEDCOM Name tag the GEDCOM tag NAME holds both forenames and surname representation forenames surname V Some of these Actions will be automatically assigned when the GEDCOM file is first read and the tags are compared to those in the current database You can edit the Action s as mentioned in step 6 above to remove Unknown entries and or change the way the file is imported Editing Actions 1 Click on the Edit Action button on a record type tab to bring up the Edit Action dialogue This example cor responds to the line with the dotted rectangle on the previous page which has two Actions List of Actions Action Mode occupation Ignore occupation title V Copy Value to new field Copy text to new field Start new group Append Value to existing field 2 The individual Actions are shown in a Target Field the List of Actions on the left Other
148. ll be unused in each record So it is sensible to use the small est chunk size that will accommodate your information Two special files in each database Control GED the data dictionary of records groups and fields and their rela tionship structure with picture scripts report tables chart and tree layouts Note this file does not contain any family information so should not be imported into a PediTree database by GEDCOM import Lists DAT The RINs for all current lists in the database Databases Supplied Elton55 is an example database to exploit PediTree features in a way that should not upset Pedigree for DOS It can be the basis for your own databases Elton was an older version that lacks the option to export GEDCOM 5 5 Elton55 exe is an application for recreating Elton55 Royal03 is an example database for the tutorial in the Getting Started Guide v2 which contains an example of the royal family It does not contain Source and Census records and so should not be used for making a New DB for your own family Royal03 exe is an application for recreating Royal03 E Soundex These notes are copied from http www archives gov research_room genealogy census soundex html Soundex is a coded surname last name index based on the way a surname sounds rather than the way it is spelled Surnames that sound the same but are spelled differently like SMITH and SMYTH have the same code and are filed together The soundex
149. may make your database unusable Be sure that you have a back up copy before proceeding On confirmation the import will proceed with progress display as before On completion the Summary tab will re appear with a completion message and a Finish button in place of the Add button 9 Clicking the Finish button will close the Import display Either List display s of indexes or a Choose List dialogue will appear If the completion message mentioned errors then the diagnostics display will appear to show them Date Processing The GEDCOM tag DATE may be followed by a date range such as BET 1960 and 1977 which isn t acceptable in PediTree date type fields Such input is converted to two tags FROM and TO with one date in each So you may see all three tags DATE FROM and TO in the record type tab Actions Actions describe how a particular tag will be treated on import Each tag has 1 3 Actions associated with it multiple Actions are shown separated by semicolons e g occupation title V Here is a list of possible Actions with their correspond ing representation in the record type tabs Ignore this tag is ignored during import representation Ignore Copy data to new field a new occurrence of the field is created and the infor mation with this tag is copied into it representation e g notes V Copy text to new field a new occurrence of the field is created and the given text is copied into it representation e g type
150. me like path filename type and verify that this named file is present See Check Files Linked in section B below Check Dates check vital dates in the database See Check Dates in section B below New DB make a new database from the one that is presently open copying its definitions See New Database in section B below Print window this has two sub menu options both use the printer dialogue to allow you to change orientation as it will try to fit the screen or window to your page 1 Print the whole of the screen This is what is copied to the clipboard if you press the Print Screen key 2 Print the active Window This is what is copied to the clipboard if you pressed the Print Screen key whilst holding Alt down If you want to copy and or save the screen or the window press Print Screen as above and paste it into a picture image editor or other program DOS temporarily leave PediTree to use the MS DOS command prompt Type EXIT to return to PediTree Exit identical to the effect of closing the application window with the X button in the top right corner See GEDCOM back up in section B below Toolbar but ton ffl At the bottom of the File menu the last five different databases that you have opened will be listed for you to choose to open again B File Menu Functions Here is more detail of some of the functions reached from the File menu Open a Database E Use the Open File Toolbar button g c vaio x Help
151. mes text FORE they are prefixed by the first letter of surname text SURN the record type that is P Person prefix text PREF M Marriage S Source C Census pire ae mA nickname ex and so on This prefix makes the RIN tite e TITL unique for use as a hot link in the Detail pirth event group BIRT Box display see chapter 5 for details christening event group CHR If two record types start with the same a a aaa RS uria event group letter then the second one will be low sd cati ext EDUC er case the first upper case The hot occupation occupation group OCCU link is case sensitive so will continue residence residence group RESI to work in this circumstance More than otes longtext NOTE two record types starting with the same romun texi REFN 3 will event group WILL letter will confuse PediTree sources Source link SOUR x adoptedBy Marriage link ADOP Fields censuses Census link CENS Within each record there are a number objects object group OBJE of named fields to hold elements of the AGE date AGE information to be stored These fields changed changed group CHAN are defined by the record type but can be changed by the user if required Marriage Record Field Type Ta Here are the fields of the Person and yP 9 Marriage record types in the supplied husband Person link HUSB Elton55 database wife Person link WIFE i children Person link CHIL marriage event group MARR Field Types _ divorce
152. move their List displays to compare them All lists with their keys and filter scripts can be seen by using Options gt Picture scripts To help you write a filter you can use the Fields button which provides a list of fields for the current record type or group Select one of these by clicking and it will be inserted into your filter or show you another sub field The helpful hint will remember how far you have got At the bottom of every list of fields there are one or more pseudo fields that show information derived from real data which can be used in your filter scripts See chapter 4 sections B amp C for more on the conditional expressions and useful filter scripts 58 Chapter 6 List Display Filter Examples Here are a few examples of filter scripts surname like Smith This would find all people with surnames which sound like Smith e g Smythe Smyth forenames like John and surname like Smith not surname contains Jones birth date after 1700 or death date after 1700 sources present and not sources individuals RIN contains RIN treeref contains A or treeref contains b You can save a filter for alteration next time by copying it to the Windows clip board Then you could even paste it into any text field in a spare record for use in another PediTree session when you can update the database Otherwise just copy it from a previous list by clicking Other types 59 Chapter 7 Editing Records Chapter 7 Ed
153. nd are links to the Per son page entries Hovering the cursor over a box will display the full name and additional details the first line from the entry under them on the Person Page if they are not alive The Descendant Charts have similar elements but have a very different layout This facility requires three special picture scripts two have been mentioned They are Person HTMdates Person HTMname Marriage HTMmarr which are only needed if you want to use the Web Output facility which will complain and refuse to work if they are not present It also uses the standard picture script Person name The process starts from the Islands display reached from the main menu by File gt Export Web Pages or List gt Islands Web Here you can choose what part s of your database to include before clicking on the Web Output button This brings up the Web Output dialogue 96 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Web Output Dialogue The Web Output Dialogue provides lt a AGE Title for Web Pages facilities to set the details of the output Entries here set the title for Web pages publisher s name for copyright and the output folder for the Web output Title for Web Pages this title appears at the top of every web page Simply type in your choice of title Publisher s Name for Copyright If you want to have a copyright notice at the bottom of every web page then type an appropriate name here If this entry is
154. nd printing Trees Note in an Ancestors plan if the number of generations selected is higher than the number of generations actually discovered then the earliest ancestor generation will be have a number greater than 1 e g 2 3 or whatever This will waste space at the start of any tree drawn It is best to look at the actual number of generations shown in the Choose List dialogue erase that plan and recreate it with that number of gen erations so that the earliest ancestor is 1 Note plans are not updated when relationships change You must erase a plan and recreate it after any change to parents children or spouses Calculate Relationship This function calculates the relationship between two individuals It finds the common ancestor s then displays them and the number of generations to each individual To use the function first mark one P60 Philip P060 individual using the pop up menu aa either in the Family display or the List 2 Family of 029 Philip POGO amp Elizabeth II 4PO67 display Next select the second indi vidual by a click in either display Finally choose List gt Relationship from i Samengege s Aestes sexe coo T Sota Pont the main menu After confirming your generations rom curen ts ues Emme uicee7 choice the result s will be displayed as shown here List Dates This will either search the whole database from the main menu List gt Dates list or just an existing list from Choose List
155. o a question from the manuals or on line help or if you encounter a fault in the program then please contact the author and supplier Murray Kennedy Have available details of the version of the program from Help gt Version the database version from Options gt Definitions and the version of Windows you are using Email MurrayKennedy btinternet com Telephone 01386 556649 Fax none Post Pedigree Software The Granary Ryelands Wyre Piddle PERSHORE WR10 2JG UK Pedigree Software s web site provides news of latest versions and upgrades http www pedigree software co uk Pedigree Users Group This flourishing users group provides a quarterly newsletter an e mail discus sion list and has many members who are pleased to help users in their locality More information is available from their web site lt www pugweb org uk gt or the Membership Secretary 19 Lombardy Close Leverstock Green Hemel Hemp stead HP2 4NG England email lt membership pugweb org uk gt 10 Chapter 2 Family History Databases Chapter 2 Family History Databases A Introduction PediTree stores your family history information in a database You can have a number of different databases but only one at a time can be used by PediTree Two databases are supplied with PediTree each of a different design Royal03 used for a tutorial in the Getting Started Guide Elton55as a basis for your own databases Elton55 has some information stored
156. o the Web Output Dialogue their RIN will be preloaded in the Find Person box when that button is clicked The Save Settings and Load Settings buttons enable you to save all your settings on this dialogue for future use then recall them when needed The settings are save in files with the extension WOP Click the Generate button to produce the new Web output a progress indicator will appear while this is being done and your settings are automatically saved to file default wop On completion this button is disabled Changing one of the chart settings or simply double clicking on a chart entry then clicking OK will re enable the Generate button for another try Viewing the Web Pages If the relevant check box is ticked then on completion of generation the Web output will be displayed in your default Web browser If subsequently you wish to display the output then a double click on the file index htm in the Output Folder should have the same effect Pages generated by PediTree are standards compliant and have been tested in a number of popular browsers However due to their construction and size the Charts do not print well if they extend past one sheet of paper The colours and some aspects of the pages produced are determined by the style sheet PediTree css that is copied into the Output folder It is possible to make alterations to the colour scheme by changing this copy of the style sheet but you will need an understanding of casc
157. of a picture script are field names variables literal text newline character picture script call conditional phrase if statement separator statement The result of the picture script is the concatenation of the results of all the compo nents in the order given with spaces between them according to rules to be stated later Each of these components will now be discussed in turn Field names a field name is replaced by the contents of that field If a field is repeated then the result is a list of the contents of all the fields separated by the separator characters see below Every picture script operates in a known context of either a group such as event a record type such as Person a plan Tree or Chart For a group or record type any of the field names of that group or record type can appear on their own So for example in a Person context forenames surname notes are all valid field names Where the field name is a group then the group fields can be named after a dot thus birth date Similarly link fields that point to other record types can be used to name fields in the other record marriages wife surname This can go as far as you want so parents husband parents husband gets the grandfather of the present Per son if any There is a limit of seven names connected by dots For plans Trees and Charts it is necessary to use the variables descendant for the Person fields and treemarriage or spouse for the Ma
158. of the Person record ex sex choice SEX type and the first three fields of the forenames text FORE Marriage record type as shown oppo surname text SURN site These must be in their normal positions and have the usual types and Marriage Record tags as you will see in chapter 12 the Field Type Tag FORE and SURN tags aren t actually husband Person link HUSB used wife Person link WIFE children Person link CHIL Before attempting any change to the OH definitions of an existing database make sure that you have an up to date back up copy Even when working on an empty database take regular back ups if you are making changes in several stages Always check your changes by closing and reopening this database Then close PediTree and use Pedigree for DOS to open this database and close it Pedigree has lower limits which could be upset If Pedigree fails return to make corrections in PediTree Definitions List Dialogue The version of the database that you are using is displayed at the top left of this dialogue This information is Beson stored in the Person PLANdetailBox picture script in the form DB name If you change the data definitions then edit this picture script to give your database a new version name The three buttons in the centre allow you to choose Record types Group types or Choice types for the list dis 16 Chapter 2 Family History Databases play on the right On entry this list
159. off the same text will always appear in the footer bar if that is visible You can change the hint background in the colour menu item below You can change the time in seconds that these hints persist in the Options dialogue reached from for example the List paging option in this menu 106 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Colours This option leads to four sub menu items For each you are presented with a palette from which to choose your colour then click OK to confirm hint background the mouse following hint box Male change the colour in the family display of boxes for husband and grandfathers Female change the colour in the family display of boxes for wife and grand mothers These two changes only take effect after choosing another Person in the Fam ily display Edit Headings the background colour of headings in Edit displays when in Update Edit mode These headings remain grey when in View mode Other screen colours are taken from your Windows system settings which you can change if you wish To change the colour of the text in Reports Tables Charts Trees and Detail Boxes use the Style dialogue produced by Print gt Fonts The following two options bring up the Options dialogue from which they can be set See the comments about these in the previous section List Paging Number of Windows At the bottom of this menu is a list of currently open display windows The number keys can select ano
160. ogue 132 Chapter 12 GEDCOM will then allow you to choose a folder and filename for your actions Actions are saved with the file type GIA standing for GEDCOM Import Actions A number of files of Actions for particular imports are provided with PediTree See PediTree help for details Note when you click the Add button the current Actions are always saved in file default gia overwriting any previous set This file may be useful if you report any problems with GEDCOM import to Pedigree Software F GedUtils Utility GedUtils v7 provides a number of functions concerned with GEDCOM files especially the conversion of version 5 5 files for import into PediTree GedUtils uses a GEDCOM Conversion Parameter GCP file to convert the old tags and level structure into one that is suitable for a Pedigree Software database These GCP files can be tailored to suit import to Families Census Elton55 or any other Pedigree Software database The Fam55 database supplied with GedUtils with the G55toPed GCP file will enable import of virtually all tags in a file conform ing to the GEDCOM version 5 5 standard that is used by most major Genealogi cal Systems Extracts from that Fam55 database could be imported to other database designs albeit with some data loss until more definitions are added One of GedUtils s other functions is the analysis of the number and types of tags in a GEDCOM file in order to assess whether any new definitions need to
161. on so you can see his dates and those of his four children as here Accord ing to this he was only four when Margaret was born Arthur P118 and Henry VIII P112 also appear in the list above Research shows that Henry VII s birth date is wrong it should be 1457 not 1485 79 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Family of M040 Henry VII P110 amp Ehzabeth P1110 So right click on Henry VII P110 iF choose Edit P110 and correct the birth date Note that the Date Check Results list hasn t changed you will need to re generate it for this to hap pen tery VIL P10 Elizabeth of York P111 Henry Vil P110 also at A3 7 b 1485 Before doing that fix the other suspi cious birth ages in the results list click f amur Piia jase 1502 m to Catherine P11 3 2 he leny Vl P112 1491 1547 aged 18 m 15 SIS CH therine P113 on P142 Mother s age then press PS fa1533 1593s anne BOLEYN PIIA again This time the mother is Wil fned 9 m1540 1o Anne PIST oged 29 rt aged 49 m 1540 to Catherine HOWARD P116 helmina of Baden P145 her birth 1S Ppea 52m 1543 1o Catherine ta to Jamon W STEWART of Scotland P108 shown as 1756 when it should be into Charles BRANDON pias ene 128 3 harles toC 1509 aged 24 1788 affecting her two children in the Date Check Results list As before bring up the Edit display for her and correct the birth date Now it is worth re running the
162. on fixed spacing in the columns view Family for the buttons showing the people in the Family View but not marriage date amp place can be emboldened or changed in size This may be use ful if they do not appear bold by default on your system Terminal font is neces sary to show left and right triangles but other fonts will force the display of lt and gt after reopening this database This font is also used for picture script editing default Terminal 9 Edit text for the Text display used to enter edit long text fields default System 10 The font size can be entered as a number lower than the list shown in the dialogue box if it is a TrueType font Font settings have no effect on saved files of text for charts or lists Text Spacing can be used to increase the spacing between lines in Tables Charts and Trees as displayed on the screen and in printed output Zero 0 is the default which may cause the descenders on letters like g p and y to be lost Numbers greater than zero give additional spacing the addition is the standard spacing divided by the number So 1 gives 1 1 double line spacing 2 gives 1 1 2 1 5 line spacing 5 gives 1 1 5 1 2 line spacing and so on H Options Menu Choices The Options menu has the following items other AM Window Help options that affect the display are on the Window Definitions menu Dates Definitions brings up a List dialogue that allows Picture scr
163. onth should be January February or March to represent the pre 1752 calen dar which did not start a New Year until March 25th Only the later year will be shown in the yyyymmdd date format The year can be omitted if both day and month are entered for an anniversary date Quarter dates used in UK General Record Office entries can be entered as for example q1 1877 Q2 1877 bef Q3 1877 q4 1877 Object File Field The field file in the objects group is treated specially Press Ctrl P on this field or right click and choose Pick filename Ctrl P to browse for an image file of type BMP or JPG or a sound file with a standard Windows Open File dialogue After choosing your file double click on it or click the Open button The chosen file will then be displayed or played A confirmation dialogue will ask for Yes or No for storing this path and filename into the field If you prefer to type the entry in this field yourself then note that it must be an absolute pathname meaning that it must start with a backslash optionally pre ceded by a drive specifier for example pedigree cottage bmp or c pedigree henryviii jpg Place Fields Any field having the GEDCOM tag PLAC usually called place will have an additional entry in the pop up menu produced by a right click Pick from list Ctrl P brings up a dis play of place names which will con tain those defined earlier by yourself see chapter 8 section E Place Name Pick list
164. onventional initial capital letters e g Smith not SMITH The current database designs display such surnames in CAPITALS however they are entered If the surname begins with Mc or Mac then enter it exactly as it is to be displayed e g MCCRACKEN For someone who changes their surname use that by which they are most commonly known and put other ver sions in a Note If unknown e g wife of an ancestor leave blank except when it is desired to enter a second marriage and nothing is known of the first when must be entered in the first Any Titles or suffixes junior or 3rd go elsewhere perhaps in postfix prefix Dr Sir Lord Lt Col Rev and so on go here postfix RN BSc MP here Can also be used for a qualifier such as of Cleves nickname for familiar names by which the person was known perhaps a fore name other than the first a diminutive etc title either for parts of the names such as junior or for hereditary titles like Prince of wales But Chairman of Boots or Vicar of Bray are Occupations See Occupation group education for schools University etc entered as text e g Oxford 1919 23 This field may be repeated one school etc per field birth christening otherwise called baptism of a child death burial each containing the Event group fields date place notes and source See Event Group later in this chapter occupation is recorded in some detail in this group field which may be repe
165. ops to make a hierarchical field name within a group and record and linked records List Dialogue No records so no list to display yet an index has been created ready to receive records List Dialogue Delete list lt number gt this is just for you to confirm which list is to be deleted All displays using this list will be closed List Dialogue Incomplete key lt number gt this key number must not end with a group or record link and a full stop Choose an elementary field 141 Chapter 13 Appendices Invalid in findRIN in trying to find a record PediTree thinks that the record is not in the proper internal format Try exporting the database in Pedigree into a GEDCOM file to see if there is a corrupted record If so then send a copy of the database to Pedigree Software with a note of which record gave this message If sending by e mail ask first if the message will be more than 200Kb List Dialogue Have you closed the DOS window in large databases the exter nal file sort uses a DOS window to run pvsort com Please close it so that PediTree can continue Cannot insert a line this is likely to be caused if you have Diagnostics ON for too long Report it to Pedigree Software When opening or closing a database a message box may report inconsistent index sizes in a list compared with the number of records of that type such as Index 4 97 should be 99 Index 5 97 should be 99 Do you want this fixed now Answer Y for y
166. or further details Preview and Print Charts At the top of the Chart outline view display the picture script choices are shown as tabs Click one of them to preview the full detail that would be printed The 111 Chapter 9 Charts and Printing resulting print preview shows the same tabs so you can easily preview differing levels of detail The horizontal lines against each descendant and spouse can be coloured like tree ME Back BRIEF ANORMAL DETAILED 5 Aug 2004 PediTree Royal03 brief chart 4 generations of descendants of George VI P062 1895 1952 George VI P062 1895 1952 m Queen Mother Elizabeth BOWES LYON P066 30Mar2002 Queen Elizabeth II P067 1926 m 20Nov1947 in Westminster Abbey Philip P060 Charles P088 14Nov1948 m 29Jul1981 div 28Augl996 Lady Diana SPENCER P091 1961 31Aug1997 William P092 21Jun1982 Prince Harry P151 15Sep1984 Anne P089 1950 m 1 of 2 14Nov1973 div 1992 Captain Mark PHILLIPS P129 1948 Peter PHILLIPS P130 15Nov1977 Zara PHILLIPS P131 15May1981 m 2 of 2 12Decl992 Tim LAURENCE P154 01Mar1955 Prince Andrew P152 19Feb1960 m 23Jul1986 div 30May1996 Sarah FERGUSON P153 150ct1959 Edward P09 Margaret P068 1930 09F eb2002 m div 1978 Anthony ARMSTRONG JONES P132 David ARMSTRONG JONES P133 1961 Lady Sarah ARMSTRONG JONES P134 1964 lines The PLAN LineDown picture script is used for each descendant as de
167. ot already covered in the discussion on dis plays Aspects of printed output are covered in the next three chapters about Ancestor and Descendants Charts Reports Tables and Trees The matter of exchanging Family History information with others is the concern of the GEDCOM standard which gets its own chapter Finally a number of miscellaneous matters are covered in appendices B Reading this Manual To help you read these instructions some typographic conventions are used throughout to distinguish elements in the text Names of windows menu choices etc Things you type and the text of picture scripts Chapter 1 Introduction The common operation of working through cascading menus in Windows is depicted as for example Start gt Programs gt Pedigree gt PediTree C Getting Help As is usual with a Windows program comprehensive on line help is available From the main Help menu By clicking on Help buttons in some places By pressing the F1 key In the Edit display by right clicking on a field name The last three produce help relevant to the context in which they are used The on line help has the usual Contents list and Index to assist you to find information about matters of interest The on line help is likely to be more up to date than the printed manuals Pop up hints appear as the mouse pointer is moved over the various display ele ments Contacting Pedigree Software If you are unable to find the answer t
168. ot repair plans nor filled lists It reports a message like Index 1 should be 1152 it shows it as 1130 say Do you want this fixed now Normally answering Yes will fix the index Create Descendants or Ancestors Plan These options will create a Plan list from the current Person as selected by a click in a List display or a Family display A Choose Number of Generations dia mear TST Ea logue will be displayed Enter or spin l the number of generations Note that yseuno agastass eons the spin box increase and decrease OK E X Cancel arrow boxes maybe wrongly blank but Hep will still work FamilyDescent All descendants E The box titled FamilyDescent will show initially All descendants If you leave this option then all descendants in a Descendants plan or all ances tors in an Ancestors plan will be expanded with all the children until your choice of generations has been reached or in the case of intermarriage that family mar riage has already been included If you click the arrow to the right of All descendents then you can choose to restrict the expansion of the plan to those family marriages that are on an existing plan The identifying letter of the selected plan in lower case will be added to the new plan letter so that you know that this plan was restricted in this way Note if you subsequently open this database in Pedigree for DOS this second letter will be lost so you should m
169. out date place notes and source entries for Birth etc above also apply here see Event Group below Enclosing the notes in parenthe 22 Chapter 3 Using the Databases ses e g Ccommon law or liaison makes them appear in printed reports and alters m to in Trees and Reports adopted a link to an adopted child To distinguish such children from true descendants they should not be added to the list of children on the family dis play but linked to this field of their adoptive parents marriage The reverse link is from the AdopteaBy field in their Person record This field can be repeated as needed for multiple adopted children div divorced this is a logical field Y or N that is present only for compatibil ity with Personal Ancestral File Use the divorce field instead wifeSurname the previous surname of the wife where this is not her birth sur name for example where a widow re marries using the surname from her previ ous marriage notes notes about a family or marriage that are not specific to the wedding or divorce refnum your own reference number for this record objects object group for images or sounds about this family such as wedding photos sources link to documentary source not specific to the wedding or divorce changed changed group with date and time automatically updated whenever the record is updated by PediTree You can add your own notes if you wish Source Recor
170. position The last five database names used are stored here PVsort COM a version of RPsort by Robert Pirko which can be used for merging place pick lists PVsort DOC Documentation for PVsort Optional files PLAC LST This is a place pick list which can be created from your own places by using List gt Place picklist CSA CSV Import Action files saved by the user GIA GEDCOM Import Action files supplied with PediTree and or saved by the user WOP Web Output Parameter files saved by the user Each database has its own folder with filetype PED PDG PDH PDJ PDM These folders hold three files for each type of record Those for the Person record type are Person DAT the data stored in a compact form Person IND an index by RIN into Person DAT Person SPC a list of spaces free to place new or amended records Space in the DAT file is allocated in chunks The size of these chunks deter mines the maximum file size and is set by the database filetype as follows Filetype Chunk size Maximum file size DAT PED 16 bytes 1Mb PDG 48 bytes 3Mb PDH 64 bytes 4Mb PDJ 96 bytes 6Mb Not accessible to PDM 144 bytes 9Mb Pedigree for DOS 136 Chapter 13 Appendices Each field takes two bytes plus what you type except dates that always take three bytes Empty fields take no space at all Each record takes one or more chunks enough to accommodate all the information On average therefore half a chunk of space wi
171. pudifoxl JYEGO P0002 included Alternatively click the A OT Delete Chart button for the expected D 5 Diaow DIEKL P0011 result The Find Person button enables a search in the People list by RIN or name To find a particular individual in hat Settings Ascendant Chart OK the People list click on Find Person Descendant Chart There are two ways to search for an R S individual by RIN by surname and Q nolimit 5 forename Delete Chart To search by RIN enter the required RIN and press Enter or double click press Esc to abandon the find If a valid Person RIN is entered then the individual will be highlighted in the People box and the current RIN will be set to this person An incorrect RIN will produce the message No such Person To search by Name enter the start of the surname letter by letter as far as neces sary to find the required name For each letter keyed the People list will scroll to match If you should key incorrectly you can use the Backspace key to make a correction When you have found the required surname then key a comma fol lowed by the start of the forenames as far as needed Press Enter or Esc to finish searching 98 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions This facility can be useful when selecting the subject for new Charts You can locate the individual in PediTree s Index display or Family display A click there makes the individual current On return t
172. r database which will verify that there is no corruption of the records This option can be set from the main menu Options gt Settings by default it is off no export but the setting is remembered by PediTree between sessions If it is on and records have been altered then the export will occur whenever the data base is closed namely a on using File gt Close b on opening another database which implies closing the present one c on leaving the program 81 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions You will be presented with a Save File dialogue to permit you to choose folder and filename See chapter 12 section D GEDCOM Export for the subsequent steps C Edit Menu Choices The Edit menu choices are detailed below Some appear only when PediTree is in Edit List Print Options Window Help mode v Update E dit mode Eamily Update Edit mode switches between Edit record Person View mode and Edit mode when you are E AEA allowed to update the database When Edit Replace text mode is selected there is a tick against this _ ee menu entry and the colour of the fixed row t and column on an Edit or Grid display will p change to make it obvious which mode that ad you are using The toolbar button provides the same function Z in View mode in Edit mode PediTree opens each database in View mode meaning that data records cannot be changed although lists and picture scripts can be Use Options gt
173. r 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions records This would provide two new Island _ _ INDI _ FAM 1stINDI separate databases for future work if 41 1977 557 1 that is what was wanted O2 878 272 229 Another possible use of GEDCOM es export of selected islands would be to Os 5 1 1557 provide an enquirer with the relevant 2 1 1910 section of a one name study To do o7 1 1 1581 this you might need to find the island 08 1 1 1672 that includes a particular individual ms 1 1 2637 The Find Person button brings up a box for entry of the RIN of a person in the database By default it is filled with the RIN of the current Person record so you can use PediTree s normal techniques to locate the person of interest and click on them before using the Find Person but ton Once the RIN is entered then a double click or a press of the Enter key will locate the relevant island and highlight it in the Island display You have then only to make sure this island is the only one checked and the selection will include the required Person record with all its relatives If the highlighted island is checked then the Person record found will be highlighted in the Record List Deleting Islands The final option mentioned previously is to delete the records in selected island s This powerful option could potentially damage your database if used by accident so you are strongly advised to have a current back up before using it You have been warn
174. r used for this dialogue rather than default to that containing your database folder see chap ter 8 section J Options Dialogue After making your choice click on Save 2 A message Preserve RINs by mak xj ing empty records for deletions is displayed Click Yes to keep the empty records No to omit them On subsequent import RINs are allo cated sequentially from one keep ing the empty records ensures that the original RINs are preserved otherwise records following a deletion will be re numbered However you will need to delete the empty records yourself after importing the file i Preserve RINs by making empty records for deletions Export a List Alternatively you may wish to export only part of your database perhaps to send relevant information to other people with unrelated branches omitted PediTree provides GEDCOM export of records in a list or plan with related Person Mar riage Source and Census records included For a Person list the related records may be parents spouse s and adoptive parents Marriages Sources for events occupations residences and Sources and Censuses directly linked to the Person 128 Chapter 12 GEDCOM 1 From a list right click and choose Save list text GED You can then choose the GEDCOM version as described in the previous section 2 A standard Save As dialogue allows you to select the folder and give a filename After making your choice click on Save 3 A mess
175. rd Ctrl I insert another field before the current one Ctrl L place a link Ctrl P bring up a pick list or File Open dialogue E Record Grid A horizontal display of the fields in one or more records that allows the content of these records to be edited A Record grid can be obtained from the Family display burial educatio occupation farmer Worthing Slindon Suss 170ct1835 Slindon Su 14May1910 Brigh o 67 Chapter 7 Editing Records Each field in the Record grid operates in much the same way as in the Edit dis play described above A similar pop up menu is available on each field The Record grid has a column for the RIN followed by the fields or groups in the record The width of each column is roughly the size of the biggest field in any cell of the grid You can widen any column by dragging the column up to the next one by getting hold of it in the top dark grey heading row Drag the win dow using its title Scroll the fields sideways and stretch the window edge to get the shape that you like Double click on a group field such as birth or a multiple occurrence field to obtain a Detail grid If you are in Edit mode then the fixed row and column will be in your choice of colour not grey or button colour You can edit the record directly in the grid but you will probably find it easier to use the vertical Edit display Right click on the row and choose Edit to obtain this alternative Detail Grid
176. re occu f cords Tecotd records pation residence object and changed The Marriage record has the first three M m48 S parents fields as links to Person records for Klan Roe Bernard the husband wife and children respec Roe tively If there is more than one child P1 then the children field is repeated as P3 needed to accommodate the links for up to twenty children This linking between Person and Marriage records is shown diagrammatically opposite this is the marriage of Alan Roe and M1 Susan Sharp with two of their children MaE fiot E as in the Getting Started Guide book let Susan Frances Sharp Roe All fields in records can be repeated P2 ass PS P5 up to 255 times where the informa tion to be stored makes this appropri a husband wife children children ate So for example a person with three marriages will have three marriages fields to link to three Marriage records Or you can have several occupation Chapter 2 Family History Databases group fields to record an individual s progress in their working life However fields within a group cannot be repeated Group Fields Here are the definitions of the groups and the other two record types defined in Elton55 When editing a group field the fields of the group appear in a horizontal grid not vertically as shown here Event Group Source Record Field Type Tag Field Type Tag date date DATE type text TYPE plac
177. red 5 for the N 0 added Tymczak is coded as T 522 T 5 for the M 2 for the C Z ignored 2 for the K Since the vowel A separates the Z and K the K is coded Names with Prefixes PediTree requires spacing like De Gaulle if a surname has a prefix such as Van Con De Di La or Le code both with and without the prefix because the surname might be listed under either code Note however that Mc and Mac are not considered prefixes For example VanDeusen might be coded two ways V 532 V 5 for N 3 for D 2 for S or in PediTree if spelt Van Deusen D 250 D 2 for the S 5 for the N 0 added 138 Chapter 13 Appendices Consonant Separators if a vowel A E I O U separates two consonants that have the same Soundex code the consonant to the right of the vowel is coded Example Tymezak is coded as T 522 T 5 for the M 2 for the C Z ignored see Side by Side rule above 2 for the K Since the vowel A separates the Z and K the K is coded If H or W separate two consonants that have the same Soundex code the con sonant to the right of the vowel is not coded Example Ashcraft is coded A 261 A 2 for the S C ignored 6 for the R 1 for the F It is not coded A 226 PediTree s Use of Soundex PediTree can use Soundex in two ways 1 Prefix a field name with symbol to use it as index or sort key or show the code in a picture script surname gives A261 for Ashcraft 2 U
178. related to those already entered Replace Text search the whole database for given text and replace it See chap ter 7 section C D List Menu Choices List Print Options Window The List menu choices are as follows Choose s n Ancestors plan Choose brings up a Choose List dialogue to D eee x f escendants plan permit you to select an existing list to display in a Relationshi x 7 ionship new List display See Choose List Dialogue in tion E bel Index create section E below SEER Ancestors plan Places List Descendants plan these two options bring up dates List a dialogue that allows you to create a new Ances Find text tors or Descendants Plan This plan will be dis find current record in index played in a List display enabling you to produce Islands Web drop line Trees See section E Create Descend ants or Ancestors Plan below Relationship calculate and display the relationship between two individuals See section E Calculate Relationship below Index create bring up a List dialogue that enables you to create a new index See section E Index Create below Erase lists brings up a Choose List dialogue in which any one of the lists can be selected for erasure by clicking anywhere on the line Click OK in the ensuing message box to erase it click Cancel to keep it Click X close window to finish erasing The remaining lists are not moved up in order to retain the sam
179. requires a special picture script called Links for each record type to be included in each database defini tion When Check database is checking through each type of record it will report or repair links in the related record s that it finds not the current record So for example if it encounters links in two sources fields in a Person record it will check that the corresponding individuals link in each of the two Source records is present These links picture scripts are also used when records are updated to form the other end of the link For example entering a sources link in a Person record will automatically insert the corresponding individuals link in the Source record Database definition Elton55 already has these links scripts as printed below Person Links sources individuals censuses individual adoptedBy adopted Remove the first line above if you do not want to link back from a Source individuals field to all Person records This applies if you use general Source records such as family knowledge parish register IGP Note links to Source records in groups such as events occupations and resi dences do not maintain the Source individuals links Marriage Links adopted adoptedBy Source Links censuses source Note Source individuals does not maintain the reverse link because it is used for too many different kinds of links from Person Census Links source censuses individual census
180. rips using hp deskjet 930c series page 1673w x 2321h pixels t Reduce using Print menu Report designs Person tree WideTall then adjust width or height In a Wide Tree PediTree divides up the printer page into boxes generations high and strips wide If the Layout width and height is too big or the printer page has too few pixels wide or high then it gives zero generations or strips The example above was produced by using a large font size on A5 paper Reduce the font size from the print menu or use the main menu Print gt Reports gt Person tree WideTall to reduce the width or height before trying again 125 Chapter 12 GEDCOM Chapter 12 GEDCOM A Introduction GEDCOM is the data interchange standard devised by the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints LDS for transferring data between different programs for genealogy GEDCOM files represent the information being transferred in text lines that are identified by a numeric level and a 3 4 letter tag However each program uses its own combination of levels and tags thus causing some difficulty in transfer Pedigree Software s original technical database design was based on the then cur rent version of GEDCOM Pedigree for DOS implemented its own extensions to this standard to handle long text fields PediTree can handle GEDCOM version 4 files including Pedigree s extensions for perfect exchange between Pedigree Software databases GEDCOM version 5 5
181. rname but make it Son of if the sex is Male Facilities for all of this are available in PediTree picture scripts A Picture Scripts A picture script tells PediTree how to display a certain record type group or part of a tree plan There are several kinds of named picture script that form part of a database definition 1 Plan picture scripts used to show a tree plan in the list box or set the line style when drawing trees These are to be found under Person picture scripts having names prefixed with the letters PLAN 2 Record picture scripts used to display information about people marriages and other records on the screen These picture scripts can also be used in print func tions for use on Trees Charts Tables and Reports 3 Group picture scripts can only be used from other picture scripts e g each time an event is mentioned in a Person picture script 30 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions Picture Script Components A picture script consists of a list of components on one or more lines Within the script line breaks have no effect on the output so they are usually arranged for easy reading by humans consistent with no line being longer than 255 characters Here is an example picture script illustrating most possible components Person picture script families le sex m then wifesFam marriages else HusbandsFam marriages end if marriages children present then end The possible components
182. rre sponding Toolbar button i List AncTree A for 18 generations fro Charles Pose _ oy x 15 3 Victoria P002 p 16 2 Edward Vil P004 amp Alexandra of Denmark P016 16 3 Alexandra of Denmark P016 amp Edward Vil P004 17 2 George V P018 amp Mary of Teck PO19 16 4 Francis P087 amp Joan P0865 14 5 George Ill P071 amp Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz PO 5 A Descendants Plan headed e g List 5 DescTree This is a plan for a tree of descendants created by 14 8 Caroline of Nassau Lusingen P139 amp Frederick LANDGRAVE of F 15 7 Augusta of Hesse Cassel P0864 16 6 Joan P086 18 4 Queen Mother Elizabeth BOWES LYON P066 amp George VI POG i i gt 19 3 Q Elizabeth Il P067 choosing List Descendants plan or ETETE E the corresponding Toolbar button fend of list2 of 42 Person records FA 1d 1952 also at A18 3 m Queen Mother Elizabeth BOWES LYON P066 6 A list of Places headed Places pane Sa created by List gt Places List or List Places from the pop up menu in the Choose List dialogue 54 Chapter 6 List Display 7 A list of Dates headed Dates created by List gt dates List or List Dates from the pop up menu in the Choose List dialogue 8 A list of text entries created by List gt Find text or Find text from the pop up menu in the Choose List dialogue 9 A list of text entries created by the Replace Text function
183. rriage fields Ifa field name in a script is in capitals then the result is capitalised 31 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions Prefixing a field name by makes the result the Soundex equivalent of the field See chapter 13 section E Soundex This is usually used for surnames i e surname Prefixing a field name by makes the result the number of fields of this name This can be used in conditional tests and in displays For example the Marriage picture script issue if children 0 then no children found else and had if children 1 then one child else children children end end which might display 3 children Variables like field names but built into PediTree See below for a list Literal text anything enclosed in quotes appears verbatim in the output Newline the character starts a new line in the output Picture script call sending a link or group field to a named picture so that its result is added to the output For example in a Person context name husband sends the link field husband to the picture script called name detail birth sends the group field birth to the picture script called detail name sends the current record to the picture script called name Conditional phrase other elements including at least one field name all in square brackets This material is only displayed if there is information in any enclosed field name for example the script
184. rt of a selection of islands would be to split a database For example you might want to export a database of your spouses s family only In order to do this it would be necessary to make the spouses s fam ily into a separate island rather being included in the whole database Here s one way to do this 1 Bring the family of the spouse to be exported to the centre of the family dis play 2 Right click and Mark the spouse whose family is to be exported 3 In Edit Update mode right click and Detach this spouse 4 Choose List gt Islands and note that an extra island is now present Select this alone and confirm that it contains the spouse in question 5 With this selection Export GEDCOM including linked records This is the wanted family 6 Right click on the empty spouse position in the Family display and Place the marked spouse thus restoring the temporarily broken family Alternatively after step 5 you might decide to delete the exported island which is another possibility to be described below For example after steps 1 4 above on the database that produced the first exam ple display the top section of the island list looks like the example on the next page You will see that the main island of 2855 Person records has been split into two of 1977 amp 878 The second one is the spouse s family to be exported You could of course make two exports one of each islands 1 amp 2 both with linked 94 Chapte
185. rth suspicious P146 Mother s age at birth suspicious M40 Child 3 out of order results from Date Check Now we need to investigate the reason for each line of the list and make an appropriate correction Note that when a date is changed the Date Check results are not automatically updated You need to re run the check to see the effect of your endeavours We now need to investigate each of these reports starting at the top To under stand the reason for the suspicion about the Father s age we need to see the Family display concerned It will be easier to interpret if RINs are displayed so visit Options and ensure there is a tick against RINs shown First click on the top line P109 of the Date Check Results to make that the current Person There are two ways to bring up a Family display for the current Person Either you can click on the tool bar button 3c or you can press key F8 However these two provide slightly different results Clicking on the tool bar button will bring up a new Family display showing the current person keeping any existing Family display whilst pressing key F8 replaces the current Family display with the new one Unless you want to compare two Family displays pressing F8 is more convenient as it causes less clutter of open displays So press key F8 to bring up a Family display for Person P109 it s Margaret daughter of Henry VI Double click on Henry VII to bring him to the central positi
186. ry ing the steps in this article To save you hunting out the Guide here it is Inserting a marriage in exactly the same way as you can insert children you can insert marriages You can try this on the best example of multiple marriages King Henry VIII Right click on the father position in the family display choose RIN Select type in 112 and press Enter As before you will see only five mar riages select the 4th to Catherine Howard by clicking on that tab That s wrong his 4th wife was Anne of Cleves Right click on Henry choose Insert mar riage He now has six marriages Right click on the blank spouse choose Edit new person and insert details of Anne of Cleves 1515 1557 the of Cleves 78 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions goes in the postfix field Edit the marriage to add the date 1540 If you now click on Henry s 5th marriage you will see that this is now correctly to Catherine Howard Having done that now run the date check on the database Choose File gt check Dates to get the Date Check dialogue This shows the default settings as above Change any that differ please then click on Run This will produce a List display of the results as shown here Date Check Results 6 i ifai o x Results of Date Check P109 Father s age at birth su P112 Father s age at birth suspicious P112 Marriage 5 looks bigamous P118 Father s age at birth suspicious P142 Mother s age at bi
187. s shown earlier in this chapter in section B File Menu Functions 108 Chapter 9 Charts and Printing Chapter 9 Charts and Printing This chapter deals first with the Ancestors and Descendant Charts that PediTree provides then with topics concerned with printing them These printing topics are common to all forms of printer output including the Tables Reports and Trees to be described in subsequent chapters A Ancestors and Descendant Charts These two charts display either the ancestors or the descendants of an individual in indented form To produce an Ancestors or Descend x ants chart first choose a person by clicking in a Family display or List geasa ay w display of a Person list Then from the X Cancel main menu choose Print gt Ancestors oo 3 Hep chart or Print gt Descendants chart to ree chartOptions lines ON bring up a Choose number of Genera 7231 lines OFF tions dialogue The Toolbar buttons kS for Ancestors Chart and Ee for Descendants Chart are convenient Set the number of generations that you want to include The indentation width 250 maximum and lines ON OFF can be changed These changes last for the current PediTree session only Ensure that the width is at least 20 indentation x generations otherwise there won t be space for any detail If you want to send the chart in an email make the width less than 72 For print ing make the width higher than 80 if you want only th
188. s to view and manipulate the stored information The three principal such displays fea ture in the next chapters about the Family display the List display and Editing Records Within these displays PediTree makes extensive use of context sensitive Chapter 1 Introduction or pop up menus These are obtained by clicking the right mouse button on the display area in question they are all documented in these chapters Here is an annotated view of PediTree s main display that identifies the principal elements Main Menu Toolbar Pedilree C PEDIGREE royall3 ped 13 Andrew of Greece POS lerica of cadena even P083 Frederick P101 163 ontext Menu ip PO60 and had 4 children b 1926 l aged 21 m 2nNav1947 in Weetminster Abbey to tae m 14Nov1973 to Captain Mark PHILLIPS P129 aged 25 had 4 child fivt382 1 chores Detail Box ca 32 m 29Jul1 aged Detail Box LAURENCE P154 aged 37 SPENCER P091 aged 20 3 Prince Andrew P152 19Feb1960 aged 26 m 23Jul1986 to Sarah FERGUSON P153 aged 26 div 28Aug1996 div 30May1996 2 Anne PO8S 1950 aged 23 m 14Nov1973 to C f4 Edward P090 List Display Family Display e Status Line Ckck to see wile detai nghi cick popup for edi pat 47 Royal03 Other more general operations are provided from a conventional Windows main menu across the top of the screen The main menu entries are all described as are the functions they provide that are n
189. s in file size 8 kb PediTree C PEDIGREE roe2 ped 325 checked 04 08 04 15 27 11 but not in update mode linkMissing M1 children add P3 1 missing links in Marriage children from Person parents chkDBmsg M1 childrenl Zero link linkMissing P 1 parents add M3 2 missing links in Person parents from Marriage children linkMissing P 1 censuses add C1 There is one corrupt children entry in Marriage record M1 which should point to Person P3 one missing parents entry and one missing censuses entry in Person record P1 Running again in Edit mode corrects these errors PediTree C PEDIGREE roe2 ped 325 checked 04 08 04 15 27 51 linkMissing M1 children add P3 added 1 missing links in Marriage children from Person parents chkDBmsg M1 childrenl Zero link deleted linkMissing P 1 parents add M3 added 2 missing links in Person parents from Marriage children 76 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions linkMissing P1 censuses add C1 added Check database also checks indexes for the correct order of the records they con tain If any index is found to have records in the wrong order then PediTree will offer to correct this It is recommended that you click Yes to allow this to be done In additional check database verifies some aspects of the data files including their information about free space within the files available for re use This infor mation can be corrupted by any program or machine failure Any problem is reported
190. s in trees and charts lineDown for colour and width of lines below or right of nodes in trees and charts 35 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions B Conditional Expressions Conditional or logical expressions or comparisons can have one of two values true or false They are used in filters and picture scripts Simple Comparisons Simple comparisons are in the form below where f must be a field whilst g can be field or a literal A literal must be surrounded by quotes unless the field f is a date a RIN or a choice field f g equal to fog not equal to f lt g less than f cannot be a choice field f gt g more than f cannot be a choice field f lt g less than or equal to or f before g f gt g more than or equal to or f after g f between xandy true iff gt x and f lt y f cannot be a choice field f like g f sounds like g using the Soundex code f contains g true if text f includes text g f absent true if field f or link f or group f is not present in a record f present true if field f or link f or group f is present in a record When comparing text values the comparison is made alphabetically with case differences lower upper being ignored So for example colin COLIN is true For more complex expressions e g in filters it is necessary to provide literal val ues These can be text dates numbers or choice words text in quotes e g Joe dates as entered on an edit display e g 9 Oct 1
191. s it removes the constraint of a sin gle line of limited length You can choose the font used in this display see chap ter 8 section G sub section Fonts Text will be shown word wrapped in the window Press Enter to start a new paragraph It is recommended but not essential to leave one space after a comma semicolon and two spaces after a colon or a full stop period A Person Alan ROE bapt 170ct1835 14May1910 motes 15 xj chiistening source parish register at West Sussex Record Office This is a longtext field notes see the in the margin in the Text display 62 Chapter 7 Editing Records space ensures that word wrap will occur after a word or comma To close the Text display press F9 or click on the at the left of the Edit display behind it Validation When you save your changes some validation checks may be performed If there is a picture script named validate for the record type being edited this script will be applied to the record Any output from the script will be shown as a message and you will be invited to choose between saving your changes anyway or cancel ling to correct an apparent error The Elton55 database design provides valida tion scripts that check for apparent inconsistencies between dates in the records B Editing Specific Field Types There are special techniques or formats involved for certain types of fields as will now be described Choice Fields Pressing
192. s not implemented in the same way but in two different ways If you just want the spouses in direct ancestry then make a descendants plan for maximum generations for the ancestor that you would have marked in Pedigree line of descent Find the person that you would have used as the descendant for the line in the plan list noting their plan letter and generation number Make an ancestors plan with the FamilyDescent selecting the plan letter and gen erations noted If there is more than one line of descent then each will be shown with the blood line in red If you want the siblings in all the families in the descent then make a full ances tors plan for the descendant with maximum number of generations Find the ancestor in the plan list noting their plan letter and generation Subtract this gen eration from the base number shown at the top of the ancestor plan or with a 144 Chapter 13 Appendices colon in the choose list Then make a descendants plan with this number of gen erations using the letter chosen in the Family Descent combi box RINs prefixed PediTree will always prefix RINs by the first letter of the record type name such as P for Person and M for Marriage The number will be padded out to the maxi mum size for that type of record with leading zeroes Remember to extend Report area sizes to cope with a RIN field of 6 characters EDIT Panels and PLAN Picture Script Names PediTree prefixes edit panel names by EDIT and P
193. screen before you are asked to confirm the rearrangement Then the child num bers will be recalculated and the database updated The Family display will show an empty box for another child of the family unless you have just switched on Edit mode If there is no igang space for the last child double click the father or mother to refresh the display You cannot have more than 20 children in a Marriage Family of M029 Philip POGO amp Elizabeth Il P067 To insert a spouse merely edit the empty per son and a Marriage record will be created i cess Royal When placing a Person who has been marked _ Snr Peson 3 Fand in indes in a List display you may discover that it can t Tarm be done until they are detached from a similar l p aged 23 m 1 14Nov1973 to Captain Mark PHILLIP relationship For instance a Person with par _div 1992 and had 2 children ents already can t be placed as a child Detach them first The message Marked person is their own parent will appear if you try to place a parent as a child in the same family ilip P060 amp Elizabeth Il PO67 To see or change the full marriage details of grandparents first double click to bring them to the parents position in the centre of the display If you place a spouse then if they were already married this will become the last of their marriages This can be used to rearrange the order of their marriages 52 Chapter 5
194. scribed in chapter 4 section D Tree Line Style changes The default print title and heading are shown at the top They can be changed by clicking at the top of the screen then altering them in the resulting Printing dia logue Right click in the preview to bring up a menu with the following choices Diagram Back Esc return to the outline view Print all for all pages of the Chart Print page n for the current page n e g Print page 1 See section B Printing below 112 Chapter 9 Charts and Printing Layout brings up a Layout dialogue to change the Chart layout Save image save the current page as an image in JPG format View page m view the next page e g View page 2 Authorship rectangle places a rectangle with your personal details at the point at which you right clicked The text is taken from your PediTree registra tion file and is presented to you first in an editing window as shown for you to make any required changes Double click in this window to place the rectangle To remove the rectangle temporarily select another Table design tab then return to this one Orientate brings up a Print Setup dialogue so that you can change the paper ori entation or other settings B Printing Whenever you choose to print a Chart iajxi Table Report or Tree then two com S alos brief chart Pap E mon steps follow These will now be _ its of George VI P062 1895 1952 i described Your name
195. se the comparison like to compare the Soundex codes of two variables without prefixing either surname like Smith F Limits in PediTree and Pedigree 0 20 children in a family per Marriage 1 or 2 spouses in a Marriage 0 10 Marriages per Person 40 generations in a tree with 5000 people nodes in a plan but no limit in the database 8000 strips in a Tall Tree 20 Databases families PED in a folder for Pedigree PediTree unlimited In Pedigree for DOS use Change Directory from the file menu to go to another folder which can contain a further 20 databases Database names cannot be more than 8 characters letters numbers 255 characters in a line of data TXT comma separated values CONTROL GED filters pictures report width family GED GEDCOM input output file printer PRN only 30 characters in a Pedigree printer sequence 25 in seq desc 15 sequences 20 synonyms 7 Record types 139 Chapter 13 Appendices 32 767 records per file DAT each file contains one type of record 1 Mb file for PED databases 3 Mb file for PDG databases 4 Mb file for PDH databases 6 Mb file for PDJ databases not Pedigree 9 Mb file for PDM databases not Pedigree 50 Fields for each record type 15 letters in a field name 10 fields in a group 255 characters in a text field 4090 characters in a longtext field dates between 100 AD and 2100 AD 21 max characters in a date edit e g bef 11 Mar 1699 1700 8 cho
196. see chapter 7 sec tion C Types 1 5 are stored in your database and will be available if you come back to it in another PediTree session Types 6 9 are not stored and are lost when you close the List display or leave PediTree The format of the display for types 1 5 is determined by the relevant picture script named list from your database for 4 amp 5 known by the shorthand plans this is the PLANlist script found under the Person record Single click an item in the list to select it and show it in the Detail Box which works in the same way as that in the Family display The highlight will be placed on the current record this type which is normally the last one selected Double click an item to bring up the Edit display Use the RH scrollbar to quickly move down a list PediTree adds lines to the list by paging in about 100 lines at a time This setting can changed from the Options dialogue obtained by Options gt Settings If the visible part of the list has to be extended then move the mouse into the List box and you will see the scroll bar move to your current position in the extended list Alternately using the scrollbar and the List box will move the visible section You can press the End key to go quickly to the end of the list Home to the beginning the Page Up and Page Down keys have the expected effect B List Pop up Menu A right click on any list entry but not EE the heading line will pop up a context menu The
197. suses Census link entered after creating Census records marriages this Marriage record link is only entered when this source record is the source of the marriage or divorce event objects object group for images or sounds about this Source such as group pho tos author the author of this Source for GEDCOM conformance publisher the publisher of this Source notes about this Source changed changed group updated when this record is edited Using Source Records There are two ways in which source records can be used The first is to provide a general heading applicable to a number of actual documents For example type cert text or title certificates held by Geraldine Roe This assumes that Geraldine the family genealogist holds a file of certificates that document a number of people and events The same approach may be used with wills family Bibles and the like Each person and event documented in this holding is then linked to this single source record Using title rather than text will cause it to appear when cited in the Person Detail Box The second way is to have an individual source record containing the relevant details for each document or index entry This is appropriate where a copy of the 24 Chapter 3 Using the Databases source document is not held It may also be appropriate for particular wills etc that document a number of people or events Particular examples are type GRO B similarly for
198. t this list summary using the current printer set up Erase list erase the selected list After confirmation this line shows erased for the remainder of this PediTree session GEDCOM list export export this list as a GEDCOM file See chapter 12 sec tion D for more information List Places creates a new List display for the place names in the records in this list only The resulting places list is kept only for the current session of PediTree but can be saved from the List display context menu either as text or as a Places pick list see section E Place name Pick list below List Dates creates a new List display for all dates in the records in this list only The resulting dates list is kept only for the current session of PediTree but can be saved in text form from the List display context menu Find Text search records in this list for given text and display a list of the entries found See section E Find Text below for more details Replace Text Edit mode search the records in this list for given text and replace it See chapter 7 section C for details To remove the Choose List dialogue click the close button X in the top right corner Index Create An index is a list of all of the records of one type that is kept in a particular order It is the only type of list that is updated when records are changed or added to the database A List dialogue is displayed showing the record types ava
199. ted to its size on this screen It uses the current print set up draw Report the List display will be replaced by a display of a Report This display will have tabs across the top for the Reports available for the type of record that you had selected Click on the Back tab to return to the List display See chapter 10 for Report printing Sort list not for plans a new list will be created from this one selected and keys to sort it on can be chosen unless this was a Places or Dates list These lat ter types are automatically sorted on their initial characters For other types see chapter 8 section E Index Create for the method of selecting the sorting keys Tall Tree plans only the list screen will be replaced with a diagram showing the layout of a Tall Tree See chapter 11 for more information on Trees Wide Tree plans only the list screen will be replaced with a diagram showing the layout of a Wide Tree See chapter 11 for more information 57 Chapter 6 List Display Draw Table indexes and filled lists only the List display will be replaced with a display of a Table This display will have tabs across the top for the Tables available for the current type of record Click on the Back tab to return to the List display See chapter 10 for information on Tables Insert Record Edit mode in indexes filled lists and plans brings up an Edit display to create a new record of the same type as the list This doesn t wor
200. ter but may alter the apparent width of the other columns PediTree starts a new page with a new record so avoiding widows and orphaned lines of text belonging to another page However if a record cannot fit a page the end of the record will be cut off Table Layout Changes Always back up your database before making changes which cannot be undone The Layout dialogue lists all the col zj umns of a Table with the start of the conc ME hn ja A E 0 Poson namete width position last lithe picture script JE picture scripts that are used for each Siasi we Let z Right column Clicking on the picture script o n tt N i iti i ic fe Fotenames w ae will show it in full in the normal Pic C e e S ture Scripts Editor where it can be eos ecean e L i bith present than bith place elio che changed cols Paconts R L t tether forenames mother forensmeos The second line will show the name of psp Delete cokes 6 the Table and the overall width calcu lated from the column settings Right click on the title line to get a pop up menu as shown to append a new Table column or delete the whole table Deleting a Table merely changes the 118 Chapter 10 Tables and Reports name of the table to erased It will then be deleted at the end of the session when you close the database or exit PediTree However before then the Table could be rejuvenated by changing its name back to a valid one You can edit
201. the new folder Whatever choice you make the name will be displayed in the Output Folder box Your choice is saved with other settings when you generate or click on Save Settings 97 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions You can choose whether to display newly generated Web output by placing a tick in the Display Generated Pages box The People list on the left is there to allow the choice of subjects for Charts that are then listed on the right The contents of this list is determined by the selec tions made in the Islands display from which this dialogue was produced To set up a new chart find the subject person in the People list then double click on their entry This will produce a small additional display in which you can select the type of chart Ascendant Pedigree or Descendant and the number of generations to be included A zero in this latter entry will allow all available gen erations to be shown The additional display is like that below without the Delete Chart button Click OK to confirm your settings when the new chart will appear in the Charts list The entry in this list indicates the type number of gener ations and the subject in a clearly coded form To alter or delete a chart double click on its entry in the Charts list This will pro duce a small additional display in which you can change the type of chart Display Generated Pages V Charts or the number of generations to be i i i 4 0 U
202. the table name to a unique for this record type fully alphabetic name of up to 16 characters without spaces or numbers then click OK Right click on the definition of a column to give a pop up menu with the follow ing options Append column z add a new column at the right hand end of the Table end of the list Insert column n insert a new column before the present one New columns are by default left justified with a width of 20 Delete column n remove the current column and move the others up After creating a new column you will need to insert a column title alter the posi tion if required and add a picture script Click OK to confirm the changes and view the result You can adjust the Table column widths by dragging and dropping in Table view mode or by returning to the layout dialogue and changing the width values To rearrange the order of columns in a Table go to the Layout dialogue hold down the left mouse button on the left hand grey row name and drag it to the required position The dialogue will show that the row in the definition has moved but it will retain its old column number for now Rearrange other rows of the definition before clicking OK to redraw the Table Table Grid This provides a view of the whole Table shown as a grid with columns but no horizontal ruling It is useful for rapid browsing through the grid for examining the data As the whole list has to be drawn it takes more tim
203. their birth or christening date in two ways either at a given date Age Now or at the date of an event in their life Age Then Both calculations require a picture script called BORN to pro vide the base date This picture script is defined in Elton55 as if birth date present then birth date else christening date end 41 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions Age Now The date to be used to display an individual s age is selected by choosing Options gt Dates from the main menu then selecting a date from the resulting Options Dia logue Selecting Now none turns off the display of age now To display age now you can use the field AGE in any Person picture script or descendant AGE In Elton55 it is used in the Person name picture script so that it shows against all names if death date gt today or burial date gt today or death date absent and burial date absent and age lt 110 then Snow AGE mW end The use of braces is a personal choice and the word now is used to avoid con fusion with ages calculated from an event date where the word aged is used The variable today is altered by the Options dialogue It takes the format 20031122 22 Nov 2003 exact date but the sign will be absent at the start of a session and when setting Now none This can be used to prevent showing ages and comments when no date has been selected e g following other conditions if today contains then now
204. ther open window from this list L Help Menu Choices Press the function key F1 to get help on any menu or window even if no Help button is shown In the on line Tia help find out how to use it by pressing F1 You can add About copyright your own comments to the on line help if you want to Contents press F1 and then see under Customizing Help Version The choices in this help menu are Hints and tips current RINs About copyright shows basic PediTree version copy right and contact information in a message box A Help button leads to an introductory page of the on line help debug diagnostics Contents brings up the main contents page of the on line help Version shows the program version number and a summary of changes from the previous release The Help button gives the on line help version number and a history of changes Hints and Tips brings up some useful hints for when you first open a database 107 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Current RINs shows a list of Record types RT each with their record count the highest RIN used and the current RIN together with a brief script summary of the contents of that current record The record types are identified by a letter and number e g P 0 Person M 1 Marriage S 2 source C 3 census e 4 empty space for a new record type xi RT count highest RIN current P 0 00008 00008 00001 Alan ROE P001 M 100003 00003 00001 M001 Alan ROE
205. to your database 1 It is sensible first to do a Find operation on the same basis before the Replace operation to verify that you will be making the expected changes You can keep the resulting Find list display for comparison with the result of the Replace opera tion See Find Text in chapter 8 section E 2 You must be in Edit mode to use this function 3 To replace text in the records in an existing list choose List gt Choose or click the Choose List button on the oo i y n xl speed bar to bring up the List dialogue TECG I Right click on the required list and m enlace wih foround pe choose Replace text A Replace dia oxen logue will appear Go to step 5 a D Maichoae cme 1 4 To replace text in all records ofall Te types choose Edit gt Replace text from the main menu A Replace dialogue will appear 5 Enter the text to be replaced in the Find what box You may enter up to 60 characters The case of the text is ignored that is draper will match draper Draper or DRAPER unless you tick the Match case box To include a newline character in the text to be found use the character 6 Enter the replacement text in the Replace with box You may enter up to 60 characters The replacement text may be empty or contain only one or more spaces and will be used to replace that matched using an empty replacement text effectively deletes the matched text 7 Click Replace All the Find
206. two names based on whether they sound alike An example of the first is Forenames contains John which would match John Andrew John and Johnny The like operator is based on a system called Soundex which classifies letters together which sound alike So forenames like Alice would catch Alice Alison Alistair forenames like Joan would catch Joan John Jean Jane surname like Smith would catch Smith Smithe Smythe It is particularly useful with surnames that vary in spelling See chapter 13 section E for information about Soundex 37 Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions Complex comparisons AND OR NOT A complex expression is a set of simple logical expressions linked by the words not and and or The not operator simply reverses the result of a test For example not a lt b is equivalent toa gt b not a contains bis true if a does not contain b not surname like Smith catches all people whose surname does not sound like Smith It can also be combined with and and or The and operator takes the result of two simple expressions and is true if both expressions are true For example forenames contain John and surname Smith will be true for John Smith and Johnny Smith but false for David Smith John Brown and David Jones The or operator takes the result of two simple expressions and is true if either expressions are true For example forenames contain John or surname Smith
207. umber and xxxxxxxx is the run time error address The run time errors are divided into three categories Input Output errors numbered 100 through 149 fatal errors numbered 200 through 255 Operating system errors 143 Chapter 13 Appendices Most of these will be beyond your control except possibly for a few input output errors SS x 100 Disk read error C PEDIGREE yoebad ped Person ind in use by another program or Read only from a CDROM 101 Disk write error hardware ae problems or disk full Use scandisk to check 105 File not open for output Could be open in another program or Read only possibly copied from a CDROM See the Getting Started Guide for a method of removing the read only attribute Cde Shown in Pedigree as DOS error 5 H PediTree Shortcomings Pedigree still has to be used to overcome the following shortcomings of PediTree as at March 2011 Printed Reports Report areas sizes and background cannot be altered in PediTree yet Picture scripts can be changed J Differences from Pedigree for DOS PediTree has been designed to be as compatible as possible with Pedigree for DOS but there are differences in order to take advantage of Windows facilities and upgrade the Pedigree language features Little attempt has been made to retain keyboard compatibility because of the fun damental nature of the change to mouse operation The following are the main differences Lines of Descent This i
208. us Record Event Group Occupation Group Residence Group Object Group Changed Group Chapter 4 Picture Scripts and Expressions A Picture Scripts Picture Script Components Variables Reserved Picture Script Names B Conditional Expressions Simple Comparisons Complex comparisons AND OR NOT Date Comparisons C Useful Filters Person or Marriage Lists Person Lists Marriage Lists Source Lists D Tree Line style Changes E Age Picture Scripts Age Now Age Then F Links picture script Person Links Marriage Links Source Links Census Links G Hot Links H Picture Script Editor J Picture Script Errors K Picture Script Name Changes or Additions L PedSpecs Utility Program Chapter 5 Family Display and Detail Box A Using the Family Display Several Marriages B Family Pop up menu Edit Mode C Family Updating when in Edit mode D Detail Box Hot Links Chapter 6 List Display A Types of List B List Pop up Menu C Filtered Searches Filter Examples Chapter 7 Editing Records A Edit Display Field Editing Edit Display Pop up Menu Text Display Validation B Editing Specific Field Types Choice Fields Text Long Text Dates Object File Field Place Fields Link Fields C Edit Panels Change Edit Panels Dialogue D Using the Keyboard E Record Grid Detail Grid F Replace Text Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions A File Menu Choices B File Menu Functions Open a Database New Database CSV Import Check Database Check Files Linked Date Ch
209. ut the comma separators are still there The second record has the last field in quotes because the text contains a comma and also a new line Some CSV files have all fields in quotes not just those containing commas Not all files have a heading as in our exam ple Importing a CSV file into PediTree is similar in some ways to GEDCOM import After choosing Import gt CSV from the File menu you can choose the file to import from a standard Windows File Open dialogue Having done that a CSV Import display appears as shown here The list shows the fields of the chosen CSV file with the target PediTree field for each that is the field into which it will be imported Initially all the tar get fields show as none meaning the import will be ignored To proceed you need to choose first the target record type then the target field for each incoming field that you wish to Sve tine A Read complete in 0 00 seconds import To enable Import set Targel s and Edt mode Import CSV Fiekd Tithes in Ist Line Y import 139 records to Recordtype Perron X In this example there are no headings in the CSV file so the field names are taken from the first record as is apparent To correct this click on the Field Titles in 1st Line box to remove the check mark The fields will then be named Field 1 and so on and the number of records to be imported is increased by one as in the next illustration Field Tiles
210. which will allow you to save the list as text in case you want to incorporate it into a document or use it in another way Note if any fields that are part of the key s of an existing index are altered the index is not re sorted to reflect the change If you see that this is possible delete the affected index and recreate it 10 The Replace list is not stored by PediTree so will be lost if you close it or leave the program 70 Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions Chapter 8 Main Menu Choices and Functions PediTree has the conventional main menu bar at the top of its main window This chapter describes these menu entries and choices and gives information about the functions provided A File Menu Choices Open open a database If you already have an opened database the existing database will be closed and an open database dialogue shown for choosing another one See section B Open a Data base below Toolbar button J has the same effect Close DB close the currently open database per haps to allow Pedigree for DOS to be used and return to PediTree after closing the database in Ped igree See also GEDCOM Back up in section B below Save lists defns save list and script changes commit any outstanding database record changes but do not close the database This save function is carried out automatically every five minutes when you are not making changes to lists or scripts but this choice lets you save
211. ype a date of your choice into the box Click OK to con firm the date set is displayed in the PediTree toolbar and is kept for the current session only Clicking on the date in the Toolbar brings up this dialogue so that you can change the date Date Prefixes Change the abbreviation used for before about circa and after This setting is remembered in the open database and restored when that database is used again Click OK to confirm the change The normal prefixes are Full prefix Abbreviation GEDCOM ISO date suffix for filters comparisons before bef BEF lt exact after aft AFT gt about cir ABT Date Formats Click on the down arrow to select the format This setting is remembered in the open database and restored when that database is used again Note the option to show the day of the week Click OK to confirm the change The list of formats is shown here with examples dd mmm yyyy 03 Jan 2003 dd mmm yyyy 03 Jan 2003 ddmmmyyyy 03Jan2003 yyyymmdd 20030103 ISO Format yyyy 2003 yyyy mm dd 2003 01 03 x ddd dmmm yyyy Fri 3 Jan 2003 d mmm yyyy 3 Jan 2003 The last three settings are not compatible with Pedigree for DOS The string is shown in the date edit box according to the rules below The global variable refers to your Windows Regional and Language settings GEDCOM export always uses dd MMM yyyy 03 JAN 2003 d Displays the day as a number without a leading zero 1 31 dd Displays the day
212. ype the new name and press Enter or Esc Then use the script editor to enter your new script You cannot delete a script name It is best to change its name to empty and delete its script text so that you can reuse this entry to make a new script later L PedSpecs Utility Program PedSpecs is a viewer for the specifications of PediTree database designs Its pur pose is to help the understanding of the database designs particularly the picture scripts that control how the stored information is displayed Such understanding helps when changes to the design are contemplated No further instructions for PedSpecs are provided here it has its own on line documentation If you didn t install it from the CDROM with PediTree there is a Windows ver sion of Colin Liebenrood s PedSpecs which you can download from lt http wiki pugweb org uk gt PedSpecs for Windows is a development of PedSpecs for DOS that originally provided this function 48 Chapter 5 Family Display and Detail Box Chapter 5 Family Display and Detail Box The Family display shows three generations with a husband and wife in the cen tre All people can be selected for use by other features such as Ancestors Charts by a single click and the Detail Box will be filled The marriages of the parents or grandparents can be selected too The person or marriage thus selected becomes the current record of that type Family of M051 Captain Mark PHILLIPS P
213. ze format Switch to Edit mode then File gt GEDCOM Import to import the GEDCOM file exported in step 1 U amp Check that no errors have occurred and that the new database appears to con tain all your information Keep the old one until you are satisfied Pedigree ENC user registration is invalid PediTree checks that your serial number name and address are in a valid encoded file that should not be tampered with Cannot find Pedigree ENC user registration PediTree will look for this file in the starting folder See section C above illegal Fpos lt number gt Xrectypes RecLength lt number gt not equal lt number gt final field No picture for Fetch lt here gt NameToken ft lt number gt lt here gt CondType lt words gt at the point in the program called lt here gt a sym bol has not been recognised Make a note of this message to inform Pedigree Software GetBuffer RIN 98 inconsistent for record type 4 RIN 99 this means that a Census record type 4 RIN 99 is corrupt Pedigree Software s Database Utilities program can be used to correct the error by erasing the faulty record Alternatively they ask you to send your database for correction Never send your database by email or otherwise without first asking for advice Run time error codes Certain errors at run time cause the program to display an error message and may terminate Run time error nnn at xxxxxxxx where nnn is the run time error n
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