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Parents Ver. 2.31
by NickleWare
INTRODUCTION
PARENTS is an application that was designed to help make collecting and
organizing your genealogy easier. With the help of PARENTS, you will be able
to more easily gather, store, and view information about all of your
ancestors as well as your children and your children's children.
PARENTS allows you to enter and store vital information such as names,
birth, marriage, death dates and places and more. All of this information
can then be easily organized and related together to form your family tree.
You will also be able to print the detailed information about any one of
your ancestors as well as print your immediate tree.
REGISTRATION
PARENTS is not public domain, nor is it free software. You are granted
a limited license to use this product on a trial basis. You are also
granted a license to copy PARENTS, along with the documentation, for the
trial use by other users. PARENTS has not been intentionally crippled or
limited in its functionality in any way. If you wish to continue using the
product, you must send $25 to:
NickleWare
P.O. Box 393
Orem, UT. 84059 USA
If you would like an original copy or an update to the latest release of the
software, please add $5 for shipping and handling.
We encourage you to copy PARENTS and share it with anyone who might be
interested in tracking down their roots and learning where they came from.
GETTING STARTED
REQUIREMENTS -
Microsoft Windows 3.0 or higher
IBM compatible PC 286/386
Before proceeding, make sure that you have Microsoft Windows correctly
installed. Next create a directory called PARENTS and copy the PARENTS
software (PARENTS.EXE) into this directory. PARENTS is now ready to be
started. Simply start PARENTS from the RUN... menu selection of the Windows
Program Manager or add it to a Program Manager group by following the
directions in the Windows 3.0 manual for creating a group item. PARENTS
will then create all of the data files it needs to run, and place them on
the same drive and path where the software was installed.
When PARENTS is started for the first time, the following entry will be
placed in the WIN.INI file which is probably in the same directory where
windows is installed.
[PARENTS]
DBPath=<drive>:<path>\
This tells PARENTS where to find the data files. The key word DBPath
is set equal to the <drive> and full <path> including the trailing backslash,
where the PARENTS data files will reside. For example:
[PARENTS]
DBPath=C:\Parents\
You can change where PARENTS looks for the data files by simple
altering the DBPath. Then move the datafiles from the directory where they
were created to the new directory you specified in the DBPath.
INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET
The main window for data collection is the INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET. All
of the genealogical information about any individual can be entered into
this worksheet. It contains fields for the individual's name, birth date
and place, christening date and place, the date and place where the
individual was married, where and when the individual died and when and
where the individual was buried. In addition to these fields is a misc.
notes field that can be used to store any additional information, and a
place to indicate the sex of the individual. The information that is
entered into the date and place fields does not have to be in any specific
format.
MENU SELECTIONS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET.
NEW - This selection, from the FILE pull down menu, will display a
blank INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET. After all of the information has been entered
into the worksheet, click on the SAVE pushbutton. This will add a new
record to the data base storing all of the information that was entered.
OPEN - This selection, from the FILE pull down menu, will display a
list of all of the individuals that have been entered into the database. An
individual can be selected from this list by highlighting it and clicking on
the SELECT pushbutton or by double clicking on the selection. All of the
information that was previously stored in the database about this individual
will be displayed in the worksheet. This information can be updated or added
to, and then saved.
PRINT - This selection will print the worksheet information for the
currently selected individual.
PUSHBUTTON ACTIONS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET.
SAVE - This action will save the information that has been entered into
the INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET. If SAVE is clicked after entering a NEW
individual, the information will be added to the database. If SAVE is
clicked after updating the information for an existing individual, the
updates will be saved in the database.
DELETE - An existing individual's information can be deleted from the
database if that individual is not currently being used in the FAMILY TREE.
After clicking the DELETE pushbutton, a message prompt will appear
requesting a confirmation of the action. If the individual exists in the
FAMILY TREE, a message prompt will appear indicating that the individual
cannot be deleted.
CLOSE - This action will close the INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET. If the
worksheet was initiated by selecting OPEN... from the FILE menu, the
Individual List will be redisplayed.
NEXT - This action will display the data for the next individual record
in the database.
PREVIOUS - This action will display the data for the previous
individual record in the database.
IMMEDIATE FAMILY TREE
The IMMEDIATE FAMILY TREE displays and allows you to update a selected
individual's family tree. The FAMILY TREE's center box has a thicker border
than the other boxes in the tree. Any individual that is placed in this box
will cause the tree to be centered around him or her. In other words, all
of that individual's immediate family will be displayed in the other boxes
of the tree.
An individual can be placed in the FAMILY TREE's center box in one of
two ways. The first way is by dragging and dropping from the INDIVIDUAL
LIST. This is done by highlighting an individual with the mouse, and while
holding the mouse button down, moving the mouse pointer over the center box.
When the mouse button is released, the selected individual will appear in
the center box and the rest of the tree will automatically be filled in.
The second way is by highlighting an individual in the INDIVIDUAL LIST, then
pulling down the RELATIONS pull down menu and selecting INDIVIDUAL. Again,
the selected individual will appear in the center box and the rest of the
tree will be filled in.
The IMMEDIATE FAMILY TREE can also be used to create a family tree. To
do this, first make a selection from the INDIVIDUAL LIST and place that
selection in the center box. Then in the same manner as described above,
place each member of the immediate family in the appropriate box. As each
selection is placed in the tree, that selection is related to the individual
in the center box according to the position in which it is placed. To the
left of the center box is the Children List. Each child of an individual in
the center box, should be placed in the Children List. Directly below the
center box is the Spouse List. The individual's current spouse and each
previous spouse (if any) should be placed in this list. At the top right of
the center box is the Father box. The Father of the selected individual
should be placed in this box. Directly below the Father box, is the Mother