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Persons table
In Persons table you can do all actions described in Interface overview, you can create, edit or delete a person, you can view information about a person, build a family tree and a lineage list.
Any data from the table can be saved in a file or printed; statistics for the table can be seen.
How to create a person
The menu Create
allows to create a new person related to the active person:
Father
and Mother
are active only if they haven't been created for the current (active) person yet. Brother
and Sister
are active only if the active person has a mother or a father (or both). A person of unknown sex cannot have a child, even an adopted one.
Attention! All actions in Create
menu lead to the creation of a new person. If you need to connect the active person with another person that was created before, you need to create or edit a corresponding event (a marriage, for example) or to specify a mother or a father in person's edit window.
How to edit a person
On the Information
tab of the person's edit window there is some main information about a person:
All information is divided into several groups:
- A photograph. This is the person's main photo. The button
in the right upper corner of the photo opens the menu of actions connected to the photo. It is possible to choose a photo from a file, in this case a new document is createdand then set as the person's main photo. It is possible to choose an existing document (a photo) connected to the person (from the list).
No photo
clears the main photo window, this action does not delete the document that was used before clearing. - Data group under the photo.
Sex
can be changed only if it does not contradict the events where this person participates. For example, if a woman participates inBirth
event as a mother, her sex cannot be changed. If the person does not have any children created,No children
option is active, it is possible to set its value. If at least one child is created, the option is changed tohas children
and becomes inactive. Levels of confidentiality and authenticity are set at user's discretion. They can be used in filters, or when saving data into a separate file. A person marked asFavourite
is given in bold letters in Persons table and in the tree. It is possible to find quickly a favourite with the help of navigation panel. - Person's full name.
- Main information about person's
birth
. The buttonopens the event edit window which contains all main information about the event.
- Main information about person's death or turned on
Alive
option if the person is living. - Data fields. Some fields can be found in the
menu, others are always shown in this list of data fields. It depends on if the
Always show in the edit window
option is turned on or off in the field options window. It is possible to create new fields or to edit the existing ones in fields options window. - Comment.
On the Events
tab there is a list of events the person participates in. It is possible to create, edit and delete events; to change the order of events is possible if the changes do not contradict the events dates.
Documents
tab contains a list of documents connected to the person.
Sources link
tab contains a list of links to the sources where the information was taken from.