Biography - families

Parents

Editing a person's parents and relationship with parents. You can have multiple parents for a person.

Father and mother

Displays the selected parent.

Type

Display parent relationship with the children. If the parent is biological or if the foster parent or any other type.

  The parents listed first are the ones that appear in the pedigrees, regardless of their relationship to the children.

Press

To...

Ctrl+L Add a new couple family
Ctrl+Shift+Delete Delete couple family
Ctrl+Alt+Up Move selected family backwards
Ctrl+Alt+Down Move selected family forward

Families

Editing a persons families. Status, Reference number, Private and Family notes are visible depending on whether you choose to display them, see preferences - biography.

Status

Shows the couple's relationship. Besides the pre-defined: unknown, cohabit, unmarried, married, divorced and separated, you can specify your own relationships in the text box.

Reference number

A user-defined number or text for the family. Maximum 20 characters.

Family notes

Biography or similar notes about the family. Maximum 32672 characters.

Press

To...

Ctrl+H Add new family
Ctrl+Delete Delete family
Alt+Up Move selected family backwards
Alt+Down Move selected family forward

Children

The children of the family that is selected. Here you can add and edit children's names and birthdays, sort their order and enter credibility, ie. how confident you are that the child belongs to the family. If the connection to the child is uncertain it is reflected in the pedigrees in the form of broken connection lines.

Credibility

Press

To...

Ctrl+Shift+B Add a child
Alt+Up Move selected child up
Alt+Down Move selected child down

  You can make all persons in the family tab to main persons by clicking of the arrow to the right of them.

See also