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.
Information from the table can be exported to a file or printed. You can also get statistics.
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.
On the Information
tab of the person edit window there is some main information about a person:
All information is divided into several groups:
No photo
clears the main photo window, this action does not delete the document that was used before clearing.Sex
can be changed only if it does not contradict the events where this person participates. For example, if a woman participates in Birth
event as a mother, her sex cannot be changed. If the person does not have any children created, No children
option is active, you can turn it on. If at least one child is created, the option is changed to has children
and becomes inactive. Levels of confidentiality and authenticity are set at your discretion. They can be used in filters, or when saving data into a separate file. A person marked as Favourite
is in bold letters in the Persons table and in the tree. Navigation panel allows to jump to a favourite person.Alive
option if the person is living.Always show in the edit window
option is turned on or off in the field options window. You can create new fields or edit the existing ones in fields options window.
On the Events
tab there is a list of events the person participates in. The actions panel on the right allows to create, edit and delete events; you can change the order of events if the changes do not contradict the events dates.
Documents
tab contains a list of documents connected to the person (photos, audio records, video records, document scans)
Sources links
tab contains a list of links to the sources that were used for this person.