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Personal Ancestral File Companion? i © 2000 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. First edition November 2000. English approval: 11/2000. You can print this document for help with using Perosnal Ancestral File. No part of this document may be reprinted, posted on-line, or reproduced in any form for any purpose without the prior written permission of the publisher. Send all requests for such permission to: Copyrights and Permissions Coordinator Family and Church History Department 50 East North Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400 USA Fax: 801-240-2494 FamilySearch is a trademark of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. ii Table of Contents Introduction. 1 Protecting the privacy of living people . 1 What if you have problems using the program? . 1 Using the keyboard . 2 What is Personal Ancestral File Companion?. 2 What is new? . 2 Obtaining information about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . 3 Using the online help . 4 How to obtain help with an item on a screen . 4 How to obtain help with an entire screen . 4 How to search the index of the online help file. 5 How to use the table of contents in the online help. 5 How to conduct a full-word search in the online help . 5 Managing .paf files . 6 Transferring information from another program. 7 How to create a new .paf file. 7 How to open an existing .paf file . 7 How to search for existing .paf files . 8 How to convert .paf files . 8 How to close a .paf file . 9 How to delete a .paf file . 9 How to make a backup copy . 9 How to restore a backup copy . 10 How to check and repair .paf files. 11 How to split a .paf file. 11 How to combine .paf files . 12 How to read file properties . 12 Navigating through a .paf file . 13 Symbols on the Family View screen and Pedigree View screen . 13 How to switch from one view screen to another. 13 Using the Family View screen . 14 How to move an individual to the primary position on the Family View screen . 14 Shortcuts for the Family View screen . 14 Using the Pedigree View screen . 15 About InfoBoxes . 15 How to move an individual to the primary position on the Pedigree View screen . 15 Shortcuts for the Pedigree View screen . 16 Using the Individual View screen . 16 How the program sorts names . 17 How to add columns to the Individual View screen . 17 iii Personal Ancestral File 5.0—User’s Guide How to remove columns from the Individual View screen . 17 How to change the order of columns on the Individual View screen . 17 How to sort individuals on the Individual View screen. 18 How to resize columns on the Individual View screen . 18 Shortcuts for the Individual View screen. 18 Typing diacritics and special characters . 19 How to use the character map . 19 How to use the 10-key pad to type diacritics . 19 Decimal numbers for diacritics . 20 Adding individuals and families . 21 Guidelines for adding individuals . 22 Using the Full Name field . 22 Handling unknown spouses. 22 Preference options that affect how records are added. 23 How to add an individual to a family . 24 How to add an individual who is not linked into a family . 24 How to add a family . 25 How to add a marriage record . 25 Using ditto features . 26 How to use ditto . 26 How to use Cut, Copy, and Paste. 27 Linking individuals to multiple spouses . 27 How to link an individual to another spouse . 27 How to display another spouse on the Family View screen temporarily. 28 Linking individuals to multiple parents. 28 Displaying stepchildren and adopted children . 28 How to link a child to another set of parents . 29 How to specify the primary parents . 29 How to change the parent link . 30 How to display another set of parents temporarily . 30 How to add sealing-to-parent information . 30 Guidelines for names. 31 Guidelines for event dates . 31 Guidelines for event places . 32 Guidelines for Latter-day Saint ordinance information . 34 Editing individuals and marriages . 35 How to edit individual records . 35 How to edit marriage records . 35 Changing the order of children, parents, and spouses . 36 How to change the birth order of children . 36 How to change the order of spouses . 36 How to change the order of parents. 37 Removing individuals from families . 38 How to remove an individual from a family . 38 How to unlink an individual from a set of parents . 38 iv Personal Ancestral File 5.0—User’s Guide Deleting individuals . 40 How to delete an individual. ..
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