That brings you to an options page with ten tabs representing various Reports and Charts you can produce. We will go through each one of these tabs so you can understand your options. Remember to click with your RIGHT mouse buttonon your blue or gray or whatever you have colored your bar at the bottom of your screen OUTSIDE of any program areas until you see the option to TILE WINDOWS VERTICALLY OR HORIZONTALLY. Then you can have this program working and be looking at the page as you operate your PAF program and practice each step. That would be the most effective way to learn. Look at the image below of the Reports and Charts screen. It is set at PEDIGREE. If you want it to start with someone else, click on the Search button to the right of the person's name and look for someone else in your drop down list of people entered thus far.

Also take a few moments to study the options. You can select a type of chart including a single page, a cascading pedigree, or a blank pedigree form. More on this below. Once you have pages of pedigree charts, it is a good idea to print a pedigree chart index. We will go through these various options below.

Starting Person

This option prints one or more pedigree chart(s) beginning with the person named as Starting Person. If you wish to begin the chart or charts with someone else, click Search.

Type of Chart

You can choose to print:

• Single page — essentially what you see on the screen in pedigree chart view, but including birth, marriage and death basic information
• Cascading — a series of pedigree charts, starting with the individual you chose above and going until you tell it to stop (you'll see where in just a moment).
• Blank form

Notice that if you choose the single page, there are some choices that are not available, as you can see. If you choose blank form there are still more that become unavailable.

Chart Options

You can choose to print 4, 5 or 6 generations per page.

For the rest of these options, I had to switch to a family file that held enough information for me to give you examples. If you have only entered three generations such as yourself, your parents, and your grandparents, you won't be able to print a cascading pedigree chart because you must go beyond four generations for that style to print.

But if there were a great-great-grandparent in every one of your sixteen boxes in the fifth generation, and each of them had parents identified, you would need to have cascading pedigree charts to see everyone. Actually you don't have to actually "print" to paper. You can PREVIEW the option as shown below:

The box for each individual named on the pedigree chart is "numbered" so the father of the individual in the root position is number two and the wife is number three. The great-great-grandfather at the top of the fifth generation is number sixteen (let's assume he were Sterling Goodefellow) and his wife is number seventeen (let's assume Joy Moneypenney).

If you would rather see an image of this technique on a family with many generations entered, see below using a different family than that provided in the textual example. I'm a "visual" person (meaning I like to see examples), but my husband likes text so I've tried to provide both options. Notice the red arrow that points to the Preview button. Push that and you get a form to appear on your screen. It is pretty small so you can zoom in on it. Notice the arrow point to the word "Cascading." Also see that the number 999 is circled in red meaning it can print up to 999 generations as a default. Just leave the rest of the numbers alone and it will operate as it should.

If you wanted to print a single page pedigree chart of the family line starting with Joy Moneypenny, you would answer:

Chart number of 1st chart:  If you wanted to make it as part of a series, this would be chart number three (the pedigree charts based on person number sixteen would have been chart number two and the original pedigree chart would be number one). Or you could use any numbering system you chose.

Start person is same as:  If you were following the system where each of the sixteen great-great-grandparents had a separately numbered pedigree chart, then this would be "17" if we were printing the chart for Joy Moneypenney.

on chart:  This would be "1" if this were for Joy.

If you were printing a cascading series of charts and you just wanted to print the first page and the next page—one page starting with each of the sixteen great-great-grandparents:

Starting # of continuation charts:  This would be "2" if we were counting them as just described.

Number of generations to print  This would be "10" if we wanted only the second set of pages.

The next image is an illustration of a PRINT PREVIEW screen for a cascading pedigree chart. Notice those numbers partially circled in red. I also clicked on the Zoom In button to make the page bigger. Sorry these screen shots don't look very nice. But at least you can practice on your own computer. Those numbers on the far right are chart numbers. The first one "Not Circled" is the chart 1 notation for the chart you are looking at. Daniel Foster's father and grandfathers will be on chart 2, the next number down. Hannah's will be on chart 3, but if you look at Ruth Polley, this is the end of her line in the research. More examples are following.

In the following view, I clicked on the option to look at two pages at once. So you won't be able to read the words. The page on the left is the same person who was in the previous shot, Daniel Foster. The next page is Chart 2 showing where Daniel would appear with this parents and grandparents. Thus the numbers on your far right are chart number, while numbers to the immediate right of a person's name are his or her Record ID numbers or RINs.

In the following example, we changed from a CASCADING PEDIGREE image to a SINGLE image and then clicked on the ZOOM IN button to read closer. No numbers are now at the far right of Daniel Foster's name. Just the one Chart no. 1 that is the number of the chart we are viewing. The form of chart numbering in the previous example was the Sequential Numbering explained below.

Chart Numbering

• Fixed  The above example has been assuming a fixed numbering system—the great-grandfather on the father's side is always "16" (starting with chart number "2") and the great-grandfather on the mother's side is always "24" (starting with chart number "10").
• Sequential  If you didn't have much information on the father's side, the next pedigree chart printed, if you chose a cascading series, would be number two but it might be for the great-great-grandmother in position 25.

Index Options

The PAF Help notes describe these as, "an alphabetical list of individuals within the pedigree. It contains the following information about each individual:"

• RIN
• Birth date or christening date
• Death or burial dates
• Chart position and chart number

You can choose any of the three options.

Other Options

• Include 'Prepared by'  Remember your address, phone number and other things you entered when you first set the Preferences? You can include that, or not, depending on the use of the report.
• Suppress RIN/MRINs  This was set in the preferences, as well, and I nearly always counsel students to NOT click this button. You want to see your Record ID and Marriage Record ID numbers. If you click these they don't show and it is more difficult to figure out what papers go where in your binders.
• Relationship indicators  Those are the labels which would identify each individual relative to the Root Person—if you set him or her in the preferences.
• Allow Last generation to split
  • If this box is checked and there is substantial information on a great-great-grandmother in the fifth generation, the program will try to put that husband and wife next to each other to present the greater information.
  • If this box is left unchecked, you will not get so much information but you will see the all the individuals in the traditional layout.
• Include photos  If you wish to print a photo next to each individual (for whom you have one), click here. You arrange the layout of the photos by clicking Photos on the right.
• Multiple parent indicators  indicators If an individual has more than one set of parents, a + can be printed to indicate this. Of course, the person couldn't really have more than one set of parents, but let me take myself for an example. I have my natural parents, step parents, and foster parents. I want to keep track of all of them. This is one way it can be done.