Books
This is the beginning of producing your own book about the people you've entered into this file. This page begins to organize the reproduction of the data, media, notes and sources you've accumulated.
Starting Person
This option prints a chart beginning with the person named as Starting Person. If you wish to begin the chart or charts with someone else, click Search.
Type of Book
You can choose one of two types of organization for this presentation:
- Ahnentafel This is arranged according to generations of ancestors. Each person is assigned a number according to a specific pattern, with each father given the number of twice the child and the wife of that father is given his number plus one. This is a great help in tracing generations as well as men and women. It is exactly the same numbering system as a pedigree chart.
- Modified register People in this format are numbered sequentially as they are encountered in the generational line.
Notes Options
Consider now how you want the documentation for each of these individuals to be presented. This won't print and bind a book for you but, depending upon how much information and resources you've accumulated in this file, you can print the actual pages that can be used as you produce the history you wish. You can also save everything you accumulate here so you can use a word processing program to embellish and produce the final copy.
Source notes have some of the same choices you've seen in previous reports.
- Titles only If you choose this option, you will see that the next two choices will not be available. This could be a help in organizing an outline of what you have.
- Text Click this to print (or save) the actual notes and sources you've recordedall the general notes as well as the complete citations you've included in your source notes.
- Comments This will reproduce all the comments you've created about sources.
- End of chapter If you click this, the sources (including the bibliography created from your sources) will be printed at the end of each chapter (or
the information about a specific individual). If you leave this box blank, the source material for each individual will be accumulated and presented as a single appendix.

General notes has one option you've seen. Click this box to include the general notes you've created.
- Marked (!) only Click this if you want only the notes you've created with ! as the first character of the paragraph. As you've written your notes,
you have been making conscious decisions about what to include and what to keep private. Keep in mind that, if you click this, all those paragraphs you may have createdbut forgotten to identify with !will be excluded.
- Embed Click this to have the notes embedded within the body of the text.
Below is an example of the first page of a book formated in Modified Register version from the PAF files.
Repeating Individuals
This describes how you want to present individuals who are included in more than one family.
- Eliminate Click this if you want them mentioned only once, in one context.
- Abbreviated reference If you click this, full information will be given once then, each time that individual is memtioned in another context, you want to
have minimal information given there, with a cross-reference back to the full information.
- Full repeat As the name implies, full information will be presented each time the individual is mentioned.
Other Options
- Maximum generations to print Because the default here is "32," does not mean that the program can't handle more. You may print as many generations as you wish. This is more a suggestion, it seems, because much more information than that in one book (or binder) may become too much to assimilate.
- Include indexClick this if you want an alphabetical list of everyone included to appear at the end of the report. Depending on how much horizontal space you have on the page, the index prints anywhere from a single column on a narrow portrait layout, to three columns on a legal landscape layout. By default, two columns print for the index.
- Suppress RIN/MRINs (As discussed, this is turned on or off in Preferences.) If you DO NOT want the numbering system the computer created to be part of the book, click this box.
- Display relationship indicators Keep in mind that you are probably not writing a book based on the initial individual in this file. You have probably chosen a parent or grandparent (or older). This book is to be about that individual. As a result, you may want to include reference to that relationship.
- Each generation on a new page This will create a page break between generationslike a new chapter.
- Include photos This is relatively self-explanitory. If you are making a book, you probably want to include the photos you've accumulated and scanned.
- Multiple parent indicators This will include a coding (and explanation) for those who have more than one set of parents.
- Include "other" events If you have created additional events (military service, education, probate, etc.) for source notes, these will be included if this is clicked.
- Confidential notes (~) and events Click this if you want to keep confidential the general notes where the first character in the paragraph is a ~ or you have clicked the "confidential" box in new events in source notes.
- Include LDS data Click this box if you have entered ordinance date and you want that included.
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