I like the fill-in-the-blank approaches to documentation that the major computer programs allow you to use. This makes the chore of entering your citations much easier, and the program will be able to pull these citations, comments, abstracts, and images right into a publishable report, booklet, or book.

There are several ways to document the sources of the information contained on this FTM page. Clicking the More button allows you to place biographical information about an individual into his More About dialog boxes. If you click the Facts button after clicking the More button, you get the screen shown on the next page. The Facts fields on this screen allow you to enter facts about a person's life. If you prefer, you can enter these facts in chronological order.

Notes entered in chronological order are most effective in the research process. Our lives and the lives of our ancestors are history. A great truth involving history is that it is a relationship of time and events in sequence. The sequence may be a simple chronology or a complicated sequence of cause and effect.

Once you have clicked on the More button, you are in an individual's More About dialog boxes. The buttons to the right, Facts, Address, Medical, Lineage, and Notes, take you to each of the dialog boxes in Family Tree Maker where you can enter additional information about an individual.